To all fleeing from Firefox due to their tone-deaf AI fumblings, please don’t move to a Chromium-based browser.
Diversity in browser engines is critical for an open web. We must avoid a monopoly at all costs.
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All 5 items on Vale.Rocks categorised with the tag 'Firefox'. Content relating to the web browser developed by Mozilla.
In the same vein as Internet Explorer and Netscape Navigator, I propose some renamings:
- Safari Surfer
- Chromium Cruiser
- Firefox Forager
- Edge Envoy
- Vivaldi Voyager
Given the recent hubbub regarding Firefox, I know a lot of people are looking for another browser.
I want to take this opportunity to remind you that almost everything out there is based on Chromium and that this gives Google a dangerous power over our web. Google has a near-complete monopoly – don’t play into it.
https://vale.rocks/posts/everything-is-chrome
Further on this topic, I see a lot of people switching to Vivaldi, which, as well as being built on Chromium, isn’t fully open source.
https://vivaldi.com/blog/technology/why-isnt-vivaldi-browser-open-source/
Switched over to using the vertical sidebar in Firefox today. It’s lovely!
I pretty much exclusively browse CodePen on Chrome, despite Firefox being my primary browser.
Mozilla, you need to catch up.