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Firefox is by no means a good browser. None are today, web is a horrible technology domain. It's no worse than competitors, but it is free and open and using it is a token of support for the free and open web (and Internet).
 
Zare said:
Firefox is by no means a good browser. None are today, web is a horrible technology domain. It's no worse than competitors, but it is free and open and using it is a token of support for the free and open web (and Internet).
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It's funny - Now it's back again. Ah well, at least I pull my ad weight through the phone, half of the time I'm on it anyway.
 
Zare said:
Firefox is by no means a good browser. None are today, web is a horrible technology domain. It's no worse than competitors, but it is free and open and using it is a token of support for the free and open web (and Internet).
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What's wrong with Firefox? It does what it's supposed to do for me.
 
Perun said:
What's wrong with Firefox? It does what it's supposed to do for me.
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Everything and nothing at once. It is not relevant to the browser comparison itself, as much as how the platform and the tools (d)evolved through the years.

Firefox's engine, Gecko, uses less resources than Chromium's Blink. Chrome is faster, more secure due to "sandboxing" (isolation of processes running some webpage so that malicious content from that page cannot propagate), wastes a lot more memory in the process.

In year 2003 using this forum required several megabytes of RAM and a mediocre share of an old CPU, disk, and so on.

In 2021 we're still using this forum as people used it in 2003. Post and read a bunch of content in a structured format. Yet now it requires hundreds of MB of ram and a significant portion of a modern CPU.

So in a way all browsers (have to) suck.
 
In that case, I think it's not fair to say the browser is bad, but the technological framework is.

Or in other words, it's a systemic problem.

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Yes that would be correct. They all suffer from systemic issues but Firefox isn't owned by someone whose core bussiness is gathering private data and product placement. The systemic issues stem from the fact that standards are made by actors whose business is elsewhere, and the Web is just a gold mine.

P.S. I didn't say it's bad, I said it's not good :) Firefox is ok.
 
Zare said:
P.S. I didn't say it's bad, I said it's not good :) Firefox is ok.
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Fully understood your point, don't worry. I was just interested in your criticism because I've been using FF for 15 years or more and never had any problems with it.
 
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