Technology @lemmy.world RedCarCastle @aussie.zone 1mo ago

Is Firefox still good ?

To the people, is Firefox still the go to browser? Is there something better out there for the average person? I've heard good things about internet explorer.

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Yes.
First of all, I'd really love to know who told you anything, let alone good, about IE.

If anything, Firefox is in the best spot it's ever been. Any time I've encountered an issue with it, it was because Google are actively crippling the web experience for the rest of the internet
- They may mean Edge.
- Unless you're using android where on tablets it still doesn't support multi tab browsing but is an overblown phone app.
  
  doesn't support multi tab browsing
  
  What do you mean? Having multiple tabs open at once?
  
  What do you mean by multi-tab browsing.
  
  I've used Firefox on Android tablets and while it does have a "phone app" UX to it, it works fine; specifically tabbed browsing is not an issue.
  
  What version are you using? Firefox Beta for Android supports multi-tabs on both tablet and phone.
  
  You got me there, it is really frustrating that I have to open Edge if I want to have two tabs open at the same time.
  
  Can't say I've had experience with that, but I believe you
Internet Explorer is pretty much dead, replaced by Edge. Edge is better than the early days when Explorer was a joke but I still prefer Firefox by a mile

Inb4 a crypto bro recommends Brave
Don’t feed the troll.
Still the best IMO, and how is it not for the average person? It's just as fully featured and easy to use as anything else.
It's my daily driver. There are a few sites that don't work well with it, but those are very rare in my experience. Latest one to break on me was State Farm. And so what. Fuck State Farm.
There are only two browsers now, chrome(ium) and firefox. Everything else is one of those with some changes.

Firefox based is usually the way to go if you want to avoid anything Google related.

Otherwise, they're on par with each other, imo.
- Isn't Safari WebKit which is different again? Or is that a chromium base as well? (I realise you can't exactly choose Safari unless you have Apple stuff, but I thought it was its own thing).
  
  Safari is different from Chromium and Firefox but not widely available and pretty similar to Chromium in being webkit-based.
  
  Originally there was KHTML, developed by KDE for the konquerer browser. This was then forked by Apple to WebKit which is used by safari and gnome web. Google then forked WebKit to blink, the browser engine chromium uses.
Yes, but just plain firefox
- As opposed to what? Chocolate Firefox?
  
  i have a firefox extension called stylebot that lets you select the colors of anything on any webpage. dont like the scheme of a page you visit often? make it your own. my youtube background is now a lovely chocolate brown. my pandora is all grey with a hint of teal.
  
  knockoffs like Brave
- Nah, Floorp is Firefox with the features Firefox is missing.
  
  Doesn’t floorp have some weird licensing thing going on?
Firefox has been my preferred browser since 0.9. But whenever I help set up a relative's or friend's computer, I always install chrome as the default browser. With the lack of adherence to web standards and most sites only testing against chrome, it just makes chrome/chromium the obvious choice if you don't want to deal with the occasional breakage.
- I've used Firefox daily for probably a decade now and I can think of a single website it's ever not worked properly with that entire time.
  
  That's great and all but if your experience was typical, Mozilla wouldn't have created webcompat.com and it wouldn't be as busy as it appears to be. We can probably work around such issues but I wouldn't expect non-techies to do the same.
Thanks legends
IE is the best!

Unrelated, would you mind taking a few facebook quizzes and how's your bank accound doing?
What about cars? Does Lemmy like cars now?
- What is cars?

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