Fun fact, most of the time, if something doesn't work on Firefox, changing your user agent to chrome make it mysteriously works just fine. Almost as if this was just sabotage. But hey, what do i know, right ?
Amazing how there hasn't been a lawsuit against it. Where you can basically site the same reason as Microsoft getting that anti trust lawsuit with explorer.
Wrong. Samsung phones have that thing that Samsung calls Internet Browser (sorry but it's straight up terrible) and people switch to Chrome. I know that it's already pre installed but you still have to find it and replace the Samsung browser with Google Chrome.
Long time Firefox user here. Every time I've bought a new computer or phone from the late 2000s onwards, I've downloaded Firefox and transferred everything across. I'll continue to use Firefox for as long as it exists.
Same here. I feel like i've been using Firefox since it's release at this point. I've never had any major issues with it as far as i can remember and will continue to use it for as long as i can.
Med too. I have seen no reason to switch. I have the Chrome browser too and use it ONLY when I want to search with google. But I use Firefox 99% of the time with Duck Duck Go as the search engine.
5:13 "Why did Google give everyone their source code to build their own browsers?" Because they had to. Chromium was built on Webkit, which was built on Konqueror/KHTML. The original open source GPL licensing still applies despite the monumental changes to the code base. They couldn't (legally) close it if they wanted to, at least not without auditing the code and reimplementing parts inherited from Webkit and KHTML.
I believe due to how code licensing works the GPL licensed code expanded in Blink as Chrome grew. The v8 JavaScript engine was not gpl licensed but has a permissive bsd type license. Firefox uses the MPL which is a bsd type license. This is one big reason firefox declined. Permissive licenses don't force sharing. But the real reason for Firefoxes decline is Mitchell, who drove it to the ground as ceo yet still is not fired to this day.
@@scottlee38 I use both plus Floorp and Vivaldi. It depends on what I'm doing but Firefox is my most used because of the abundance of useful extensions.
On my laptop, gaming PC, and phone, I use Firefox. At work, I have the choice between Chrome and Edge. This shows me pretty clearly, that FF's market share has little to do with user choice. Sometimes, a powerful multiplier like an employer enforces something that skews the statistics.
And all Android phones and Chromebooks ship with Google Chrome. Chromebooks are in the hands of basically every student in the public school system at this point.
This actually makes sense. Most people wanting to stay under the radar likes Firefox. I have had issues with Chrome and Edge is just too bloated, but if I have to pick a secondary browser it'll be Edge if I'm on Windows.
I can never not use Firefox. Too good, far more trusting, and less restrictive than overlord browsers. I only use chrome for manga bookmarks lol. Slowly been replacing it with Brave over the years.
Firefox is not going anywhere. Firefox was cool back then and it's cool right now. Google apps & TH-cam works perfectly fine in Firefox & this guy doesn't know what he's talking about. Don't let influencers get in your head & tell us it's over for Firefox. It's here to stay
Clickbait title, clickbait thumbnails (yes, there are two, and both are clickbait), wrong facts, misinformation all around. Thumbs down. BTW, I'm typing this comment on Firefox, using uBlock Origin, while running TH-cam Enhancer.
Firefox isn't "dead", it's just underground. As long as it's around, we're good. Things are going to change soon enough, am feeling the daily frustration of people with pointless ads/interruptions etc. There's going to be a breaking point eventually.
If you mean headless browsers, then I don't think they account for that much. 70% of visits are from phones, 70% of those use Android and 62% of those are Chrome as it's the default browser. There's where you get a lot of those numbers.
@@dominiksramko phones are pretty common for bots because they are cheap and low power. ive seen farms with hundreds of phones hooked up and mounted on a wall.
@ It is based on user agent. You can check the FAQ on statcounter. They do mention making an effort to eliminate bot activity so it doesn't affect their statistics, but who knows how successful they are.
Once he said that Firefox dominated and then showed at 30%, I knew to only trust what he said by his sources 😂 (which I've watched before, like Michael Horn)
Actually yeah, HTML5 was introduced way back around 2010 by the organization that still holds the main control over Internet protocols, the W3C, which could shut Google Down in an instant if that org decided to by simply shifting internet protocols to something Google would find very unfriendly to their business model. W3C doesn't have any reason to do this so far, however, so they allow Google to do their thing.
Clickbait much? You didn't even bother justifying an answer to the question on your title, aside from providing surface level common knowledge that most people already know. I bet that the script for this video was AI generated.
I would only consider switching if Chrome on Android gets extension support. Right now, Chrome is simply behind and has been for a while. Also it should allow to access WebView settings.
Same, I use Firefox 99% of the time, since the mid aughts. I use Brave for some of my google email accounts, and I'm keeping an eye on ladybird as a backup if s**t hits the fan, but I will not abandon Firefox unless it becomes impossible for me to download, install, and use it.
@@MJ-uk6lu ... how behind are we talking about? because chrome has had extension support for...well, a very ,very long time. I think 2009. So if that's what you were waiting for you might have missed the boat of that one. As for WebView settings, what?
Too true. "URL" also is a mystery word for many. Is it laziness? A lack of curiosity? Fear? (A computer is a tad more complex than a hammer... who knows what it might do?)...
Been using Firefox since Windows Vista, never even considered looking back. Open source, best privacy practices, and most important to me, not based on Chromium
@@real_mvp3811 Is that a sincere question? Firefox. It has been since Vista. Every OS I've had since then I have installed Firefox and set it as my OS's default. I'm a Windows power user. Changing the default browser and programs is a pretty basic thing to do for a power user
@@wisenber Does it though? Chromium, based browsers are required to adhere to Google's Chromium policies. A browser is only as private as the backend that runs it and Google is that backend for Chromium. Brave is Chromium based. I suppose you missed the part of my comment where I said "most important to me, not based on Chromium" Interesting how you missed that considering that the quote you pulled is directly beside the quote I just provided
I have used Firefox since the very first release back in 2004. It doesnt eat memory as bad as Chrome and I can block youtube ads. I can highlight text, right click, and delete. The built in screenshot tool is awesome. The biggest reason it fell behind is because network admins tend to use Edge or Chromium. Also, the average person is an NPC that defaults to edge or Chrome. Personally I cant stand chromium. Brave is the most tolerable chromium browser, but Firefox is better.
One thing i will never understand is the EUs antitrust lawsuits regarding browsers. The EU sued the crap out of Microsoft for having Explorer as default browser in Windows but they haven't done the same to either iPhone or Android that comes preloaded with Safari/Chrome or that Chrome OS comes preloaded with Chrome in the same way Internet Explorer was sued for.
Apple's market share is so low that the EU don't care about it as much. It was an issue with Microsoft because Windows has over 90% market share at the time.
The EU did force Google to pay a fine and Chrome isn't loaded by default on new Android devices. Instead you're given a browser install prompt on device load up. The fine came in 2018 and the removal of chrome as default takes full effect this year.
@@Daniel15auand despite that Apple got the sideloading decision and the payment one too so it would seem that the EU does care about what Apple does. but yeah, i think it is also true that Google does not get the same treatment as Microsoft did - if not on how closely linked things are but rather the way they seem to slow down other browsers accessing their products (like youtube or google docs… ) so yeah… there would be grounds for investigation
That's because they are not monopolies like MS Windows was on desktops back in the day. Worse off is the fact that while the iPhone might have a majority of the market in some countries in the EU, it does not have such a majority for the entire EU. Similarly, Android is fragmented with many manufacturers putting their own browsers on the phone and while I haven't set up a new phone in a few years, I think you can select your browser from a list here in the EU so they wouldn't be sued over that.
Evil Microsoft: "We bought out and closed or assimilated most of our small and medium competition, as well as most promising software companies with that MS-DOS money. We also started bundling our own internet explorer for free with Win OS, killing all companies who were selling them. FU Netscape! Our OS is now installed on almost 80% of world's computers." Google: "Hold my beer!"
