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Is Firefox still good ? (aussie.zone)

submitted 5 months ago by RedCarCastle@aussie.zone to c/technology@lemmy.world

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To the people, is Firefox still the go to browser? Is there something better out there for the average person? I've heard good things about internet explorer.

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[–] GreenSofaBed@lemmy.zip 94 points 5 months ago

Yes.

[–] dinckelman@lemmy.world 59 points 5 months ago (2 children)

First of all, I'd really love to know who told you anything, let alone good, about IE.

If anything, Firefox is in the best spot it's ever been. Any time I've encountered an issue with it, it was because Google are actively crippling the web experience for the rest of the internet

[–] iAmTheTot@kbin.social 11 points 5 months ago

They may mean Edge.

[–] jeffw@lemmy.world 45 points 5 months ago

Internet Explorer is pretty much dead, replaced by Edge. Edge is better than the early days when Explorer was a joke but I still prefer Firefox by a mile

Inb4 a crypto bro recommends Brave

[–] Brkdncr@lemmy.world 30 points 5 months ago

Don’t feed the troll.

[–] Muscar@discuss.online 18 points 5 months ago

Still the best IMO, and how is it not for the average person? It's just as fully featured and easy to use as anything else.

[–] Boozilla@lemmy.world 11 points 5 months ago

It's my daily driver. There are a few sites that don't work well with it, but those are very rare in my experience. Latest one to break on me was State Farm. And so what. Fuck State Farm.

[–] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 10 points 5 months ago (1 children)

There are only two browsers now, chrome(ium) and firefox. Everything else is one of those with some changes.

Firefox based is usually the way to go if you want to avoid anything Google related.

Otherwise, they're on par with each other, imo.

[–] Drusenija@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Isn't Safari WebKit which is different again? Or is that a chromium base as well? (I realise you can't exactly choose Safari unless you have Apple stuff, but I thought it was its own thing).

[–] Bipta@kbin.social 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Safari is different from Chromium and Firefox but not widely available and pretty similar to Chromium in being webkit-based.

[–] palordrolap@kbin.social 1 points 5 months ago

Some Linux packages have WebKit as a dependency and that often has something called MiniBrowser installed as, well, precisely what it says it is. Not sure if it's available on Windows, but it's OK in a pinch.

There are a few other lesser known browsers, not in the main families, that are currently in development too.

[–] RmDebArc_5@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 months ago

Originally there was KHTML, developed by KDE for the konquerer browser. This was then forked by Apple to WebKit which is used by safari and gnome web. Google then forked WebKit to blink, the browser engine chromium uses.

[–] frizop@lemmy.world 9 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Yes, but just plain firefox

[–] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 7 points 5 months ago (2 children)

As opposed to what? Chocolate Firefox?

[–] Num10ck@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

i have a firefox extension called stylebot that lets you select the colors of anything on any webpage. dont like the scheme of a page you visit often? make it your own. my youtube background is now a lovely chocolate brown. my pandora is all grey with a hint of teal.

[–] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 4 points 5 months ago

I use darkreader for the same reason. My eyes like it.

[–] knightly@pawb.social -1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

knockoffs like Brave

[–] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 3 points 5 months ago

That is a chrome derivative, not Firefox

[–] stealth_cookies@lemmy.ca 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Nah, Floorp is Firefox with the features Firefox is missing.

[–] RmDebArc_5@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 months ago

Doesn’t floorp have some weird licensing thing going on?

[–] darcmage@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Firefox has been my preferred browser since 0.9. But whenever I help set up a relative's or friend's computer, I always install chrome as the default browser. With the lack of adherence to web standards and most sites only testing against chrome, it just makes chrome/chromium the obvious choice if you don't want to deal with the occasional breakage.

[–] iAmTheTot@kbin.social 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I've used Firefox daily for probably a decade now and I can think of a single website it's ever not worked properly with that entire time.

[–] darcmage@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

That's great and all but if your experience was typical, Mozilla wouldn't have created webcompat.com and it wouldn't be as busy as it appears to be. We can probably work around such issues but I wouldn't expect non-techies to do the same.

[–] iAmTheTot@kbin.social 3 points 5 months ago

Eh, I'm gonna be honest, I just don't see it as an issue that justifies not putting it on other people's computers, as the original comment was about.

And I just tried to recreate a few issues from that site, and personally can't. Sure, I know, anecdotal, but I just strongly feel like it's a flimsy reason to not recommend it to a friend or relative.

[–] RedCarCastle@aussie.zone 3 points 5 months ago

Thanks legends

[–] helpImTrappedOnline@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

IE is the best!

Unrelated, would you mind taking a few facebook quizzes and how's your bank accound doing?

[–] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

What about cars? Does Lemmy like cars now?

[–] RedCarCastle@aussie.zone 1 points 5 months ago

What is cars?