> downloads desktop app
> looks inside
> it's a webpage with a dedicated browser
(Web 2.0 and it's consequences...)
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Why I dislike web apps. They make the devs lazy enough to not bother making a native app
Why even make a desktop app at this point? I get doing that if it has some inherent advantage over the web version, but why go through the trouble of making another program if it's just gonna be the same but in electron?
Think of all that lovely data and tracking you can slurp up when unconstrained by the browser sandbox.
Firefox works great.
download firefox
look inside
80% of mozilla revenue is from google
You can't escape
Who cares where the revenue comes from? There's no google spyware in there, and it's competition, that's what really matters.
I just don't like that we're relying on the goodwill (or need for token "competition" to try to avoid antitrust) of Google for Mozilla to stick around, an ad company shouldn't be de facto controlling almost every single browser
Download Firefox
Change default search engine
Problem solved 😁
Even if the Mozilla foundation went bankrupt tomorrow, Firefox would persist. It might not be as quick to update, but it’s an open source project that people will keep working on, regardless of the money.
Nah
Firefox and Forks, or perish.
If you're not a fan of Firefox right now, with the few odd decisions they've been making, try Floorp or Zen. They're quite good forks of Firefox and don't seem to have any of the recent Firefox oddness in them.
I shall not stoop so low as to using a browser named ""floorp"".
is there a way to force dark mode like in chromium? #enable-force-dark has been a life saver for me. I have a TBI and white screens are physically painful. I keep trying to go back to FireFox, but none of the darkmode addons seem to have this kind of always on, no exceptions kind of feature
So, you haven't used the "Dark Reader" extension on Firefox. It has "automatic", "scheduled", "system default" options. Also you can disable or enable dark mode for specific websites.
I don't need the ability to disable I need it to be always on no matter what. This is exactly the extention I was complaining about. This one doesnt work on extentions.firefox.org
There are no addons at all that can change the look of the firefox extension page; it is protected by the browser.
That is why I can't use firefox it is not accessible. My disability is not taken seriously by the Mozilla Foundation.
Try This one: https://github.com/ThomazPom/Moz-Ext-UltimaDark
same problem
It work for me on every website.
thorium/vivaldi and firefox are cool
I haven't checked out Vivaldi in a long time due to the distaste of what happened to Opera and I did not see any of Opera in Vivaldi. Has Vivaldi captured the magic that was Opera 12.04 yet?
vivaldi is nice feature packed and pretty fast
Ugh just looked. It's still chromium
proprietary, btw
I still prefer FF or Vivaldi over Google Chrome. Yes Vivaldi is Open Source Chromium, but at least it doesn't have the Chrome crap in it.
Vivaldi contains Chromium, but it isn't itself open-source, by the way.
They say of themselves that "for all practical purposes the Vivaldi source code is available for audit". I would not fully agree with that either, but I guess, at that point the open-source purists have already lost interest anyways.
https://help.vivaldi.com/desktop/privacy/is-vivaldi-open-source/
There are two browsers, chrome and FF.
It feels very weird to say but
I think maybe
the world was better when Trident existed??
SILENCE THIS HERETIC!
Three if you count Webkit/Safari
I don't think I can install it on my android phone, so I don't count it
IIRC the Steam browser also uses WebKit tho
Not since 2014, where they switched to blink (chromium)
But what about mobile? I started using FF and I have to admit that Chrome is a better mobile experience. Brave isn't for me either.
Edit: lol I'm sorry my experience doesn't match yours and I chose to ask a question.
Firefox has ad blockers on mobile.
That immediately makes the mobile web useable again.
FF mobile is slow
The Reddit hive mind behaviour is seeping through the cracks.
For me personally, the experience is allowed to take a hit, hell even a major hit, if the browser respects me as a user. FF seems to be better on that front although I'll confess I use Vanadium on my phone. Its GrapheneOS' default browser.
"Everyone that doesn't share my specific preferences is a sheep (╯° □°） ╯"
What's preventing me, a private user, from just creating my own web browser? it's a program like any other that just needs to be able to access each websites' server and display its files right? You can't tell me that nobody else has ever wanted to make their own alternative, so why do we never hear about them?
Plenty of alternative to Chromium already exist, not all good.