cross-posted from: https://feddit.uk/post/2514293
- Mozilla’s goals for the web line up quite nicely with my own.
- The performance is good for what I want.
- The extension API is more powerful than Chrome’s.
- Outside of the Apple ecosystem, it’s the last major alternative to the Chrome skins.
- It isn’t actively trying to cripple adblockers.
Is not chromium, has a good UI, supports manifest v2, is open source and have native support for autoscrolling on linux
It’s not Chrome or Chromium derived. Google has incentives to mine me for data. Mozilla, not so much. I don’t trust Mozilla completely, but I certainly trust them more than Google to have my best interest at heart.
Mozilla is mostly funded by Google:
There are other reasons, but if I had to point only one word: containers.
Switched to Chrome a few years back when Firefox killed XUL and bundled too much bloatware.
Now I’ve switched back to Firefox because it’s good again and Google is doing too many evil things lately (Web Integrity).