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It just keeps getting worse - Firefox to "evolve into a modern AI browser"
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this post was submitted on 16 Dec 2025
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It's very sad as I don't think there's a proper alternative in short term. In the end, I am afraid that I'll have to keep using Firefox because it's essentially the "lesser evil",
FF was suppose to be alternative to google, until google "captured competition" by making up majority of thier revenue.
It started as an alternative to Internet Explorer and was so much better it actually overtook it.
Actually Firefox is continued development from Netscape Navigator which predates Internet Explorer. Firefox is the grand daddy of internet browsers in that way.
Waterfox, Librewolf, Ironfox
So you switched to a Google controlled ecosystem. To no one's surprise their own products, which intentionally run worse on competitive browsers, will work more smoothly once you use their backing software...
Google has a long history of abusing their position of power to "punish" users of other browsers and ecosystems by violating web standards, don't use Google's browsers or their derivatives.
This is true, however I've been cursed with using an iphone for a while and I had to find a decent alternative to firefox and ublock.
Unfortunately Safari is horrendous, like anything software Apple makes really, but it's the only browser allowed to have extensions and Vivaldi is the only real alternative to it that work, as Firefox is terrible on ios.
Orion browser allows this on iPhone! You can use Firefox or Chrome add ons.
Source? That's news to me, and when I tried finding a source myself, all I found were extensions etc. to add that to the browser.
EDIT: Both the comment I replied to, and a comment replying to me by the same person, have been deleted...were they caught in a lie/mistake and not brave enough to admit it? lol
Better to "send keystrokes" to Google.