With the number of people concerned about privacy, it is a wonder why chrome is even popular.

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    2 years ago

    Keep using Firefox. We’re now returning to the Era where websites only worked with Internet Explorer but in this case, it is chrome. We can’t let that happen.

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      2 years ago

      Also … the most valuable content I find or want online for my own uses is all text based … reading blogs, forums, news sites, articles, creative writing, wikipedia

      I really don’t care about design or flashy lights and pictures … I just want to read the news

      I often just toggle the read only view as soon as I find something I want to read and seldom care about what a site looks like … on the other side of that … if the site is so messed up or controlling that it refuses reader view … I skip it and move on

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      While it won’t become that bad ever again because of far more and better standardization, it has basically become a Webkit monopoly already. Sites often don’t work (as well) on Firefox because web developers don’t bother to do cross-browser testing anymore.

      That was the actual (only) good thing with Internet Explorer: it coming with Windows endured significant adoption since many people don’t bother installing another browser, especially in business environments. This forced web devs to make their sites and apps cross-browser compatible. With Edge being a Chromium browser that has gone out of the window.

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      2 years ago

      In my opinion, this is not as big of a deal as, since WebKit/Blink is open source. Everybody could just use the same engine and just build their version of the browser around it. Firefox doesn’t need to maintain their own engine.