I think is a combination of factors. I've been using Firefox since it exists, and will continue to do so. However, I'm not a fan of a lot of decisions by Mozilla. The big "G" as dominant is a thing, of course, but Mozilla contributed too to people leaving FF with some controversial decisions. We need competition and alternatives. Is bad that all is Chromium based. I hope FF keeps existing, but Mozilla should stop shooting their own feet too.
Ads are still basically bloat of internet. Nobody cares about making legit ads there and most ads are just made as quickly and as cheaply as possible. It should be called not ad blocking, but resisting crappy software.
@@InventorZahran There is more to internet ads than just product promotion. It is backed by surveillance capitalism feeding an obscure, but massive black market for illegally traded personal information, complete with dedicated data brokers mediating the deals. It's a criminal enterprise - pure and simple. Absolutely no need to entertain it.
When I build or update a website, I test everything in Firefox. If everything works in Firefox, then I check Chrome and Chromium. I do not have a current MacOS system, or I would check it in Safari as well, as I used to do that.
Thanks for the reminder to pref Firefox when web browsing. Always great to view your videos. The delivery/style is always smooth, direct, never rushed or confabulated. And you back up with verifications. Best with your works.
Could it be possible that these browser usage stats are skewed? Perhaps since many firefox users use privacy addons, those are blocking the usage stats for firefox, translating to a lower than actual usage percentage?
Possibly, but also consider that since Firefox's high point internet usage on phones has gone from a niche thing to the most common method of internet browsing. Almost 100% of those phones are on Chrome or Safari, Firefox is mostly for PC so it's a segment of the smaller market.
while true, maybe some of it would be more accurate (excluding those who spoof the user agent), as Google Analytics for example is offering server-side analytics (where instead of the website relying on a script on each user's browser to collect the data and send it back, it'll be measured on the same servers hosting the website/webapp the user is using) so in which case your best defense would be trying to use something that blends users together and actually resists fingerprinting, as the days of simply being able to block third party tracking/fingerprinting scripts to opt-out on most websites are numbered. Edit: Of course stuff that is designed to resist or randomize fingerprinting even for unknown or server-side trackers (e.g. LibreWolf, Brave, Mulvad Browser or TOR Browser) has drawbacks on convenience and may break features you'd like or need to use on some webapps/sites.
@@fix0the0spade Firefox has been my main & favorite browser for 15~20 years on desktop, which is STILL where I do almost all of my internet browsing, but I never installed it on my iphone because I recall reading that it lacked some basic feature like syncing bookmarks between phone & computer, which would be an absolute necessity for me. But I'm scrolling through reviews on the app page now (both good & bad rated reviews) and can't find any mention of that being a problem, so now I don't know if my memory is effing with me. Although the amount of bugs of being complained about is still pretty daunting. So many that are serious functionality issues, and are repeated my many people, and are all from within the last few months. Plus there are features that people complain it lacks which developers respond confirming is the case (usually blaming "iOS limitations). So regardless what I did or didn't read in the past, it seems clear that the mobile version of Firefox is far inferior to the desktop version, and this may be a large factor in why so few people use it on their phones.
i don't think that matters. as in the http headers, there's a string called "user-agent" that has that information. it's how a website knows that you are on a phone for example so it can automaticly send teh more fitting version to your mobile for optimum user experience.
I use safari. its chrome light, it has less features, they steal my data, but I can have hundreds of tabs open without bricking my laptop. It is a good laptop though.
@@rohithkumarbandariHowever, Chrome does not have ad blockers built in, and no downloaded extensions. Therefore all the banner ads, data collection, trackers, etc. significantly slow down the browsing experience. These ads slow down the performance as its running in the background and gigging RAM. Firefox for Android has extensions you can download including ad blockers and other things.
I won't ever support anything other than first-party (same-domain) static ads. I'm not going to feed the criminal enterprise called the modern ad industry.
video literally starts out by saying firefox marketshare has gone from 30% to 3% tiktok must have ruined your ability to retain information for longer than 10 minutes or something sure he says later people have abandoned chrome on the grounds of privacy and the youtube adblock situation. but you already know that is a small minority of people. the vast majority of internet users just use chrome because that's what everyone else uses. privacy and convenience be damned.
Librewolf and Waterfox might be more your thing, then. They remove a lot of telemetry and other nonsense. Librewolf is the more extreme option, likely to cause site breakages due to how much it removes.
With all due respect. This video is incomplete at best. Take a look at Firefox's non-technical problems. The Mozilla Foundation already expressed their will to change from a Browser company to a "group of global activists". Aside from that, they had a lot of drama in the last decade, like the acquisition of pocket and the bonuses some executives received while the market share for Firefox plummeted.
"We need to go beyond deplatforming" or something like that, a few years ago, and the crazy investments of the firefox (mozila?) foundation made me quit, i used it since its release, but oh well...
Parallel to that, Firefox had massive performance issues and insane memory leakage for a while. I never even noticed the activism, but performing like a slug and making my PC stutter is an absolute no-go for a browser. It became bloatware.
Brave has to keep changing its ad blockers to keep up with Google's constant crackdown. So as long as you keep updating the app, then you're good. But the issue is Brave drops support on older devices (on Android and iOS) so you're screwed if your phone's OS is outdated (can't update app, therefore ad blockers will not work anymore)... However, Firefox has extremely long app support, currently it still supports Android 5.0. Plus, Firefox has downloadble extensions while Chromium based browsers don't, so there are different ad blockers you can use and other extra things (I use one called Popup Blocker strict which is a much stronger kind of popup/dialog message blocker)
Brave will get much more inferior at adblocking because of Google. It can't keep supporting ManifestV2 when it's dropped from Chromium, hence why it's better to just use Firefox.
I'm using both Chrome and Firefox at the same time. Most people don't care about the privacy level of a web browser, people just want a good product. Chrome needs users data to make their ads more effective. Without effective ads, they won't make much money and we users won't get a good browser. Firefox also wouldn't be making much money from Google if Google can't make enough money to pay them. Basically we all need each other no matter how much we loathe one another.
All this said.. I run chrome with 25+ tabs, it crashes, or it crashes my computer. Firefox? Fine with 10+ windows, and over 100 tabs, no sweat, and no crashes... Despite the label, Chrome doesn't cut it.
If you mean 10 windows each have 100 tabs? Yeah that could be true. I once have like 2000+ tabs and firefox still running fine. They just sit idle and don't get loaded by default when browser just opened. They only get loaded and send net request if you click on them. I don't feel any lag with these amount of most idel Tabs stays along with my few opened Tabs.
That's always been the issue between Chrome and Firefox for me; Chrome with few windows/tabs/extensions takes less resources than Firefox with few windows/tab/extensions, but as soon as you start adding more tabs and windows, loading in more QoL extensions, the more bloated Chrome quickly becomes (in RAM usage) compared to Firefox. The common internet user probably isn't going to know what an extension IS, let alone install multiple of them, and like my mom, only uses 1 or 2 tabs at a time, so Chrome bloat will never be an issue for them.
I switched to Firefox about 6 months ago and haven't looked back since. One time I was with a friend and we were planning to download something and he opened Chrome and I was immediately disgusted by the barrage of Google Ads and logos everywhere. I absolutely resent Google Chrome and have switched all my friends and families to Firefox.
Brave would be a better option. Firefox may be more private, but on non-Windows platforms Firefox's security is much worse than Chromium's, and it's still weaker even on Windows. Brave gets you Chromium's security, good privacy, and the company's income doesn't come from Google.
my reason for sticking with Firefox is that it's built with privacy by default, but it's so extensible you can harden it even more and control hidden settings
Well, we CAN save Firefox. If we want an ad-free experience. Ironically there's an old game called: "Starve the Fox". What we can do is to actually fund Firefox with donations. The more people who donate, the stronger Firefox gets, and the less power Google will have. Are we willing to pay for an ad-free, non-spyware browser? Or are we content just complaining until its too late to do anything about this?
