I donate to the Mozilla foundation, and I love Firefox a ton. But I can’t seem to like the UI by installing a theme, and when I change it to look better the browser slows to a crawl. Does it really matter all that much if I use Chromium?

P.S. To the people from my last post regarding something similar, Firefox was too slow, I’m sorry, but I use Vivaldi instead of Brave because Brendon Eich can suck my dick.

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Use what you like and don’t give a fuck about strangers on the internet deem the holy grail of browsers.

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Same applies to alot of things online and offline such as movies books video games music operating systems art and so on best to male your own mind on things

Temple os is good stay mad glowies and libruls

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You have a wording problem at the end of your comment, but exactly.

Like what you like, if something works for you and you’re fine with it or like it, what you enjoy shouldn’t matter to some fanboy

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Exactly that is what i was going for make your own opinion on things. Internet and people be dammed if you like to watch a terrifically bad b movie or like a certain kind of comedy then you should make your own informed opinion on that thing

You can like a movie or a book or something and still acknowledge all its faults aswell

What I said at the end was a joke a shitpost not a “wording problem” it’s not a serious take I can assure you that lol

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Same energy as “I’m not interested in politics”.

Then don’t complain when Google forces their view of internet on everyone else.

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You should, however, give a fuck about the implications of using said browsers, which “strangers on the internet” make you aware of, for good reason.

Nobody is just being bullied into choosing a specific browser. People are passionate about this because what browsers people use shapes the web and how we all use it. And since so many services aren’t even available outside the web, that can have a huge impact on our collective lives as a whole.

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The average person won’t give a fuck about the implications of using said browsers, which “strangers on the internet” make them aware of.

I never implied that people were being bullied into using a specific browser, just that people shouldn’t give a fuck if they post a picture of their desktop and someone bitches about them using Chrome and starts circlejerking Firefox/Brave/[Insert Browser Here].

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The average person won’t give a fuck

Yes that’s part of the problem

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FF is totally broken for me when I try to use anything Google or Cloudflare related for some reason. With cloudflare, I’m in a human verification loop and with Google I get the message “This browser or app may not be secure”, in a regular window or private window. This is Ubuntu 22.04. Works fine in chrome. Only browser plug-in I use is KeePassXC, and disabling it doesn’t resolve the issue. Disabling pfblocker-ng at my router also did not solve the issue.

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Flatpak or Snap?

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Repo. I had to abandon the default snap install because it was sandboxed, and I need the KPXC plugin to be able to communicate with KPXC for login autofill.

And for reference, this is FF119.

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Weird. I only asked because I’ve ran across posts of that happening to the snap and flatpak versions but haven’t seen anything about repo versions.

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Anecdotal, and I am a Windows idiot, but I’ve never had a problem like this with Firefox in my life. People always talk about how slow it is and how half the internet doesn’t work on it but I’ve personally never had a single problem. It’s just worked perfectly out of the box since the very beginning.

Makes me wonder what the difference is.

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Weird, they all work fine for me. Some cookies thing?

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Private browser, wiped local data. I have no idea what the problem is.

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Have you tried creating a new, clean profile? You can do so with about:profiles.

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I’ll give that a shot when I get home.

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This fixed the issue. Thanks for the suggestion!

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Use whatever browser works best for you. It is kind of dumb to stick to something you do not like just because of ideology.

That said both Firefox and Chromium based browsers have pros and cons, there is no best one. My primary browser at home is Firefox, at work I use Edge, I like both. Some time ago tried to fully move from Firefox to Vivaldi, but went back due to couple things that I preferred on FF.

Your main problem is probably 6GB physical memory. At least on Windows 10+ I would not be comfortable with less than 16GB. Hope you at least have SSD.

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I use Linux, so system memory usage shouldn’t be an issue

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Every now and then I just force myself to use different browsers just to see if I like them more or if there are some features I like. For now I have always returned to Firefox because it just works for me best, but I have also really enjoyed Vivald when I have tried it and I could easily also use it as my main browser.

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as much as I like firefox, it runs like crap on Android. Performance is just not quite there (yet)

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Use Firefox daily at work on three different smartphones over the years and never had any performance issues. In fact, it was usually much faster.

Can’t say I know what’s going on.

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What are you running into? Performance for me is more or less the same between both. I’m on a Pixel 4a but also running pihole and ublock so maybe that speeds things.

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Use what you prefer, except brave, they can go fuck themselves.

Firefox works great for me, but I have OP hardware.

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I prefer Brave

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