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Why Bother With uBlock Being Blocked In Chrome? Now Is The Best Time To Switch To Firefox::Choose the browser that best suits your privacy needs.

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[–] ZenbyBosatsu@lemmy.today 0 points 1 year ago (8 children)

I’d largely like to agree. My main issue is as others have said, some websites don’t work on Firefox due to Chrome basically being the standard. It’s annoying. And I do think people should still switch and try their best to stop using Chrome. Because IF we could get to a point where Firefox has a larger audience than it already has, the problem may end up stopping due to developers having more of a need to make sure their stuff is cross compatible with other browsers.

[–] space@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've been using Firefox as my main browser for a long time. Sites that don't work in FF are very rare. If it's something I really need to access, I just use chrome/edge for that particular site. But as I said, it happens rarely, and there's an easy way to work around it.

[–] Sheeple@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I actually encountered the opposite. A site I've been using for roughly 7 years actually has massive issues on chrome that makes it unusable.

On Firefox? No problem at all.

[–] meekah@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Which site? Just curious. I've never encountered any issues whatsoever with either browser.

[–] CosmicCleric@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Decades old Firefox user here.

In the last week or two both Discord as well as Google Maps started not to work, they basically freeze up during/after they load, almost freezing up the whole browser as well (struggle to close the tabs they are on).

The weird thing is they both always used to work great up to just very recently, and nothing else has changed on my desktop, except for the normal OS updates semi daily.

(Speaking of the desktop version, on Fedora Linux.)

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