A little admiration of how easy UI customization is on Firefox, and how shitty Chromium looks.

  • Count Regal Inkwell@pawb.social
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    8 months ago

    Source: One person’s opinion on their personal Fediverse account

    … Not that I disagree, mind. I’ve been on FF since like. 2007? Which was the moment I figured out that other web browsers besides IE7 existed?

    Never saw reason to hop to Chrome(ium) even before I knew/cared about datamining or enshittification or any of that stuff. Back then it just looked like “another browser, that does things a bit different but has no features that entice me that Firefox lacks”. Then as I learned about the political side of things I was like “Huh, guess I’m glad for myself then!”

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      8 months ago

      I used Netscape “back in the day”. With some interim transition attempts including the likes of Opera, I eventually switched to Chrome because it was genuinely more featureful and faster.

      I was a happy Chrome user until they decided to deprecate manifest V2 and fuck up my ad blocker, at which point I switched to Firefox and haven’t looked back.

      Everything in this industry is circular I guess.

      • neutron
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        8 months ago

        I used Opera when it used Presto instead of becoming a yet another chromium. I miss that one.

    • abbenm@lemmy.ml
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      8 months ago

      What would you consider an authoritative source on if something looks nice?