• Kilgore Trout
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    5826 days ago

    gorhill already strongly suggests to use Firefox, but to drop Google Chrome altogether would leave millions of people stranded.

        • @anlumo@lemmy.world
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          426 days ago

          Good post. Also, in the case of GitHub, one major reason for me for using it is that this is the first place a potential employer will look at to see my work. They won’t delve into the depths of a random git hosting service nobody has ever heard about.

          • Kilgore Trout
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            126 days ago

            You just need to put a link on your resume, that way they will know about it.

        • @ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml
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          26 days ago

          True, at the end of the day it does come down to number of users, unfortunately. More users does mean more potential help/contributions. I just wish more people would switch to Firefox or another non-Chromium browser.

          • Kilgore Trout
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            126 days ago

            The author’s goal, laterally, is to spread Free Software to as many users as possible.

            We’ll never convince anyone that out fight for Freedom is good, by circlejerking.

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        526 days ago

        As much as I like Firefox/Librewolf, Vivaldi still has the upper hand in UI/UX. Workspaces, more feature-rich sidebar, one-click access to recently closed tabs right there in the tab bar, speed dial, tab stacks and other QoL stuff that makes just enough difference for me that I can’t really daily-drive any other browsers. Until FF reaches feature parity (it’s getting close, but still isn’t quite there yet) I don’t see myself migrating anytime soon. Quess I’ll just need to rely more on AdGuard DNS and Vivaldi’s built-in adblocker if uBlock becomes neutered on Chromium…

        • @SuperSpruce@lemmy.zip
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          126 days ago

          Why are people downvoting you? I totally agree with you. Firefox has the upper edge (pun unintended) on the backend technology that causes them to resist Google’s greedy changes, but acts just like a for-profit company when it comes to the UI.

          Look how much pointless whitespace their is on the tab bar. It was so “popular” that Chrome recently came in and copied that change. But Vivaldi just goes its own way, trying to make the most competitive browser it can.