The lack of any ad blockers on mobile chrome is what personally made me switch.
Trying to read basically any news article on your phone without an ad blocker is a nearly impossible task these days.
this post was submitted on 04 Aug 2023
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The lack of any ad blockers on mobile chrome is ~~what personally made me switch~~ why I'll never switch, unless I have a gun pointed at my head.
Are you certain risking death isn't preferable? I heard Firefox also teaches you krav maga if needed.
@deersindal I have a paid lifetime subscription to Adguard, so ads aren't a thing on my phone at all, for pretty much any app.
NextDNS has been working fine for me and it's free.
Same here. I've never had an issue with Adguard or any reason not to trust it but because it's a small Russian company dealing with encryption I don't feel comfortable openly recommending it. I personally think it's great and run it everywhere.
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I switched back to Firefox about a week ago too. Mostly because Lemmy is a whore for it.
Oh man time for my little rant. Long time Firefox supporter and still use it on desktop, but I had to uninstall on Android. It reloads the tab every time I switch out and back to it. It just kills me. Especially since I pay for Kagi search, and it's nearly doubling my search count by reloadng all the damn time. So now I'm using Privacy Browser on Android, and it's great, bit I'd rather be on Firefox. There are threads asking for a fix from years ago and it's still a problem
I didn't know that Firefox for android will reload tab. That's why my voyager app keep reloading some images.
Anyway, for the time being, my immediate solution is to install 'Stop Auto Reload' addon (possible by using Firefox nightly custom add on collection). Still early to tell but so far it doesn't reload the images.
Thanks for the tip! I might give that a go
Does Kagi give better results than Google? If so, how consistently?
Honestly, it's hard to say. I'm using it partly on principle as part of degoogling. I will say it's ahead of all the other alternatives I've tried (DDG, Qwant, Startpage, Mojeek etc).
You don't get Google suggestions and that's moslty a good thing IMO although I sometimes miss getting a currency conversion or dictionary item answered without having to visit a site. Generally the results are as good as Google but Wikipedia or something is more likely to be top rather than buried under some spammy results.
You can try 100 searches or something for free, give it a go
It has currency conversion, but it expects specific format 
IIRC Startpage is just an alternative frontend for Google, so it being better than Startpage would make it better than Google.
i've been having issues with autofilling credentials from saved passwords on firefox android
This is well known problem, you need to restart the phone itself or kill the services.. I don't know why they haven't fix this yet for such long time
Definitely doesn't happen for me, that's annoying.
Does Firefox focus face the same issue?
I find DuckDuckGo for Android is a decent option, albeit chromium based.
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Good. Let's all enjoy Firefox while we can, before WEI becomes mandatory for all top 500 web sites.
Good decision! :) Yay for one more user!
Welcome back!
There were points at which Firefox was difficult to stick with, especially after the extension apocalypse, but I think it's evolving pretty well at this point.
I migrated to Firefox last week both pc and mobile. The android version is not as fast as other chromium based browsers but the ability to install any add-on is a must for me, browsing the web without my essential extensions is impossible for me.
I previously used kiwi browser that supports extensions but i found they were buggy sometimes, specially static filters in ublock origin.
uBO has all you need, ClearURLs is not needed. Use these filter lists instead:
Also, Badger does the same as uBO, therefore you don't need it. The same thing goes for cookies. Use default Annoyances lists (Adguard + EasyList) and add that:
You have a new list in uBO for the cookies banner.
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What should have pushed you over the edge is that one is open source and the other isn't. You do not control what Chrome does
I switched back to Firefox about a year ago after wandering the wastes of Chromium land. I love it!
I still use Ungoogled Chromium for work with the same extensions that i use in Firefox.
I know firefox has profiles, but firewalling work from personal stuff in Firefox is tedious, whereas i can use Velja (or similar) to target URL patterns to particular browsers.
I'm personally using Firefox multi-account containers. It's way better than switching to profiles.
I have for example one container type for work and for specific URL i even made it so they are always opened in this containers. It's really useful as cookies are separated.
I'm coupling it with Simple Tab Groups where I can group tabs together based on criterias (For example all tabs running in my "work" container). At the beginning of my work day I switch to my "work" group and all my tabs on my window are work related and at the end I switch back to my "personal" group with my usual tabs.
It's a bit more work but lets me be completely chromium free :)
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I did the same a while back. Youtube with ublock origin is awesome!
Genuinely curious, and I intend to switch back in the near future, but I’ve also been using chrome for years now with uBlock and YouTube has remained ad-less to this day. Has something changed recently?
I ditched Gmail and chrome last year after a long ride. Feels great to be back.
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Welcome back!
Am I dumb or does chrome (both desktop and mobile) lack a simple way to clear all data on close? Like what the actual fuck? Both firefox and edge have an easy to find checkbox to do this...but not chrome?
welcome back. not all but most of us had moment in time when something was trigger to return back to firefox, making it the new browsing-home and enjoying it since.
Which extension?
Edge did the same shit tome a few times btw. It's chrome with a different paint job.
Samesame a month back!
I suspect I'll be ditching Opera on desktop/Android for FF as soon as the manifest V3 changes make it to opera and kill ad blocking. Shouldn't be long now.
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Could this possibly be a solution to your shortcuts not opening in a new window? https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1287367
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