Mozilla was awesome when I started Web programming in 2009. Remember Firebug? But then Chrome came out and the rest is history.
Nowadays Mozilla fumbles and complains. Maybe rightly so. I'm just tired of it.
Nowadays Mozilla fumbles and complains. Maybe rightly so. I'm just tired of it.
What was Firebug is now built in to Firefox: https://getfirebug.com/
What are the compelling advantages of Chrome nowadays?
Chrome is working to limit the capabilities of ad blockers:
https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2023/11/chrome-pushes...
Whereas a compelling advantage of Firefox is its support for uBlock Origin. uBlock Origin works best in Firefox:
https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/uBlock-Origin-works-b...
Advertising networks have often been vectors for malware. Using an ad blocker is an important security measure. Even the FBI recommends ad blockers:
https://www.malwarebytes.com/malvertising
https://theconversation.com/spyware-can-infect-your-phone-or...
Then Chrome directed more people into their ad funnel as the default action.
Then Google started buying up more glass and real estate. More people to shove though.
Now websites don't run in Firefox. (One of my lawyer's websites doesn't!)
Now Cookies and web standards are changing so Google is the only arbiter of targeted online ads.
It's time for anti-trust!
It allows first-party cookies to live for over a year which are used for re-targeting and building behavioural profiles. It recklessly incorporates every API under the sun which advertisers use for fingerprinting with 99% accuracy. And despite it being insidious and a major invasion of privacy Google still happily partners with companies who use it.
And now people who are completely ignorant about how their data is being used are jumping up and data for this behaviour to extend to all mobile devices.