It's way too late. After ravishing funding their previous CEO despite Mozilla's death spiral, I have no interest in funding a corrupt organization. Maybe WebGTK on Linux (via GNOME Web / Epiphany), Ladybird or Servo could revive a second browser engine. But I'm not holding my breath.
That'd be great, except for the recent controversies surrounding the Mozilla Foundation that make it clear they won't be using your money for what you think they'll be using it.
i only care about two things in a browser: the existence of the LTS version (version that doesnt add more features and only applies bugfixes) of it, and also the fact it is open source. Of all the browsers, Firefox is *the* only one that has both of those things (firefox calls LTS as "ESR"). tragically, there is no firefox-esr version for android yet. there must be soon, cuz android is targeted by exploits from shady sites alot cuz many people use android.
What I don't understand why people are still not switching from Google chrome to Firefox? Especially after Chrome nuked ad blockers extensions? Ads and lack of privacy is much bigger issue than having slightly slower browser
The codebase is NCSA Mosaic (1993, source available through contract), Spyglass (1994, commercial, became I.E.), Netscape (1994, shareware, a.k.a. Nutscrape), Navigator (1995), Communicator (1997, became bloatware, eventually splits off Thunderbird, Seamonkey and more), Mozilla (1998, finally open sourced Communicator), Phoenix (2002, open sourced Navigator), Firebird (2003, renamed for trademark dispute), only then finally Firefox (2004, again over trademark).
I wish you were right. But if the general population were smart enough to care, they wouldn't be on Chrome right now. Frankly, I don't think they know the difference between the internet and the chrome browser. They just use what works for them. And google uses it to gently coax them into the chrome territory.
You could say it's not Firefox's fault, but when the website works in Chrome and doesn't in Firefox, the end user will only ever see it as a flaw in Firefox
Firefox is WAY faster then Chrome when I use it. I absolutely love it. Sometimes there are bugs on websites due to the prioritization for Chromium, but I have Chrome for some very small edge cases. For me I only notice problems on Google websites (haha). But as a developer myself, I put a lot of effort into prioritizing a consistent experience across Firefox/Chrome/Safari, etc. I hope that this starts changing.
FF is definitely faster if you change some things in about:config page. I don't know wtf Mozzila is thinking, but standard FF config only can use like 256 MB of disk cache and 256 MB of VRAM. Also there are some preloading/prefetching/prerendering settings. Dunno what exactly phc does, but turning it off feels like getting rid of constipation. Really some settings there look like they haven't been updated in two decades.
@majus1334 nah, it's Chromium based. It's also FOSS, but I don't use it because of the asshat CEO and crypto crap that is too much for me. I use a non FOSS browser because it's the only one I can stand. (Not Edge, Opera, or Chrome BTW). I did try Firefox a few times since I left it, but it's never been good enough for me to go back to it again. Even Floorp and Librewolf aren't as good.
What I love about your channel you follow your own unique content path. I never thought much about Firefox and now an interesting video for me to learn interesting things about the product I use occasionally. Keep up the good work man.
Noticed that TH-cam started running worse and worse on Firefox. So I did the only reasonable thing and started to double down on the things that didn't work as well and I'm still using Firefox. It's still not perfect, but it's a million times better than when ads froze, forcing me to wait in front of a black screen for minutes.
I’ve been a Firefox user since the Windows XP days. Recently however, I’ve been using Brave more than Firefox due to glitches on websites I frequent. My switch over to Brave was about three years ago, but I always keep Firefox installed on my PC to occasionally see if performance has improved and glitches were resolved… and for old time’s sake.
I keep seeing people complaining of bugs/glitches on FF, while I personally experienced none. I'd really love to know what are these glitches and on which sites they happen.
oh the answer is simple because mozilla keeps fuxing up everything people love about the browser the less unique features and less actually useful things (e.g. removing powerful extensions, removing rss feed reader, removing friggen page encoding selector) the less reason there is to use firefox as much as I love firefox and dislike chrome, I hate mozilla destroying everything firefox stood for...
@TheosTechTips At some point many years ago, firefox ended support for extensions that can alter the browser interface in mayor functional ways. In the past, firefox supported way more advanced extentions, then any whromium browser ever did, there was not a thing that could not be done. i for example, had an extension that could add extra bookmark bars, so you can have more bookmarks in view without having to use too many folders. Some people had very crazy tab management extensions and so on... This was no longer possible after. This is a long time ago, and some of these features have returned, and to be fair, other browsers never even offered this to begin with, but most of these extensions where never able to be re-created.
@@kiliandjfilms Oh wow I didn't even know those were a thing. I think ti has to do with the standardization of the WebExtension APIs, or the fact that it might have been abused.
Funny enough, I'm watching this video on Firefox right now. It's what I use when watching TH-cam on my Galaxy Tab since it supports extensions like UO on Android devices.
From what I remember, Chrome had a huge ad push during the time where people were looking for something to replace IE because of how bad it was. It felt like it just exploded in popularity overnight when I realized most of my friends back then started using it. It felt like Firefox was mostly known to the enthusiast market since they just couldn't advertise as much as Chrome could.
Google sabotaged Firefox market share by artificially preventing their sites from running on Firefox. Those artificial blocks were eventually removed, but each of those caused Firefox users to gradually bleed into the Chrome territory. This is how they gained usage over Firefox in their initial days.
If you put in the time and effort then you can learn to just give it generic information so that it is difficult for it to uniquely identify you (on desktop).
The irony for people who choose Firefox over Brave and other privacy first browsers is that actually less private. It has telemetry reporting on by default, and besides that, it just has a lot less anti fingerprinting and other privacy features built in. Using Firefox for privacy is like using bare Chromium for privacy. Sure, Google isn't tracking you anymore, but they browser ain't doing much to keep anyone else from doing so. Like really, a popup blocker and cross site cookie protection, that's it? Every single browser has had those things for nearly a decade, even freaking Chrome. I mean, Firefox has some actual privacy focused forks, use those instead. But when I see people actually seriously telling me to my face that Firefox is more private than Brave because Chromium can never be secure/private since it's made by Google, I just laugh. That is not how open source works. Also for the manifest v3 thing, a lot of people skip over the fact that it IS actually true that manifest v2 extensions are very resource hogging and manifest v3 is far more efficient. It's just that they probably could've accomplished that in a way that doesn't break adblock scripts.
I use firefox on both PC and mobile, being able to see youtube videos without adds is amazing and having the history and passwords shared across the devices is great if i'm away from the PC. I never faced issues with speed or faulty websites. To me the web browser is perfect really, never felt the need to use alternatives.
@azureaki Yes, but it will have security vulnerabilities that may not be patched once Mozilla goes down and it will increasingly be left behind by websites.
@ He’s right that it’s losing a lot of market share, but it’s not dead. Those market share numbers are heavily exacerbated by the 3 Billion Android devices that come preloaded with Chrome, as well as the PCs that come preloaded with Edge. So yeah, with the massive uplift in Smartphone sales driven largely by Android since 2007 and onwards, it does not surprise me that if you look at market share of all internet connected devices, you’ll come to that conclusion.
as unfortunate as it is, firefox needs to improve. i've had to move to chromium fork due to websites having glitches and issues that just aren't present on it, like having to clear my cache for a website each time because images wouldn't load.
Over a decade ago I switched from Firefox to Chrome. A few years ago I switched from Chrome to Brave. A few weeks ago I switched from Brave to Firefox.
