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      It’s a decent browser, but half the reason people hate it is because MS tries to force it on you. They should let it stand on its own merits then maybe it wouldn’t have such a negative reception.

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        Meh, Chrome is a piece of shit as well. If you use gmail on another browser, they keep pestering you to try Chrome.

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          I just opened my gmail in Firefox and I don’t see this Chrome notification right now. Maybe it pops up every now and then. I wouldn’t be bothered by it that much, since started using Thunderbird as mail client last month, and the interface is so much better and customizable than gmail ever was. I did use Thunderbird a long time ago, but stopped when I got gmail in 2004. And all this time I thought Thunderbird still had the old classic UI. Apparently it became a bit too messy with all different volunteer contributions and Mozilla didn’t have a project management to stay with a certain direction. In Feb 2023 they announced in this blog post to rebuild Thunderbird from the ground up and invest the resources to support the community again, although with more control. Then a few months ago this big update to 115 was released, which was featured in a computer tech website so I became curious again. One of the best decisions of this year (although I’m still using it to access gmail), together with joining Lemmy of course.

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      It’s better than chrome for sure. Depending on what your criteria for using a browser it, it might even be in the top 3 browser options.

      But it’s still a Microsoft product filled with the usual Microsoft shenanigans. If you don’t care about your browser keeping track of what you do and that sort of privacy concerns, absolutely give it a try. You can even use it on Linux and Android and it works fine on those too.

      One other negative aspect I can think of is that Microsoft is quite open to adhering to Google’s own shenanigans like that recent proposal they got ridiculed for. For that reason I’d rather recommend Vivaldi instead - there’s very little that edge does better than Vivaldi and there’s plenty that Vivaldi does better than it.

      But also, please, consider using Firefox if you don’t have any problems with it. You’ll literally be helping make the internet a better place just by using it. So many people use chromium based browsers today that Google literally owns the way the internet works.

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          I wasn’t a fan of Firefox either and personally lived using edge. When the whole web integrity thing started happening, I felt like I should switch to Firefox and haven’t looked back.

          I still have some complaints, like you can’t install sites native app which I used a lot. I don’t think tab groups have been implemented yet, which isn’t a huge deal but very useful. And there were a few others I can’t remember off the top of my head. In the end I value my privacy a bit more so I’ve decided Firefox is worth it.

          Plus mobile ad blocking is a god send.

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              Sure, and there’s also an extension to install a web page as an app similar to Chrome. The point is that, out of the box, it lacks some features that I enjoy. Extensions are great and I use plenty of them, but that doesn’t mean that Firefox has those features, it just has extensions that have them.

              Firefox is great, don’t get me wrong, I’m definitely preferring it, but that doesn’t mean it doesn’t have all the features that I wanted up front.

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            you can’t install sites native app

            There’s an extension that lets you do this. I use it and it works great.

            I don’t think tab groups have been implemented yet

            Funny thing is that forced group tabs on Chrome mobile is what made me ditch it.

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              The PWA app works decent, but, unless I did something wrong, it would open links in itself instead of my main Firefox window which wasn’t what I’d want normally.

              I still use it, but it’s definitely not as nice as I’d want it to be.

              Definitely one of those things that’s minor and I can look past though.