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Am I the only one left happily using Firefox? You know, the only "major" browser that doesn't seem to have these conflicts of interest?

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Also happy Firefox user here. Do not worry, there are dozens of us. Dozens!

It's always nice to meet a fellow neverChrome.

The Firefox that gets the vast majority of its revenue from Google, that Firefox?

I think the only full-featured browser with a prosocial funding model is Konqueror, where what little money there is mostly comes from EU grants. Not coincidental that its code quality was so much better that everyone else based on its rendering engine.

and until recently, the only browser that allows to split the view into independent sub-windows..

wait how'd you do this

It's in the right click menu, or there's a key command for it.

Konqueror is underfunded and can't catch up with the standards

Konqueror no longer uses its unique KHTML engine and has switched to working on top of WebKit/Safari, making it just a wrapper, similar to Brave. It’s a pity that the last truly independent player in the browser engine market is gone, but such are the realities.

I use Firefox Mobile but have long abandoned the desktop offering. The only thing I feel like I get from the desktop version lately is a spiritual victory whereas the mobile browser actually has tangible features I prefer like add-ons and the search bar at the bottom.

On iOS it’s still safari backend though?

Yes.

Being the only Android browser (that I know of) that support extensions, namely UBlock Origin, means that Firefox is the only logical choice for me.

Chrome's Manifest v3 forcing UBO into becoming UBO Lite only strengthen my original decision.

Hopefully this move by google would push more people toward Firefox. Although considering the amount of people who happily surf the web with zero adblockers (including every single of my IT colleagues), I'm not holding my breathe.

Kiwi browser (chromium fork) on android supports extensions from the chrome store. Not that it'll help for much longer.

Another happy Firefox user. On desktop and mobile. I always have used Netscape/Firefox.

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