• Firefox offers better privacy and security than Chrome, with upcoming support for 200 new add-ons. • While Chrome dominates, Firefox gains ground with user-friendly browsing experience and open-source model. • Mozilla’s focus on user privacy and transparency challenges Google’s ad-centric approach, making Firefox a viable alternative.

    • SeedyOneEnglish
      26•7 months ago

      It’s still there, it’s just off by default since people rarely use it these days.

      Go to Customize Firefox controls, buttons and toolbars. Pick the Home button or whatever else you want on the toolbar, and just drag it up there. Some items might be in the overflow menu on the right.

      • @TheHorseWhistlerEnglish
        15•7 months ago

        What’s the use case for a home button? Why not just set the default url for new tabs?

        • @[email protected]English
          6•7 months ago

          I guess, it’s so you can make your current tab navigate to the home-page rather than closing the tab and opening a new one…

        • @[email protected]English
          -1•7 months ago

          I can’t comprehend how someone can be able to self host something but not able to find literally the first configurable option on the “home” settings page.

            • John RichardEnglish
              -2•7 months ago

              This is one of the reasons I still use Chromium primarily. Firefox fanatics are just too much like cult members. You can point out real issues to them, like that Firefox was slow to implement hardware-accelerated video decoding on Linux, or that Firefox also enables a bunch of telemetry by default… but half of their identity is based on using Firefox, so they take it personally. I’d love to have a technical discussion with some of these Firefox cultists, but to be honest most of them will just resort to ad-hominem attacks because that is the only argument they have.

        • @[email protected]English
          2•7 months ago

          You can literally customise it to show the home button. I know because I have done this.

            • @[email protected]English
              4•7 months ago

              Ah I see what you mean. Yeah I even had a quick look at the beta version where you are able to access the about:config and I couldn’t find an obvious config setting for this either. Firefox on mobile definitely isn’t perfect and especially if you have a specific use case. Just a suggestion that may be an alternative for you: if you press settings then add to home screen, does that hone screen shortcut work for you?

                • @[email protected]English
                  1•7 months ago

                  Yeah I understand. For something you use so actively you want it to be as seamless as possible. Maybe have another look at the “install to home screen” option though! I think you can do it on Chrome too btw. But I believe it should actually open as a seperate “app” on your phone.

                  So instead of having 1 browser app that contains whatever you’re browsing + your dashboard, you could have 1 app for browsing + 1 “app” for your dashboard. It would allow you to even close down your browsing while always having an open dashboard. Maybe it doesn’t fit your flow but it seems like an option worth considering if you haven’t already.