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I Switched to Firefox and Never Looked Back

https://www.howtogeek.com/why-i-switched-to-firefox-and-never-looked-back/
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This seems like a good place to mention my favorite Firefox Addon for Android: https://github.com/mozilla/video-bg-play

Some days ago I was wondering how it works and was kinda surprised just now that this is from mozilla itself. Reading the project Readme makes this even straight up sound like a privacy addon. I wonder why this is not natively supported.

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Been pretty happy with Firefox after changing some default settings, but I still have what I assume is a bug where add-ons keep getting disabled every time I start up the browser. Only solution I've seen so far is deleting all add-on files on my computer, but nuking all settings is a bit extreme with all the time that went into the configuration in the first place.
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I'm on a Mac, so I use Safari, too, but were I on any other platform I can't imagine NOT using Firefox.

How did we get to a point where the dominant browser is designed to be hostile to user choice?

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I'm glad the writer is enjoying Firefox, but posts like these make me realize we've forgotten how to use computers.

Built-in screenshot tool? "You don't need to install extensions"! Really? Dude just press Print Screen, it even works outside a browser, if one day you have to be put through the unspeakable torture of using a native application! Single-use burner emails are also nice and all, but why exactly does this have to be linked to my browser?

Of course switching browsers it's gonna be a big deal, when you actively walk out of your way to lock yourself to your browser's "ecosystem", but better Mozilla than Google I guess.

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