My biggest concern with Firefox is that Google continues to make people’s life hard. There have already been instances of things loading slowly because of crippled standards that only work on Chrome, or features like in-page translate only being available in Chromium based browsers.
Overall I’ve really enjoyed using it for the past 15 years or so, but it’s definitely had periods of very rocky performance
By design of course. That’s the problem with trying to protect yourself online. The major players who fund themselves through your information will do whatever is necessary to keep you in their ecosystem.
That usually means have to deal with bugs or some form of forced incompatibility.
Putting your privacy and data first will require that kind of sacrifice and only the end user can decide whether it is worth it or not.
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My biggest concern with Firefox is that Google continues to make people’s life hard. There have already been instances of things loading slowly because of crippled standards that only work on Chrome, or features like in-page translate only being available in Chromium based browsers.
Overall I’ve really enjoyed using it for the past 15 years or so, but it’s definitely had periods of very rocky performance
The biggest example of this is YouTube. Sometimes it runs fine but sometimes videos just don’t load or freeze.
By design of course. That’s the problem with trying to protect yourself online. The major players who fund themselves through your information will do whatever is necessary to keep you in their ecosystem.
That usually means have to deal with bugs or some form of forced incompatibility.
Putting your privacy and data first will require that kind of sacrifice and only the end user can decide whether it is worth it or not.