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Lifer
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I guess I don't see a forum for browsers, so ....


I use an older version of SeaMonkey as primary.

I also use Brave, Vivaldi and Opera for different things, all that icky chromium thingey.

Tried to install DDG this morning but it quacked and flapped about my OS.

Never used FF, probably never will.

Way long back ago, I remember using Maxthon which was a skin of sorts for IE. Seems they also have chromium version that I just installed.

Looking back through some other things on this old dinosaur of a laptop, I see OneBrowser that I seem to recall trying but didn't like. May remove it.

Thoughts?
 
pete6032

pete6032

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They are basically all the same now. It's just a question of which one do you trust with your personal information more.
 
Lost_in_the_HTTP

Lost_in_the_HTTP

Lifer
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That's how I feel about FF for taking Mozilla's focus off further development of Mozilla Suite and creating SM as a castoff.
 
lxskllr

lxskllr

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Difference is chrom(ium) is a monopoly run by google. Regardless of the skin on top, it's google pulling the levers. Mozilla suite is a product most people don't want. Mail clients are dead. XMPP is dead. Web developing? Who the hell does that?! Most people are lucky to get their computers on without help. Sending MS to the community was the right call.
 
biostud

biostud

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I used FF for a long time switched to Edge when it used Chromium, now using FF at work as Edge doesn't like long running sessions with many tabs open. In the end it simply bogs down, which FF never does.
 
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stargazr

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I use Firefox. Every now and then, something doesn't work there, like a local news site. I like to watch their morning news show on PC, especially for weather and traffic before work. So I use either Edge or Chrome just for that, whatever works at the time.
 
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MangoX

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Anyone would be insane to browse the web these days naked. I use FF with security, privacy and ad block extensions.
 
mikeymikec

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Lifer
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Lost_in_the_HTTP said:
That's how I feel about FF for taking Mozilla's focus off further development of Mozilla Suite and creating SM as a castoff.
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The Mozilla Suite's day was done a long time ago, unless you believe that e-mail software, an IRC client and a HTML composer are things that most people need.

The other reason why was because its GUI toolkit wasn't anywhere near as fast as native toolkits.

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I'm a long-time FF user since 0.something, with a brief switch to Chrome until FF got its multithreading sorted. I used Mozilla before FF.
 
nOOky

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I use Chrome at work because they won't let me use FF. But at home I always used FF until my last install. I started using Edge, and just kind of stuck with it. Before that I used IE one time to download Firefox.
 
mikeymikec

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nOOky said:
I use Chrome at work because they won't let me use FF. But at home I always used FF until my last install. I started using Edge, and just kind of stuck with it. Before that I used IE one time to download Firefox.
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Huh. I wonder if it's even possible to make Edge usable (ie. my standards of usable, like I want to be able to customise stuff without Microsoft wagging a finger at me), I've more or less given up on Edge completely since Microsoft even stripped out a *hidden* feature that made customisation more practical.
 
lxskllr

lxskllr

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It was Firebird for about a week when I started using it. It then changed to Firefox, and I've used nothing else since. I always have some other browsers installed for special purposes or a failsafe, but it's always firefox as my real browser.
 
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Lifer
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ElFenix said:
been running firefox since early alphas. looking in my download folder the oldest one i still have is M17 from september of 2000.
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Going to install Win11 on my 2 Win10 laptops imminently, probably fresh installs. Main browser is Chrome but I also keep Brave open for those pesky URLs that slam me with a firewall or nasty ads.

I used to run Firefox exclusively, but switched to Chrome when my Firefox got super bogged down and slow. There were probably better means of dealing with that. Based on what I'm seeing here I want to go back to Firefox.

So, to move to Firefox in my new Win11 installs, I'm wondering... Can I get my Win10 passwords migrated from Chrome to Firefox? Other "settings" too?
 
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