If you want the chrome experience in Firefox download a variant called Waterfox.
I've been using waterfox for years now I can't be half here.
this post was submitted on 21 Nov 2023
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I would love to switch to Firefox, but Chrome has a much better profiles management and I use it a lot!
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Firefox kind of sucks in android though and there are no good forks imo, but this is also true for chromium so idk what to do.
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I might be in the very minority crowd here, but I just can't get used to Firefox. I mean once upon a time I was clinging to Netscape screaming foul at Internet Explorer too, old habits die hard. But Chrome just clicks for me, whereas the multiple times I've tried Firefox, it just doesn't click for me. Can't put my finger on it.
No. This whole push feels astroturfed.
I love firefox so much, but at times, I also am ready to ditch it. Some default configurations are just nothing but stupid. E.g.: all ports above 1024 are by default blocked, even with local domains in your LAN. Or, just happened today: ftp is generally blocked. I then had to switch to Chromium to get a file. Or: if on Linux, many video codecs are not by default bundled. Reasons like that make me hate Firefox. But I hate everything else a bit more.
So is there a browser based on Firefox but without strict configs?
all ports above 1024 are by default blocked
Not on localhost at least no it isn't.
And why the hell would you be using ftp in currentyear. Newsflash: They also ditched gopher.
Never came across a video on the modern web that firefox couldn't play. Everything post-flash should really be fine.
What actually annoys me about all browsers are the policies around loading certain stuff from file://. Try getting something wasm to run without serving the thing from a web server or, *shudder*, base64-encoding bitcode into html. I understand there's some valid gripes around ../ and softlinks and whatnot but, wait, hear me out: What about zipping everything up and calling it a webapp, treat the file as a domain.
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It's getting more and more like chrome.