Perfect timing to switch browsers!
Please, more people switch to Firefox. Chrome is breaking the internet.
The analytics is most likely blocked by common adblock rules. And present-day Firefox users are quite likely to be advanced users, running adblock.
Thus Firefox ends up being under-represented in the analytics.
Or have user agents devolved to the point where every browser lists every other browser and you genuinely can't tell them apart anymore?
Seems like you should still be able to identify the browser without a fancy analytics package.
Yes.
On the other hand, if you're running adblock, many sites probably don't care how and if the site works for you.
Yes
And by the way: it is estimated that 60% of all internet users block analytics. So take your stats with a grain of salt.
Source?
I have tried to switch to Firefox multiple times, but I couldn't stand how much slower it felt than Brave, especially on Android. I also prefer the minimalistic interface of Chromium, and run Brave with its "Rewards" feature turned off.
YMMV of course. Firefox has a long way to go it seems on mobile.
It is totally possible that the "problem is on my side" but they still lost my business. There's only so much effort I'm willing to put into purchasing from a company if I can't use their website. Most places work fine, both of these didn't. I normally just find a company that has a better website to give my money to instead.
It's possible it would have eventually worked if I started the browser in safe mode or something, but this doesn't seem reasonable to me to do to be able to give them money.
And overall the extension landscape looks highly bleak. What are the recommended adblockers? I found Ghostery Lite (which according to the reviews seems quite disappointing) and a number of paid adblockers...
From my test some while back there at least seemed to be a decent number of extensions out there but now it's different. Why?
Edit: The Bitwarden extension seems to have been installed automatically along with the desktop app.
Regarding ad blockers, my solution has just been to stop using the internet so much. I almost exclusively use it for work now. So I run into almost no websites with ads.
I heartily recommend going internet free except during work hours, and using the library for the rest. It's been such an amazing life improvement for us, we wish that on everyone.
Laughing foremost because I'd certainly be asking the wrong guy as I'd expect most HN guys to be power users. Not laughing because I recognize the huge potential of waste of time the internet brings along, that I hadn't really seriously considered until recently, had just figured it's half necessary to keep myself up to speed with things. We really don't need to be up to speed with things, outside of work at least, and if work is stressing us to the point where it becomes uncomfortable we should simply just change our work.
I do however like to be efficient in whatever I do so I would still like a convenient way of browsing the web, but... in the big picture it's not that important, especially if you leave out the time consuming stuff. Then it's mostly looking up stuff, which you can do using whatever tools.
In a couple of months I will be cutting off most of those time consuming tasks, whether that's FB, Reddit, HN, following politics, mindlessly looking for entertainment/escape. It's a life choice and I'm really looking forward to it.
For work I simply use Chrome and will keep it that way. Simple, easy, compatible, not fighting the mainstream. For private browsing though I would prefer to use something more.. personal. Brave works fine, currently trying out Cliqz. And I've tried out Next and Qutebrowser the last two days. Being a geek/ADHD I guess. There are more important things in life. Meditation helps. So does sailing. And not ranting on HN.
> In a couple of months I will be cutting off most of those time consuming tasks, whether that's FB, Reddit, HN, following politics, mindlessly looking for entertainment/escape. It's a life choice and I'm really looking forward to it.
Forgot which book it was, Sinner's Guide or Philothea, but the author said that Hercules went off into a lonely area to debate with himself what kind of life he ought to life, and he concluded that a life of virtue is the only one living. Your statement reminded me of it because (a) it's purely a choice of the will, which is the only thing we really have control over, and the only thing we own that nobody else has control over; and (b) he went off away from the busyness of the world in order to have an opportunity to think about his life and how he should live it.
It's unlikely that you will notice the difference anyway, few websites manipulate that many DOM elements at interactive rates. Those would be much better off with Canvas, which is also way slower on Firefox.
[1] https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=chrome-8...
in my experience, both browsers performed very differently under Windows than under Linux (Manjaro). both mozilla and google clearly spend more time optimizing for the overwhelmingly more common user (Windows).
That said, I still prefer Firefox because Firefox isn't Blink.
Oh, and there's my desire to push back against browser engine monoculture, which I believe is bad for the Web.
How so? Has Brave introduced security related features that are not in Chromium?
That would indeed be impressive, considering the amount of developers working on Chrome.
So there's a bit of insider knowledge there, yes.
You probably believe in curtailing certain personal freedoms for other reasons and you are morally justified to do so. Again, nothing personal.
> You probably believe in curtailing certain personal freedoms for other reasons and you are morally justified to do so. Again, nothing personal.
The key difference is that I don't want to limit personal freedoms for a specific class of people. That's when it does get personal.
That's not "a theory" I have, that's a sincere belief that religious person might have. Had you been born a century earlier, it probably wouldn't have seemed so crazy to you.
> The key difference is that I don't want to limit personal freedoms for a specific class of people.
You probably do, but you'd just arbitrarily define what is and isn't a (protected) class of people, so I'll leave it at that.
Of course the steps from 'insane belief' and 'act perceived as immoral' can involve specific steps of reasoning which seem morally correct within the context of the insane belief. That's not the point, not a good justification for the act, and not something that we as a society should tolerate.
Some kind of incompetence, delusion, or misunderstanding is very often the cause of an immoral act.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_demographics_of_the_Unite...
Gay men and women who had worked alongside and under Eich for years at Mozilla were appalled at the controversy and said he had always treated them kindly and was a great friend.
I see how this thread maybe isn’t helpful — except that it demonstrates that people still have hard feeling towards him (though I doubt anyone who knew him personally would, gay or not). But it’s bringing up the old controversy yet again. Sorry.
Can you not imagine that it's possible to disagree with someone on social issues without hating them?