What made you switch from Brave to Firefox? I've been a happy Brave user for a couple years, but now I'm reading some not so great things about it. Their statement about MV3 not affecting their ad block abilities has me concerned about promises they may not be able to keep.
I don't know what's the reason for others, but my personal reason was that since version 4.0 it started to greatly degrade in performance with every update, chasing Internet Explorer with its slowliness.
@@BillPinkNyeTrue, but once that information is public then I will use that information. Based upon the severity of that information it will steer my decision. Yes, there are other companies out there that may dabble in the curtails of the political left like, but Mozilla is on a whole different level. Also, yes, companies like Google may spy and steal my data, but for me the beds that Mozilla are part up are far worst for me. You might find other factors that steer your decisions, which is great. Follow the best practices for you and others will follow the best practices for them. In reality, for the browser market we need a third alternative that just wants to make a good browser.
Firefox is fun but it uses a crap ton of memory on my machine and it got to a point where one tab was using 80% of my ram and you could hear the fans sound like the machine is about to take off. When that happened i had to switch to Brave. That's really the only reason tho
I started having increasing issues when using Firefox, some things like Microsoft Teams and Facebook calling just refusing to work so i gave in and switched to Brave. Im fairly happy with it so far.
I still use Firefox! As of right now I'm am using it to watch this video. I occasionally use Chrome to connect to my other accounts without having to sign off on the ones here.
Started using Firefox again this month, and yeah, loving all the blocked ads. It even completely blocked popups and redirects that Samsung Browser and Edge couldn't.
Fun fact, most of the time, if something doesn't work on Firefox, changing your user agent to chrome make it mysteriously works just fine. Almost as if this was just sabotage. But hey, what do i know, right ?
So it's not just me then!
Some things didn't work even with switching user agent. That's where Brave comes in.
How do you switch user agent
@@jonathantheyorkie brave is a chromium browser
@@TheModeler99 with an extension
The biggest reason is Chrome is the default browser in Android and people are lazy in downloading a different browser.
True
Correct. Its inconvenient to download another browser. it will take you 5 minutes to download it. 5 minutes is very long nowadays.
Amazing how there hasn't been a lawsuit against it. Where you can basically site the same reason as Microsoft getting that anti trust lawsuit with explorer.
@@kosmosXcannon the "arbitration clause" you automatically agree to upon thinking of the phone you want to use in question:
Wrong. Samsung phones have that thing that Samsung calls Internet Browser (sorry but it's straight up terrible) and people switch to Chrome. I know that it's already pre installed but you still have to find it and replace the Samsung browser with Google Chrome.
Long time Firefox user here. Every time I've bought a new computer or phone from the late 2000s onwards, I've downloaded Firefox and transferred everything across. I'll continue to use Firefox for as long as it exists.
✅ Definitely .
Same here. I feel like i've been using Firefox since it's release at this point. I've never had any major issues with it as far as i can remember and will continue to use it for as long as i can.
Med too. I have seen no reason to switch. I have the Chrome browser too and use it ONLY when I want to search with google. But I use Firefox 99% of the time with Duck Duck Go as the search engine.
👍 Team FireFox
I really don't understand the appeal of the other browsers. How is performance even an issue?
A)Get firefox.
B)Get Ublock origin.
Bingo
Done.
If one is paranoid they can also use a "hardened" config for FF or install something like LibreWolf (Based on Firefox).
The best combo ever!
And, C) SponsorBlock for TH-cam.
AdBlocker Ultimate, Privacy Badger, uBlock Origin, SponsorBlock for TH-cam, Ghostery Tracker & Ad Blocker, CanvasBlocker... did i miss any?
5:13 "Why did Google give everyone their source code to build their own browsers?"
Because they had to. Chromium was built on Webkit, which was built on Konqueror/KHTML. The original open source GPL licensing still applies despite the monumental changes to the code base. They couldn't (legally) close it if they wanted to, at least not without auditing the code and reimplementing parts inherited from Webkit and KHTML.
I believe due to how code licensing works the GPL licensed code expanded in Blink as Chrome grew. The v8 JavaScript engine was not gpl licensed but has a permissive bsd type license.
Firefox uses the MPL which is a bsd type license. This is one big reason firefox declined. Permissive licenses don't force sharing.
But the real reason for Firefoxes decline is Mitchell, who drove it to the ground as ceo yet still is not fired to this day.
Three months ago I moved to Firefox, it feels faster than Chrome for my everyday tasks and it's not literal spyware
It's way faster than Chrome for everyday tasks *because* it's not literal spyware.
Switch to Brave.
It Blocks TH-cam Ads automatically.
Desktop and Mobile.
@@scottlee38 I use both plus Floorp and Vivaldi. It depends on what I'm doing but Firefox is my most used because of the abundance of useful extensions.
@@scottlee38 If I not wrong, Brave is using Chrome Engine....so, it is similar to Chrome.
@ Ah..
We might be doomed!
I never stopped using Firefox since like 2010, I dont know what anyone else even found worthy of complaining about, it always worked just fine for me.
Ublock Origin works on Firefox Android. Its huge.
What is the ram usage of firefox?
Less then chrome more then edge
me as well. when i occasionally have to use chrome i'm blown away by the ads. i dont know how people cope with them!
@@danielcooke9668 People are mostly idiots.
I still use firefox specifically because it's not chrome
RIGHT !!!!
if I need to use chromium I will edge instead of google chrome
@@danarj5713 I’m the same
Edge if I have no choice
regardless, the majority of sites visited are packed full with google analytics so they're getting your data and money anyway.
I'm used Chrome because it's not Firefox 👍
Firefox may be in decline, but its not Spyware like Chrome.
On my laptop, gaming PC, and phone, I use Firefox. At work, I have the choice between Chrome and Edge. This shows me pretty clearly, that FF's market share has little to do with user choice. Sometimes, a powerful multiplier like an employer enforces something that skews the statistics.
And all Android phones and Chromebooks ship with Google Chrome. Chromebooks are in the hands of basically every student in the public school system at this point.
it's not at 3%, it's just blocking the trackers so they don't see the people using the firefox. Enjoy your Chrome.
Yep, a bunch of people are also spoofing the signature, identifying themselves as something else than FF too.
@@majus1334 yeah the boomer Bob and Sally know how to spoof browsers and block trackers. Lol, touch some grass.
you really think you are safe in internet using Firefox ?
@@-Blue-_ You really think you're safe using anything?
This actually makes sense. Most people wanting to stay under the radar likes Firefox.
I have had issues with Chrome and Edge is just too bloated, but if I have to pick a secondary browser it'll be Edge if I'm on Windows.
Logically Answered: "The slow death of Firefox"
Me: **Laughs in Firefox**
😄🔥🦊
Fox best
I can never not use Firefox. Too good, far more trusting, and less restrictive than overlord browsers. I only use chrome for manga bookmarks lol. Slowly been replacing it with Brave over the years.
Laughs in lower fps UI
@@NicoTheCinderace Watching this video on Firefox & it's working perfectly fine & this guy in the video doesn't know what's he talking about
Firefox is my main browser and has been for over a decade
About 17 years here brother 🧡
Firefox is not going anywhere. Firefox was cool back then and it's cool right now. Google apps & TH-cam works perfectly fine in Firefox & this guy doesn't know what he's talking about. Don't let influencers get in your head & tell us it's over for Firefox. It's here to stay
@@tonopdebank6718 I've yet to have my tabs crash - except for that time I tried to load a 5 gb discord message log, but even chrome crashed on it
@@tonopdebank6718 Are you on an Intel computer running a 13th or 14th Gen chip?
If so, that's more likely a problem with your CPU than your browser.
15yrs
Clickbait title, clickbait thumbnails (yes, there are two, and both are clickbait), wrong facts, misinformation all around. Thumbs down.
BTW, I'm typing this comment on Firefox, using uBlock Origin, while running TH-cam Enhancer.
