Firefox

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Why hackers recommend it

“This time it’s been great”
Swalden123, 2026-09-01original comment ↗
“No real complaints so far, haven't really noticed any difference from Chrome to be honest which is about as good a recommendation as I could give.”
stillpointlab, 2026-08-31original comment ↗
“These days I'd recommend Firefox.”
handoflixue, 2026-07-08original comment ↗
“Firefox respects the user's choices for ad blockers, and doesn't force local AI models on them.”
englens, 2026-06-17original comment ↗
“I moved from Chrome back to Firefox, and Gemini was great at finding equivalents for my most-used extensions”
Jordan-117, 2026-06-09original comment ↗
“Firefox _is_ a good alternative to chrome, though, by the arguments OP brought.”
freehorse, 2026-05-05original comment ↗
“I love Firefox and still use it on desktop but I couldn't handle it without extensions on mobile and switched to Brave.”
mzmzmzm, 2026-04-25original comment ↗
“I haven't been super happy with Mozilla's management of Firefox, although it's my daily driver and a great browser.”
drzaiusx11, 2026-01-24original comment ↗
“I can use real Firefox!”
coldpie, 2025-12-28original comment ↗
“Firefox was better”
Zak, 2025-12-16original comment ↗
“I switched from Chrome to FF and FF hard-locks 3x a day for me now.”
conartist6, 2025-12-10original comment ↗

What hackers criticize

“I switched from Firefox on macos and ios about a year ago when things started to get a bit weird with Mozilla.”
B4uler5, 2026-10-14original comment ↗
“I'd've guessed Mozilla could be convinced to revert, but Google presumably paid them enough to look the other way.”
za_creature, 2026-08-02original comment ↗
“Switched from firefox few months ago, I don't like google, but firefox has only few percent of market share currenly, many pages simply do not work properly with it,…”read full quote
“Switched from firefox few months ago, I don't like google, but firefox has only few percent of market share currenly, many pages simply do not work properly with it, plus it has bugs on macos”
comboy, 2026-07-06original comment ↗
“I switched from Firefox to Chrome out of desperation and it worked without a hitch.”
wwizo, 2026-06-19original comment ↗
“Firefox always dragged its feet when it came to implementing important developer features.”
m-schuetz, 2026-06-10original comment ↗
“It's too bad that the Mozilla Foundation has changed course and is now adamant that Firefox be as unusable as possible.”
dlcarrier, 2026-05-03original comment ↗
“Mozilla kill when it moved from XUL to web extension. Mozilla is run by people who don't use Firefox nor care.”
hexage1814, 2026-03-06original comment ↗
“Firefox took years to catch up with that.”
Zak, 2025-12-17original comment ↗
“FF is too janky to be a good web browser... It's just lipstick on a pig.”
conartist6, 2025-12-10original comment ↗
“Mozilla did lose their way.”
Amezarak, 2025-12-02original comment ↗

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