And since you won’t be able to modify web pages, it will also mean the end of customization, either for looks (ie. DarkReader, Stylus), conveniance (ie. Tampermonkey) or accessibility.

The community feedback is… interesting to say the least.

  • @teamevil
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    421 year ago

    I never understood why anyone left Firefox…it’s great

    • @Saneless
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      241 year ago

      Back when RAM wasn’t in the gigabytes for everyone, it just started bloating tabs and usage like crazy. Chrome handled it better and faster

      Things have flipped, where Chromium is super bloated

    • @[email protected]
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      91 year ago

      I loved it around 20 years ago, but somewhere towards the mid-to-late 00’s it got bloated and slow. It was like that probably until recently if i’m being honest. I heard it’s maybe better now but i’m not sure.

      • Lev_Astov
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        101 year ago

        They really started trying to catch up to chrome several years ago and have succeeded recently.

      • SokathHisEyesOpen
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        It got better years ago. I stopped using it around the late 00’s myself because it was consuming all of my RAM. But I started using it again about 5 years ago and it’s better than chrome now.

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        • ЛRMAN0989
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          31 year ago

          I bailed from Firefox for about a year after they added the godawful Firefox button (4.0 maybe?); then I got fed up with Chrome and by that point there was an extension to remove the Firefox button

          • @[email protected]
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            11 year ago

            What’s the Firefox button? I don’t use any extension to remove it, but I also don’t see any button tied to FF itself that I need to remove.

      • @RufusFirefly
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        21 year ago

        I used it up to the early 2000’s and it just seemed to slow down. I recently did a series of synthetic benchmarks on all the browsers and Firefox was the slowest of the batch. It’s still the only browser left not built on chromium I think. Opera GX was the fastest in terms of benchmarking.

        • @[email protected]
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          11 year ago

          Ahh that’s unfortunate. I remember sometime within the past couple years or so, people were talking about some “big new update” for FF that supposedly made it better. I tried it, and it was very slow, offputtingly so. So i take everything with a grain of salt now.

      • @teamevil
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        11 year ago

        I never switched away and can say it’s even better now, especially with Unlock origins.

    • @[email protected]
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      21 year ago

      Because it never used to update plugins, and left my PC open to infection one time. Probably due to Java or one of the Macromedia ones.

      Plus if one tab died, the who browser exploded with it. Chrome didn’t do that.

      Plugins are dead now, so I came back.