Yeah, this channel looks like an AI slop factory with bought out subscribers and comments
firefox is not declining because YOU are using it?
I am sorry, but Mozilla has been taken over by ad bussiness in 2024. Firefox now receives less support than ever as a product.
Yeah IMO you’re better off with a Firefox fork. Personally, I use Floorp on my desktop & Iceraven on my phone.
Firefox isn't "dead", it's just underground. As long as it's around, we're good. Things are going to change soon enough, am feeling the daily frustration of people with pointless ads/interruptions etc. There's going to be a breaking point eventually.
I love Firefox. Never going back.
Unfortunately, most people will not fight back against ads. Yes, they will complain. WHILE still watching ads...
Current trajectory of FF usage is it will go below 2%, which will trigger gov'ts & some corp sites from stopping worrying about FF compatibility.
Just like the Gopher & Gemini Protocols, sadly.
@@tombyrer1808 Oh no, whatever will we do without gov't and major corpo sites?? 😮😭
I have a hypothesis that the market share is so low because there are so many bots using chrome as a client artificially bloating the values.
It makes you wonder.
If you mean headless browsers, then I don't think they account for that much. 70% of visits are from phones, 70% of those use Android and 62% of those are Chrome as it's the default browser. There's where you get a lot of those numbers.
@@dominiksramko I'm mainly assuming these stats are collected from user agent values. So the client just picks whatever is popular to not get blocked.
@@dominiksramko phones are pretty common for bots because they are cheap and low power. ive seen farms with hundreds of phones hooked up and mounted on a wall.
@ It is based on user agent. You can check the FAQ on statcounter. They do mention making an effort to eliminate bot activity so it doesn't affect their statistics, but who knows how successful they are.
"The adoption of Chromium ... introduced ... HTML5" seriously what???
Also developer tools came from Firefox, not Chrome
Once he said that Firefox dominated and then showed at 30%, I knew to only trust what he said by his sources 😂 (which I've watched before, like Michael Horn)
just goes to show how to create a piece of garbage video with a clickbait title just to spice up your monetized videos..
@Cyb3rT3chz Not gonna get much monetization from us firefox users, we have adblockers
Actually yeah, HTML5 was introduced way back around 2010 by the organization that still holds the main control over Internet protocols, the W3C, which could shut Google Down in an instant if that org decided to by simply shifting internet protocols to something Google would find very unfriendly to their business model. W3C doesn't have any reason to do this so far, however, so they allow Google to do their thing.
developer tools in firefox doesnt let you download videos
firefox is our school's default browser that we install on every new pc
Clickbait much? You didn't even bother justifying an answer to the question on your title, aside from providing surface level common knowledge that most people already know. I bet that the script for this video was AI generated.
The captions left in a note from the script about when to use certain footage lol
I think those clickbait is why we need extension like DeArrow
@@Chubby_Bub oh that's so hilarious. I can see one of those instructions at 1:03
i know that your existence is probably AI generated, you cant have a coherent thought when someone doesnt praise a product you use
I've been using Firefox for 15+ years. I have no desire to switch to anything else.
I would only consider switching if Chrome on Android gets extension support. Right now, Chrome is simply behind and has been for a while. Also it should allow to access WebView settings.
Same here.
Same, I use Firefox 99% of the time, since the mid aughts. I use Brave for some of my google email accounts, and I'm keeping an eye on ladybird as a backup if s**t hits the fan, but I will not abandon Firefox unless it becomes impossible for me to download, install, and use it.
@@MJ-uk6lu ... how behind are we talking about? because chrome has had extension support for...well, a very ,very long time. I think 2009. So if that's what you were waiting for you might have missed the boat of that one. As for WebView settings, what?
@@AlucardNoirthey're talking about the Android version of chrome
I find that many people have no idea what a browser or a web page is. They just use "the internet" or "my phone".
You mean dumb people? This is like Kathy Hochel trying to explain that black ppl don't know what a laptop is.
Yeah, "people"! Phuck 'em!
Ehh, this is normal. Back in the mid 2000's, people would just refer to IE as "The Internet" or even assumed AOL was "The Internet".
@@NoName-rl3fh Most ppl couldn't tell you what a tower is now.
Too true. "URL" also is a mystery word for many. Is it laziness? A lack of curiosity? Fear? (A computer is a tad more complex than a hammer... who knows what it might do?)...
Been using Firefox since Windows Vista, never even considered looking back. Open source, best privacy practices, and most important to me, not based on Chromium
What default browser do you use though?
@@real_mvp3811 Is that a sincere question? Firefox. It has been since Vista. Every OS I've had since then I have installed Firefox and set it as my OS's default. I'm a Windows power user. Changing the default browser and programs is a pretty basic thing to do for a power user
"best privacy practices"
Firefox has the best privacy practices. In practice, Brave has more privacy.
@@wisenber Does it though? Chromium, based browsers are required to adhere to Google's Chromium policies. A browser is only as private as the backend that runs it and Google is that backend for Chromium. Brave is Chromium based. I suppose you missed the part of my comment where I said "most important to me, not based on Chromium"
Interesting how you missed that considering that the quote you pulled is directly beside the quote I just provided
@@wisenber Agreed. 💪😎
Adblockers work better in Firefox
I have used Firefox since the very first release back in 2004. It doesnt eat memory as bad as Chrome and I can block youtube ads. I can highlight text, right click, and delete. The built in screenshot tool is awesome. The biggest reason it fell behind is because network admins tend to use Edge or Chromium. Also, the average person is an NPC that defaults to edge or Chrome. Personally I cant stand chromium. Brave is the most tolerable chromium browser, but Firefox is better.
One thing i will never understand is the EUs antitrust lawsuits regarding browsers. The EU sued the crap out of Microsoft for having Explorer as default browser in Windows but they haven't done the same to either iPhone or Android that comes preloaded with Safari/Chrome or that Chrome OS comes preloaded with Chrome in the same way Internet Explorer was sued for.
Apple's market share is so low that the EU don't care about it as much. It was an issue with Microsoft because Windows has over 90% market share at the time.
The EU did force Google to pay a fine and Chrome isn't loaded by default on new Android devices. Instead you're given a browser install prompt on device load up. The fine came in 2018 and the removal of chrome as default takes full effect this year.
@@Daniel15auand despite that Apple got the sideloading decision and the payment one too so it would seem that the EU does care about what Apple does.
but yeah, i think it is also true that Google does not get the same treatment as Microsoft did - if not on how closely linked things are but rather the way they seem to slow down other browsers accessing their products (like youtube or google docs… ) so yeah… there would be grounds for investigation
if disproportionate treatment, follow the money.
That's because they are not monopolies like MS Windows was on desktops back in the day. Worse off is the fact that while the iPhone might have a majority of the market in some countries in the EU, it does not have such a majority for the entire EU. Similarly, Android is fragmented with many manufacturers putting their own browsers on the phone and while I haven't set up a new phone in a few years, I think you can select your browser from a list here in the EU so they wouldn't be sued over that.
Google's old motto, "Don't be evil" was abandoned long ago. Their motto today should be, "We replaced the devil."
Evil Microsoft: "We bought out and closed or assimilated most of our small and medium competition, as well as most promising software companies with that MS-DOS money. We also started bundling our own internet explorer for free with Win OS, killing all companies who were selling them. FU Netscape! Our OS is now installed on almost 80% of world's computers."
Google: "Hold my beer!"
I say they just added a period. "Don't. Be evil."
When they said that, they meant, "Don't be Republican."
I think their new motto basically is "Don't be evil towards our shareholders (we don't care about anyone else)."
Ironically I went back to Firefox from Chrome this month.
Same it covers TH-cam ads completely. No regrets
Welcome back, brother!
