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Already switched to Firefox and couldn't be happier.

Switched a long time ago from IE and no matter what other browser I try I always come back to Firefox after a while. It just behaves as I expect it to and the UI customization feature is awesome.

The only browser that I think could make me switch is qutebrowser, though the lack of an adblocker is an obstacle for me.

Agree, I've been using FF forever. If I work on other peoples computers I install it and tell them to try it out. It's the best.

I go one step further and uninstall all their other browsers so that they have no choice.

Just kidding. I do not do this.

> The only browser that I think could make me switch is qutebrowser, though the lack of an adblocker is an obstacle for me.

qutebrowser has a built-in adblocker (based on a host blacklist) which works fine for most scenarios.

There's also https://gitlab.com/jgkamat/jblock though that's not really supported until extension support is finished.

I do already block ads via the /etc/hosts file and it largely works pretty well but it completely fails on YouTube and Reddit. I've read that YT is at best tricky with pihole as well, so for now I just use Firefox for these sites and qutebrowser for most other purposes.

But great to know there's some progress.

FWIW I just use a keybinding to open mpv for Youtube. There's also https://github.com/ParticleCore/Iridium which can prevent ads (though I'm not sure if it still works, it was broken at some point).

Thanks for the suggestion, the keybinding for mpv works really well. Definitely better than getting these horrible popups in the middle of the videos.

Same! Had Developer edition installed for testing, but switched fully today (Uninstalled Developer, installed Nightly). The fonts look nice, it's got wayland support on my Linux partition (on Fedora), and it's just really pleasant!

If you’re switching to full time use or Firefox, I cannot recommend going with Nightly; developer edition is a good choice.

Ah how come? It's being great to me so far! Back before the Chrome days, '00s and early '10s, every geek like me used to use Nightly, so I went with that.

I've been using Nightly as my normal browser for two years with absolutely no issues.

Got a new laptop and that in addition to Google's evergrowing awfulness prompted the switch. Was pleasantly surprised that my u2f tokens worked as expected.

> The fonts look nice

I noticed this too in FF on Linux, I inspect elemented and for some reason a huge number of websites were using Nimbus Sans as the font... Later when I eventually used someone's Windows install I realized that Nimbus was only being used on my computer... Wtf?

It's a font developed long ago by some famous font foundry, and a subset covering common characters was made free and included in Linux printer drivers. It is visually very similar to Helvetica/San Francisco. I installed GNU FreeFont (probably available in your distro's repos) which looks the exact same but covers many more characters than Nimbus. In Firefox I went to the font config settings, set FreeSans/FreeSerif as the default fonts, and unchecked the option to allow websites to specify custom fonts. Just don't disable the checkbox to download web fonts, or icon fonts with various icons/glyphs will show as boxes.

It's truly beautiful - every once in a while I see some text and just stop reading and stare at it for a few seconds. On the rare occasion when I go to a website about fonts I use another browser to be able to see their CSS-specified fonts.

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