Because Microsoft and google are abysmal companies.I don't trust either of them (he typed, on an android phone - at least its been ROMmed)
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It's by far the best mobile browser that let's you run tampermonkey and uBlock on Android and it's not close. I haven't found an add-on that let's me run video/audio in the background, so until then Brave stays installed so that running YouTube with no ads and the phone locked is an option.
Aside from that, Firefox gives fantastic customization options, runs well, and is less vulnerable to attacks specifically because it has a smaller market share and it makes more sense to target Chromium based browsers.
bottom navigation is a godsend these days as phone screens are 7". Also adblocker.
Because Brave didn't allow add-ons when I tried it. This was years ago so no idea what it's like now
Tried to download a bank statement the other day and Chrome marked it as malware. Also happened with my Internet bill. I'm done with Chrome
Because sometimes I need to use Not Safari, and the alternatives are too awful to consider.
I'm happy with Brave for the most part but an update with Webview or something broke all browsers using it on my Android Dash unit so I was actually forced to switch to Firefox simply because it works. Now I'm considering switching over on all my devices.
Because Lemmy told me to
Because old habits die hard.
So is there like a Firefox equivalent to ChromeOS? Wikipedia mentions a few discontinued projects by companies but that's it. I still like the concept of a really minimal device that outsources storage and heavy computation (probably to a server I also own).
Am a masochist and like to do things in spite others. I've been working through browser wars as a developer and hated every minute of adapting things to look good on IE. These days I really dislike Firefox. Mainly because they pretend things work fine and need no optimization or for being set in their ways. Took them embarrassingly long time to implement adwaita theme or Wayland and just told us to use other display server.
But I keep using it because I don't want Google to be this dominant. Giving them more power is always going to end worse for users. So as before am suffering again. Oh well.
For those claiming everything is still fine...
Question for those who use unlock origin on Firefox, does the browser hang when loading pages when you first turn it on, Iโm having that problem.
Writing Firefox extensions sucked.
I haven't tried web extensions.
For the price of mild inconvenience in some cases I get to add a tiny little bit of resistance against chromium monopolistic rule.
I actually stopped using it a few years ago because of a weird glitch I kept encountering where it would forget how to render non-standard symbols on websites (I forget the technical description, it's been years). Sites like Twitter became neigh unusable because I couldn't tell what any button was.
With all the recent problems, I know I want to switch back. Just haven't had the time and patience to do it.