I've used FF continuously since it was first ported to Windows. I don't understand why anybody ever switched to other browsers.
I think is a combination of factors. I've been using Firefox since it exists, and will continue to do so. However, I'm not a fan of a lot of decisions by Mozilla. The big "G" as dominant is a thing, of course, but Mozilla contributed too to people leaving FF with some controversial decisions.
We need competition and alternatives. Is bad that all is Chromium based.
I hope FF keeps existing, but Mozilla should stop shooting their own feet too.
Other than google doc, I never found Chrome to be faster than Firefox.
i still use firefox and i will continue using it
BRO WTF The fox is still alive and kicking far better than chrome or edge
Based
Most of their operating income comes from Google, so that is the primary risk
@@zandr0not anymore google got forced to stop paying them to use google as default due to a monopoly case in the US supreme court
@@SuperEpicCookies Thank god.
@@SuperEpicCookies so who's paying them now?
If they just made all the ads to be non-intrusive, most people wouldn't install ad blockers.
If internet ads were as harmless as newspaper ads, I wouldn't be bothered enough to block them.
Ads are still basically bloat of internet. Nobody cares about making legit ads there and most ads are just made as quickly and as cheaply as possible. It should be called not ad blocking, but resisting crappy software.
@@InventorZahran There is more to internet ads than just product promotion. It is backed by surveillance capitalism feeding an obscure, but massive black market for illegally traded personal information, complete with dedicated data brokers mediating the deals. It's a criminal enterprise - pure and simple. Absolutely no need to entertain it.
i would still and so would a lot of others. i dislike ads like you dislike poop
Ads on TV or Newspaper are fine. But on internet, meh
When I build or update a website, I test everything in Firefox. If everything works in Firefox, then I check Chrome and Chromium. I do not have a current MacOS system, or I would check it in Safari as well, as I used to do that.
Thanks for the reminder to pref Firefox when web browsing.
Always great to view your videos. The delivery/style is always smooth, direct, never rushed or confabulated. And you back up with verifications.
Best with your works.
Could it be possible that these browser usage stats are skewed? Perhaps since many firefox users use privacy addons, those are blocking the usage stats for firefox, translating to a lower than actual usage percentage?
Possibly, but also consider that since Firefox's high point internet usage on phones has gone from a niche thing to the most common method of internet browsing. Almost 100% of those phones are on Chrome or Safari, Firefox is mostly for PC so it's a segment of the smaller market.
@@fix0the0spade Yeah that definitely skews things
while true, maybe some of it would be more accurate (excluding those who spoof the user agent), as Google Analytics for example is offering server-side analytics (where instead of the website relying on a script on each user's browser to collect the data and send it back, it'll be measured on the same servers hosting the website/webapp the user is using)
so in which case your best defense would be trying to use something that blends users together and actually resists fingerprinting, as the days of simply being able to block third party tracking/fingerprinting scripts to opt-out on most websites are numbered.
Edit: Of course stuff that is designed to resist or randomize fingerprinting even for unknown or server-side trackers (e.g. LibreWolf, Brave, Mulvad Browser or TOR Browser) has drawbacks on convenience and may break features you'd like or need to use on some webapps/sites.
@@fix0the0spade Firefox has been my main & favorite browser for 15~20 years on desktop, which is STILL where I do almost all of my internet browsing, but I never installed it on my iphone because I recall reading that it lacked some basic feature like syncing bookmarks between phone & computer, which would be an absolute necessity for me.
But I'm scrolling through reviews on the app page now (both good & bad rated reviews) and can't find any mention of that being a problem, so now I don't know if my memory is effing with me. Although the amount of bugs of being complained about is still pretty daunting. So many that are serious functionality issues, and are repeated my many people, and are all from within the last few months. Plus there are features that people complain it lacks which developers respond confirming is the case (usually blaming "iOS limitations). So regardless what I did or didn't read in the past, it seems clear that the mobile version of Firefox is far inferior to the desktop version, and this may be a large factor in why so few people use it on their phones.
i don't think that matters. as in the http headers, there's a string called "user-agent" that has that information. it's how a website knows that you are on a phone for example so it can automaticly send teh more fitting version to your mobile for optimum user experience.
Chrome is so slow. Bad privacy issues
I use safari. its chrome light, it has less features, they steal my data, but I can have hundreds of tabs open without bricking my laptop. It is a good laptop though.
Unfortunately true
Not as slow as firefox was at the time everyone started switching. Firefox died years ago
v8 engine, the underlying js engine that chrome is built on is the most performant in the browser engine space. So no chrome is definetly not slow.
@@rohithkumarbandariHowever, Chrome does not have ad blockers built in, and no downloaded extensions. Therefore all the banner ads, data collection, trackers, etc. significantly slow down the browsing experience. These ads slow down the performance as its running in the background and gigging RAM. Firefox for Android has extensions you can download including ad blockers and other things.
I moved back to Firefox because of the Adblock BS.
Anyone who uses Firefox would never switch to Chrome, EVER.
Firefox is my favorite browser. I also use a derivative of Firefox called Waterfox,
I have no problem with ads. But I have serious problems with too many ads and intrusive ads.
Get a VPN and look for a country with shorter, less ads. i like switzerland in that regard.
I won't ever support anything other than first-party (same-domain) static ads. I'm not going to feed the criminal enterprise called the modern ad industry.
@@schorsch5677 Thanks!
A bit of a clickbait title, no?
Yep. Worked with me.
Yep...a little sad to see
video literally starts out by saying firefox marketshare has gone from 30% to 3%
tiktok must have ruined your ability to retain information for longer than 10 minutes or something
sure he says later people have abandoned chrome on the grounds of privacy and the youtube adblock situation. but you already know that is a small minority of people.
the vast majority of internet users just use chrome because that's what everyone else uses. privacy and convenience be damned.
30% -> 3% sounds like a tragic decline to me
Dont comment on that kind of vid. Comment is what they want.
Now aday I just dislike and may be block channel entirely or report in some case.
Windows:❌
Chrome:❌
Linux:✅
Firefox:✅
Related - Linux Zorin has been great on a old PC
...one without the required hardware to upgrade to Windows 11
A strong second, Kubuntu, Mint, third.
Firefox is too buggy on Linux, had to switch to Brave.
@necuz brave is a firefox reskin y'knew that ? Try librewolf too
edit:apparently its based on chromium 😨
@ Chrome works great on Linux :)
I know, sacrilege
fedora baby
The comment section is so full of smug firefox users.
It's me. I'm a smug firefox user.
I use Firefox since 2016. I like my privacy and I don't intend to swich to Chrome or anything else.
Librewolf and Waterfox might be more your thing, then. They remove a lot of telemetry and other nonsense. Librewolf is the more extreme option, likely to cause site breakages due to how much it removes.
With all due respect. This video is incomplete at best. Take a look at Firefox's non-technical problems. The Mozilla Foundation already expressed their will to change from a Browser company to a "group of global activists".
Aside from that, they had a lot of drama in the last decade, like the acquisition of pocket and the bonuses some executives received while the market share for Firefox plummeted.
"We need to go beyond deplatforming" or something like that, a few years ago, and the crazy investments of the firefox (mozila?) foundation made me quit, i used it since its release, but oh well...
Firefox kicked itself out of my life. Thanks for reminding me why...I'm now a brave due to Zuck drinking water like a duck.
this. The rest of the comments down here seem to ignore this
Parallel to that, Firefox had massive performance issues and insane memory leakage for a while. I never even noticed the activism, but performing like a slug and making my PC stutter is an absolute no-go for a browser. It became bloatware.
@@maxgehtdnixan4913 The mem-leak era was bad, only a few years but it was rough.
