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  • Libb@jlai.lutoFirefox@lemmy.ml•6 reasons why you should forget Chrome and use Firefox
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    3 months ago

    While Firefox is a completely separate entity from Chrome, Mozilla does recognize that some things are better off standardized. So if you’re worried about your extensions not working on Firefox, that shouldn’t be a problem.

    ?!? What does that even mean?

    Most people will understand that as ‘my chrome extensions will work on FF’ or as ‘my chrome extensions are also available for FF’, which is not true. There are alternatives, yes, but there is real probability they will not find an exact alternative to whatver their most important chrome extension is. Yeah, there are also much better extensions available on FF (looking at you, my dearest and unrivalled uBO) but people usually don’t give a crap about that, or they would have ditched Chrome already.

    I am all from promoting FF but not by using so large an… approximations. I almost wrote ‘lies’ but those are not exactly lies, they’re just missing the whole point by trying to make things (uselessly) look better than they are.

    Edit: clarifications.

  • Libb@jlai.lutoFirefox@lemmy.ml•Magic Lasso suggests that Chrome might be the new IE
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    3 months ago

    Your source is missing a bunch of chromium-based browsers to add up to 100%, and there’s no methodology or statistics explanation.

    FFS… I listed the first four results of the first web search result I got. Also, may I remind you that me quoting only the four first results (unfiltered) of a longer list doesn’t change a thing on the ranking: on those 4 firsts (aka, the browsers occupying the 1st to the 4th places, aka the ones ranked before the 5th, 6th places and so on), two of them are not Chromium-based. That’s all I was saying.

    For the rest:

    1. Feel free to quote other sources, obviously. I would be happy to see other numbers with some more of that ‘methodology or statistics explanation’ you’re talking about.
    2. Have a nice day.
  • Libb@jlai.lutoFirefox@lemmy.ml•Celebrating 20 years of Firefox
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    4 months ago

    No, I did not see that. Thx! That’s clever.

    BTW, I loved this old t-rex logo and felt, well, if not betrayed quite disgruntled the day they replaced it. Loved it so much that occasionally I still wear my old Mozilla ‘Take back the web’ t-shirts, the ones with the t-rex printed on a red star. It’s as cool today as it ever was, if you were to ask me :p

  • Libb@jlai.lutoFirefox@lemmy.ml•Celebrating 20 years of Firefox
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    4 months ago

    I’ve been using Firefox since it was called Netscape, and before that I was using Mosaic. Nowadays, I’m also using Safari (and Vivaldi) but I still can’t imagine not using FF as my default browser. More exactly, FF with the uBO extension, which is another nice gift to all of us — a bit like FF pop-up blocker was back then.

    I would have loved if they had released an anniversary icon for FF. Too bad they did not, but that’s probably just me getting old, all nostalgic and sentimental :p

  • Libb@jlai.lutoFirefox@lemmy.ml•How to Switch From Chrome to Firefox (and Why You Should)
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    6 months ago

    Sorry, I can’t switch to Firefox, as I’ve never not used Firefox.
    I used it already when it was called Netscape. Before that I used Mosaic, which itself is not entirely stranger to Netscape creation.

    Also, FF is not “a great alternative to Google Chrome”. FF is a great browser in its own right. (Almost) always has been. And how could it be considered an alternative to anything when it was there first (or second, right after Mosaic)?