uBlock Origin - An efficient blocker for Chromium and Firefox. Fast and lean. - gorhill/uBlock
        • asdfasdfasdf@lemmy.world
          6·
          3 days ago

          Seriously, like, I have a Mozilla account for syncing but holy fuck it only syncs bookmarks. I have to fucking reconfigure every goddamn setting ever time I reinstall my OS or change laptops. It would be so goddamn easy to just send some fucking JSON to a server somewhere but no, they’re coming up with new logos and mascots and AI bullshit. It’s 2026 and I can’t sync my settings.

          • XLE@piefed.socialEnglish
            12·
            3 days ago

            I maintain that AI features should have been an optional extension, not a mandatory baked-in feature that could have been accomplished with one.

            Especially because Mozilla isn’t just devoting developer time to it, they have been pushing whole feature updates to these “optional” components inside bugfix releases

        • eldavi@lemmy.mlEnglish
          2·
          3 days ago

          AI is a cash cow rn – it makes sense for firefox to try grab some of the waterfall while it’s still running.

      • Kyrias@lemmy.ca
        3·
        3 days ago

        One day, probably. I just liked how Mozilla did things until recently. I’m even pro them moving towards things like VPNs and such.

    • kinkles@sh.itjust.works
      17·
      3 days ago

      I was getting annoyed when they had a brief period where it seemed like every new feature was AI-related but they’ve calmed down on it a bit, thankfully. Just flip the no-AI toggle and still enjoy everything else they’ve done lately, like better HDR support, YouTube improvements, pdf tools, vertical tabs, containers, etc.

    • Carighan Maconar@piefed.worldEnglish
      7·
      3 days ago

      I mean you can just turn it off including future ones, no?

      And sadly, as much as I wish this weren’t true, my 70y old mum I talked into Firefox does kinda make good use both of the translate feature and interestingly of the summarize. With age, she noticed she struggles with long texts, so she has the browser summarize it, checks whether it is what she actually wants to read, then later makes time to read it slowly with breaks.

      That’s just 1 user, I know. Still, it gave me pause. I didn’t think summarize in particular had a real use case.

      • myyass@lemmy.world
        2·
        3 days ago

        Yeah, I’ll pass on that. That’s a bit way more rough than I like it. Librefox; just lol. Sounds good on paper but … passwords on paper then huh.

  • Lulzagna@lemmy.world
    4·
    3 days ago

    It’s too bad Firefox doesn’t work best at anything some things

    Edit: I know there’s a lot of Firefox fanboys, and I’m anti Google too, but ever time I try to use Firefox, it’s broken in so many ways. They still haven’t fixed the address bar on Linux after years

    Edit: I had a typo in my post, I meant to say “some things” not “anything”. That’s what I get for typing on a phone.

    • econsa@lemmy.ml
      8·
      3 days ago

      They still haven’t fixed the address bar on Linux after years

      Maybe I’m not using the address bar on other browsers / OS’s to its full potential, but what is the problem with Firefox’s address bar on Linux?

    • yuki_gassen@lemmy.ml
      4·
      3 days ago

      Ah yes, disagree-ers are silly “fanboys” who use Firefox despite how absolute trash it is. I just have to use chrome I really don’t have a choice :(

      What distro are u running? Are u trying to rice it out or something?

      • Lulzagna@lemmy.world
        1·
        3 days ago

        I just realized now this is the Firefox community, so I deserve my downvotes.

        I tried switching to Firefox several times, but buggy address bar, performance, features, lack of extensions, and dev tools kind of all played into me not using it.

        I’m running Hyprland, and before I was on Gnome (wayland). I’m not doing anything to the browser, I like things vanilla. I just need tab hibernation that works, a page monitor extension (distill), workspaces, and dev tools that work well.

  • rollerbang@lemmy.world
    3·
    3 days ago

    It’s just too bad that Firefox is such a hog. Compared to many other browsers with the same use case it easily doubles memory usage, if not even more.

    Downvoter(s), care to elaborate? Is it illegal to note real world experience?