Brave with that built in adblock is why I switched. YT is supposedly cracking down on adblock, but I haven't had an issue with Brave (yet)
Obligatory "But Brave is basically Chrome" meme
Brave has to keep changing its ad blockers to keep up with Google's constant crackdown. So as long as you keep updating the app, then you're good. But the issue is Brave drops support on older devices (on Android and iOS) so you're screwed if your phone's OS is outdated (can't update app, therefore ad blockers will not work anymore)... However, Firefox has extremely long app support, currently it still supports Android 5.0. Plus, Firefox has downloadble extensions while Chromium based browsers don't, so there are different ad blockers you can use and other extra things (I use one called Popup Blocker strict which is a much stronger kind of popup/dialog message blocker)
@ I have no issue running most chrome extensions on Brave. Might be an issue later, but it isn't right now.
Brave will get much more inferior at adblocking because of Google. It can't keep supporting ManifestV2 when it's dropped from Chromium, hence why it's better to just use Firefox.
uBlock Origin can bypass it.
I'm using both Chrome and Firefox at the same time. Most people don't care about the privacy level of a web browser, people just want a good product. Chrome needs users data to make their ads more effective. Without effective ads, they won't make much money and we users won't get a good browser. Firefox also wouldn't be making much money from Google if Google can't make enough money to pay them. Basically we all need each other no matter how much we loathe one another.
All this said.. I run chrome with 25+ tabs, it crashes, or it crashes my computer. Firefox? Fine with 10+ windows, and over 100 tabs, no sweat, and no crashes... Despite the label, Chrome doesn't cut it.
If you mean 10 windows each have 100 tabs? Yeah that could be true.
I once have like 2000+ tabs and firefox still running fine. They just sit idle and don't get loaded by default when browser just opened. They only get loaded and send net request if you click on them. I don't feel any lag with these amount of most idel Tabs stays along with my few opened Tabs.
That's always been the issue between Chrome and Firefox for me; Chrome with few windows/tabs/extensions takes less resources than Firefox with few windows/tab/extensions, but as soon as you start adding more tabs and windows, loading in more QoL extensions, the more bloated Chrome quickly becomes (in RAM usage) compared to Firefox.
The common internet user probably isn't going to know what an extension IS, let alone install multiple of them, and like my mom, only uses 1 or 2 tabs at a time, so Chrome bloat will never be an issue for them.
I switched to Firefox about 6 months ago and haven't looked back since. One time I was with a friend and we were planning to download something and he opened Chrome and I was immediately disgusted by the barrage of Google Ads and logos everywhere. I absolutely resent Google Chrome and have switched all my friends and families to Firefox.
Brave would be a better option. Firefox may be more private, but on non-Windows platforms Firefox's security is much worse than Chromium's, and it's still weaker even on Windows. Brave gets you Chromium's security, good privacy, and the company's income doesn't come from Google.
my reason for sticking with Firefox is that it's built with privacy by default, but it's so extensible you can harden it even more and control hidden settings
One's really feel special when are in the 1% of people watching this video from Ubuntu in Firefox.
I am watching in Mint/Firefox :)
fedora/firefox baby lets go
@@starlit-c8j same with librewolf
Kali/Chrome
@@chownful Kali and Chrome. It looks strange, doesn't?
Mozilla is the problem with Firefox. Always has been.
1:03 Eric Murphy ❤️❤️❤️
2:48 Michael Horn ❤️❤️
8:48 Linus ❤️
9:24 Theo
"There is no free lunch" - Google and Meta. If something is free, you are the product.
In fairness, Firefox is also free.
Well, we CAN save Firefox. If we want an ad-free experience. Ironically there's an old game called: "Starve the Fox".
What we can do is to actually fund Firefox with donations. The more people who donate, the stronger Firefox gets, and the less power Google will have.
Are we willing to pay for an ad-free, non-spyware browser? Or are we content just complaining until its too late to do anything about this?
You can only donate for mozilla, how they use the money is their decision and you might want to cheque their website.
It's way too late. After ravishing funding their previous CEO despite Mozilla's death spiral, I have no interest in funding a corrupt organization.
Maybe WebGTK on Linux (via GNOME Web / Epiphany), Ladybird or Servo could revive a second browser engine. But I'm not holding my breath.
That'd be great, except for the recent controversies surrounding the Mozilla Foundation that make it clear they won't be using your money for what you think they'll be using it.
i only care about two things in a browser: the existence of the LTS version (version that doesnt add more features and only applies bugfixes) of it, and also the fact it is open source. Of all the browsers, Firefox is *the* only one that has both of those things (firefox calls LTS as "ESR").
tragically, there is no firefox-esr version for android yet. there must be soon, cuz android is targeted by exploits from shady sites alot cuz many people use android.
POV: Watching this on Firefox
What I don't understand why people are still not switching from Google chrome to Firefox? Especially after Chrome nuked ad blockers extensions? Ads and lack of privacy is much bigger issue than having slightly slower browser
The codebase is NCSA Mosaic (1993, source available through contract), Spyglass (1994, commercial, became I.E.), Netscape (1994, shareware, a.k.a. Nutscrape), Navigator (1995), Communicator (1997, became bloatware, eventually splits off Thunderbird, Seamonkey and more), Mozilla (1998, finally open sourced Communicator), Phoenix (2002, open sourced Navigator), Firebird (2003, renamed for trademark dispute), only then finally Firefox (2004, again over trademark).
Phoenix and Thunderbird split off from Mozilla (which then turned into SeaMonkey).
Great content as always but the background song is too loud
Thanks for the feedback man!
I always dislike anything with background music, so that's about 3/4 of videos these days...
Wait until mv2 is finally no longer available, sometime before 2026,
which I think will be the year of firefox.
I wish you were right. But if the general population were smart enough to care, they wouldn't be on Chrome right now. Frankly, I don't think they know the difference between the internet and the chrome browser. They just use what works for them. And google uses it to gently coax them into the chrome territory.
I'm watching this on firefox. Dumped chrome and edge because they wore me out with the ads and didn't like the spying AT ALL.
Try Brave or Zen.
bro if a website breaks its not firefoxs fault. Litterly all decent devs know they should take firefox into account when building a website
You could say it's not Firefox's fault, but when the website works in Chrome and doesn't in Firefox, the end user will only ever see it as a flaw in Firefox
Firefox is WAY faster then Chrome when I use it. I absolutely love it. Sometimes there are bugs on websites due to the prioritization for Chromium, but I have Chrome for some very small edge cases. For me I only notice problems on Google websites (haha). But as a developer myself, I put a lot of effort into prioritizing a consistent experience across Firefox/Chrome/Safari, etc. I hope that this starts changing.
FF is definitely faster if you change some things in about:config page. I don't know wtf Mozzila is thinking, but standard FF config only can use like 256 MB of disk cache and 256 MB of VRAM. Also there are some preloading/prefetching/prerendering settings. Dunno what exactly phc does, but turning it off feels like getting rid of constipation. Really some settings there look like they haven't been updated in two decades.
The NSA requires chrome and Microsoft.
Firefox and Brave are *better* than Chrome. Period. They're not what you call privacy-focused.
Brave *_is_* Chrome.
@majus1334 nah, it's Chromium based. It's also FOSS, but I don't use it because of the asshat CEO and crypto crap that is too much for me. I use a non FOSS browser because it's the only one I can stand. (Not Edge, Opera, or Chrome BTW).
I did try Firefox a few times since I left it, but it's never been good enough for me to go back to it again. Even Floorp and Librewolf aren't as good.
i still use firefox. Everytime im want to switch i endup back to ff just because ux logic.
I prefer Firefox over google. That new manifest update for Chrome caused a lot of issues.
Firefox + uBlock + arkenfox = S tier
What I love about your channel you follow your own unique content path. I never thought much about Firefox and now an interesting video for me to learn interesting things about the product I use occasionally. Keep up the good work man.
