7 Reasons Why I Still Use Firefox Instead of Chrome

When Google Chrome was published, it was with a lot of fanfare and excitement. I was a first user, and even if things were great for a while, it did not take time before being back in Firefox. And I stayed with it.

The choice of browser meant something

Chrome was exciting because he was resourceful and, for developers, predictable: for years, we had trouble with the compatibility of the browser, because each browser has done things a little differently, that your website displayed properly for all your users was as based on hope as prowess in programming. Chrome has promised to finish this with a browser in accordance with standards on a modern rendering engine, supported by one of the largest Internet companies in the world.

It sounded very well, but there was a warning: now, almost everything is chrome, or actually Chrome under the hood. Chrome represents almost 70% of all web browsers, while the majority of others are all based on chrome, the same rendering engine used by Chrome, and effectively controlled by Google. When Google wants to make a change, the rest must almost follow. However, this is not the case for 2% of users who use Firefox.

He doesn’t try to sell me

The choice of browser these days concerns as much to whom you are recovering your use data as any set of specific features. While some browsers have a blockage of integrated advertisements and VPNs, they are ultimately always for profit. I don’t always know how, but I’m almost sure I am followed for marketing purposes.

Firefox is 100% open-source and true. As long as you don’t connect it to online services, it doesn’t follow you.

It’s not to tell you can’t Be followed while using Firefox. The websites will always do everything they can to get as much information as possible for you so that they can show you advertisements for the last essential widget, but at least it is one less party for my use on the Internet.

Personalization and personalization

Firefox is highly customizable and allows you to really go under the hood to adjust things.

The Configuration Configuration Editor About: allows you to modify the appearance of the behavior of Firefox, how the search and address bar behaves, in performance adjustments.

Firefox also has a huge ecosystem of complementary modules and themes to adapt it to the way you want to use it.

It does not pull the carpet of extension developers

One of the largest complaints taken from Chrome and its cousins (Edge, Safari, Opera, et al.) Is how extensions have been managed. Manifest 3 is the new format for chrome compatible extensions, and its deployment has locked the developers from many features to which they previously had access, killing their existing extensions and preventing what the new ones can do.

Although it is necessary that the developers occasionally suffer the slate and provide a new standard to develop integrations (Firefox has done so in the past), the potential motivations for changes in manifest 3 have raised some eyebrows. If you depend on one of these extensions for confidentiality or online safety, having them removed is a bit insulting.

NOSCRCRT works!

On the subject of extensions, Noscript 100% works in Firefox, so I can block everything on the page. It is terrible for conviviality, but ideal for the safety and the life of the battery, because the pages cannot execute JavaScript without my green light.

He has an open source philosophy

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Firefox is open-source, and although there are commercial elements, they are all optional and Firefox has managed to remain (mainly) without interference. In support is important for the future of the Internet, because any unique entity that controls the very tool that you use to access it (your web browser) is not a good thing.

In addition, a CRI with MDN web documents, a completely precious resource for web developers who wish to create applications and websites that comply with standards.

It (maybe) lighter

As almost all other web browsers use chromium rendering, one of the main ways of differentiating additional features: integrated mail, social media, shopping, VPN, etc., etc. Chrome has also received complaints regarding degraded performance, although it always focuses on being a web browser, so a large part of this may be due to how It is used.

Firefox is only a browser, and it remains quite slender. It looks like a portal to the Internet, not a depth and vertigo image frame cluttered with ornate buttons for the features that I will never use, and which are probably lower than their autonomous counterparts. A browser must simply be a browser, a coherent experience that I don’t have to “learn” to use whenever FAD’s last feature is added.

Use the browser that works for you, but keep it safe

Whatever the web browser you use, you need to consult confidentiality and security tools that will improve your security posture, update your browser settings for better confidentiality protection and follow best practices to make sure you are protected against online threats, whatever the application you use to connect.