Take Back the Web

Maybe you are already a Firefox user, we are part of a minority on the web today, and think that this text is not for you. You’re probably right, but I’d like to make a few points here and ask for your help in taking the web back before it’s too late. And if you don’t use Firefox, you’ve been using some version of Chromium (Chrome, Edge, Opera, Brave or Vivaldi) a few years ago this wouldn’t necessarily be a bad thing, but today it’s bad for the health and freedom of an web that respect privacy and is not controlled by capitalist corporations, the so-called Big Techs.

8BitFriendly,
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While I agree with the text, I think it's difficult to persuade people into using Firefox by reading a big blob of text.
I recommend sharing one of the many YouTube videos around the topic, e.g. this short one: https://youtu.be/lTIvyw2JQjA.

darthtyr,

The only thing that I do not use Firefox for is when I download stuffs from mega.nz, as somehow using Firefox to do this always resulted in huge amount of RAM being consumed, so I have to use Vivaldi for this exact kind of task. Everything else, Firefox all the way.

jflorez,

I use Firefox for 99% of my work and 100% of my private browsing. It is amazing to me that people I work with blindly go for Chrome because that is “the internet” in the saw way IE was “the internet” 20 years ago. I find it hard to get people to switch but I’ve had a couple of successes

asmith1243,

Is there more to this post? Not seeing any points outside of an opening statement. Using Memmy right now, so I may be missing a big chunk of this post!

yoasif,
@yoasif@fedia.io avatar

The article should link to https://pauloroger.dev/post/take-back-the-web/ -- if it doesn't, it might be an issue with the client.

asmith1243,

Awesome, thanks for taking the time to link again!

Trapping5341,

Reading it in my browser and nope that seems to be all there is.

yoasif,
@yoasif@fedia.io avatar

I see that the "Take Back the Web" text is linked to the link I mentioned on the UI at https://lemmy.world/post/1116208.

MerliSYD,

I used to use Firefox until several years ago when it became super slow and full of memory leaks that caused me to close it and restart all the time.

Chrome is so much faster.

Is Firefox a viable alternative now? I used to love it but it became unusable.

yoasif,
@yoasif@fedia.io avatar

Is Firefox a viable alternative now?

Why not try it and see?

giacomo,

It would take literal minutes. Who got that time?

8BitFriendly,
8BitFriendly avatar

Or check the benchmarks:
https://kbin.social/m/firefox@fedia.io/t/181067/Firefox-now-has-speed-parity-with-Chrome-on-the-Speedometer

ElectroVagrant,

Firefox had a significant rework awhile ago to improve its performance, so I suspect it may run better for you these days if the last time you used it was several years ago. It’s the browser I’m currently using & it runs smoothly for me even with a silly amount of tabs open.

bluGill,
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Firefox is at best marginally better. Google pays for development, (the Mozilla foundation does not). That gives Google a lot of power, both direct and indirect because of fear google will stop.

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