Thank you man! Def try to go for undercovered topics
after 8 years of chrome use i recently moved to firefox, as a developer i'm concerned about my privacy.
Firefox doesn't have good features for downloading
Like what? Some extension like a download manager?
@majus1334 in mobile, firefox's download manager is not as good as chrome cause I can only pause and resume downloading content in notifications.
Noticed that TH-cam started running worse and worse on Firefox. So I did the only reasonable thing and started to double down on the things that didn't work as well and I'm still using Firefox. It's still not perfect, but it's a million times better than when ads froze, forcing me to wait in front of a black screen for minutes.
I’ve been a Firefox user since the Windows XP days. Recently however, I’ve been using Brave more than Firefox due to glitches on websites I frequent. My switch over to Brave was about three years ago, but I always keep Firefox installed on my PC to occasionally see if performance has improved and glitches were resolved… and for old time’s sake.
I keep seeing people complaining of bugs/glitches on FF, while I personally experienced none. I'd really love to know what are these glitches and on which sites they happen.
crazy i have been using firefox since like 2006, i hope it keeps going
I abandoned Chrome forever for fighting an unworthy cause (Blockers ARE needed, especially today), and came back to Firefox.
The bookmarks window. It's always open on the left. I don't have to click to open it. That's why I've been using Firefox for 20 years.
I have and will always use Firefox as my default brower even on my phone i use it.
Googles now famous motto: "Always be evil".
don't be evil, be greedy
oh the answer is simple
because mozilla keeps fuxing up everything people love about the browser
the less unique features and less actually useful things (e.g. removing powerful extensions, removing rss feed reader, removing friggen page encoding selector) the less reason there is to use firefox
as much as I love firefox and dislike chrome, I hate mozilla destroying everything firefox stood for...
Removing powerful extensions? What are you talking about? What extensions?
@TheosTechTips At some point many years ago, firefox ended support for extensions that can alter the browser interface in mayor functional ways.
In the past, firefox supported way more advanced extentions, then any whromium browser ever did, there was not a thing that could not be done.
i for example, had an extension that could add extra bookmark bars, so you can have more bookmarks in view without having to use too many folders.
Some people had very crazy tab management extensions and so on...
This was no longer possible after.
This is a long time ago, and some of these features have returned, and to be fair, other browsers never even offered this to begin with, but most of these extensions where never able to be re-created.
@@kiliandjfilms Oh wow I didn't even know those were a thing. I think ti has to do with the standardization of the WebExtension APIs, or the fact that it might have been abused.
I heard some conspiracy theory that Google maintains Firefox to have an excuse to say that they aren't a monopoly?
No you're provably right. Though that doesn't seem to be working because Google seems to be in anti-trust trouble with the US government.
Watching this in Firefox Developer Edition makes me proud. I've never used Chrome, hate that shit.
Funny enough, I'm watching this video on Firefox right now. It's what I use when watching TH-cam on my Galaxy Tab since it supports extensions like UO on Android devices.
From what I remember, Chrome had a huge ad push during the time where people were looking for something to replace IE because of how bad it was. It felt like it just exploded in popularity overnight when I realized most of my friends back then started using it. It felt like Firefox was mostly known to the enthusiast market since they just couldn't advertise as much as Chrome could.
Google sabotaged Firefox market share by artificially preventing their sites from running on Firefox. Those artificial blocks were eventually removed, but each of those caused Firefox users to gradually bleed into the Chrome territory. This is how they gained usage over Firefox in their initial days.
Willingly installing spyware to me is crazy
@@Simon45-v9t Exactly. Get that Recall crap out of my face.
If you put in the time and effort then you can learn to just give it generic information so that it is difficult for it to uniquely identify you (on desktop).
The irony for people who choose Firefox over Brave and other privacy first browsers is that actually less private. It has telemetry reporting on by default, and besides that, it just has a lot less anti fingerprinting and other privacy features built in.
Using Firefox for privacy is like using bare Chromium for privacy. Sure, Google isn't tracking you anymore, but they browser ain't doing much to keep anyone else from doing so. Like really, a popup blocker and cross site cookie protection, that's it? Every single browser has had those things for nearly a decade, even freaking Chrome.
I mean, Firefox has some actual privacy focused forks, use those instead. But when I see people actually seriously telling me to my face that Firefox is more private than Brave because Chromium can never be secure/private since it's made by Google, I just laugh. That is not how open source works.
Also for the manifest v3 thing, a lot of people skip over the fact that it IS actually true that manifest v2 extensions are very resource hogging and manifest v3 is far more efficient. It's just that they probably could've accomplished that in a way that doesn't break adblock scripts.
I use firefox on both PC and mobile, being able to see youtube videos without adds is amazing and having the history and passwords shared across the devices is great if i'm away from the PC.
I never faced issues with speed or faulty websites.
To me the web browser is perfect really, never felt the need to use alternatives.
The fact that Mozilla decided to accept Google's offer shows you that good doesn't always win over evil.
Death of Firefox? Get off the crack bro. You’re tweaking
Nah, he's right. Good luck using it once Mozilla sinks into a death spiral.
@@cameronbosch1213 Bro was like:
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- But I can still use it now????
@azureaki Yes, but it will have security vulnerabilities that may not be patched once Mozilla goes down and it will increasingly be left behind by websites.
@ He’s right that it’s losing a lot of market share, but it’s not dead. Those market share numbers are heavily exacerbated by the 3 Billion Android devices that come preloaded with Chrome, as well as the PCs that come preloaded with Edge. So yeah, with the massive uplift in Smartphone sales driven largely by Android since 2007 and onwards, it does not surprise me that if you look at market share of all internet connected devices, you’ll come to that conclusion.
@@azureaki good luck using it once Mozilla stops maintaing it.
as unfortunate as it is, firefox needs to improve. i've had to move to chromium fork due to websites having glitches and issues that just aren't present on it, like having to clear my cache for a website each time because images wouldn't load.
Over a decade ago I switched from Firefox to Chrome. A few years ago I switched from Chrome to Brave. A few weeks ago I switched from Brave to Firefox.
What made you switch from Brave to Firefox? I've been a happy Brave user for a couple years, but now I'm reading some not so great things about it. Their statement about MV3 not affecting their ad block abilities has me concerned about promises they may not be able to keep.
I don't know what's the reason for others, but my personal reason was that since version 4.0 it started to greatly degrade in performance with every update, chasing Internet Explorer with its slowliness.
didn't get the notification of this video today !! am subscribed and notif is on too
Main reason not to use Firefox? The Mozilla foundation itself.
You can say that about literally any company. Just because their short comings aren't public, doesn't mean they aren't there.
@@BillPinkNyeTrue, but once that information is public then I will use that information. Based upon the severity of that information it will steer my decision.
Yes, there are other companies out there that may dabble in the curtails of the political left like, but Mozilla is on a whole different level.
Also, yes, companies like Google may spy and steal my data, but for me the beds that Mozilla are part up are far worst for me. You might find other factors that steer your decisions, which is great. Follow the best practices for you and others will follow the best practices for them.
In reality, for the browser market we need a third alternative that just wants to make a good browser.
Then what browser one should use? If Mozilla is out of question, google is too.
Firefox is fun but it uses a crap ton of memory on my machine and it got to a point where one tab was using 80% of my ram and you could hear the fans sound like the machine is about to take off. When that happened i had to switch to Brave. That's really the only reason tho
I started having increasing issues when using Firefox, some things like Microsoft Teams and Facebook calling just refusing to work so i gave in and switched to Brave. Im fairly happy with it so far.
I still use Firefox! As of right now I'm am using it to watch this video. I occasionally use Chrome to connect to my other accounts without having to sign off on the ones here.
Started using Firefox again this month, and yeah, loving all the blocked ads. It even completely blocked popups and redirects that Samsung Browser and Edge couldn't.