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• Firefox offers better privacy and security than Chrome, with upcoming support for 200 new add-ons. • While Chrome dominates, Firefox gains ground with user-friendly browsing experience and open-source model. • Mozilla's focus on user privacy and transparency challenges Google's ad-centric approach, making Firefox a viable alternative.

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[–] stifle867@programming.dev 50 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (26 children)

I've been using Firefox on desktop and mobile exclusively for a number of years now. I will say the experience isn't perfect but it's better than using a browser made by a company that is actively hostile to its users.

It is important to take note that you will experience issues with some websites. For example, https://astro.build/ Try scrolling quickly up and down on this page on Firefox vs Chrome (on mobile).

[–] Scolding7300@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (7 children)

What were the main pain points?

[–] teichflamme@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Not OP but one thing I am missing, especially in mobile, is grouping tabs.

Chrome auto groups your tabs, so if I open 5 Amazon links looking for something they are already sorted.

For some reason Firefox doesn't seem to get this feature

[–] Scolding7300@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I agree, although I forgot that feature ecists in Chromium based ones

[–] rambaroo@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How do you turn that on? I can manually create tab groups but chrome never auto-groups tabs on my Mac at work

[–] teichflamme@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

To be honest, I have not used this on desktop, but it's the default on mobile.

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