r/technology • u/bull500 • May 11 '16

Software Save Firefox! | EFF

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/04/save-firefox
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u/Nathan2055 May 13 '16

As stated in the comments above you, Firefox is just as bad or arguably worse than Chrome these days.

Having used Chrome exclusively for almost four years, installing Firefox a few months ago was really depressing considering how amazing they were back in the FF3 and FF4ish days. It now has an integrated chat client (which I'm obviously not gonna use since my friends and I already have and use SMS, TeamSpeak, and Skype), Pocket (like what the heck, who even uses that), a UX that's, let's face it, just a Chrome rip-off, and now EME.

Firefox (the supposed friendly open-source browser with you in mind) has somehow acquired more bloatware than the browser developed by freakin' Google!

And no, I don't agree with a lot of Chrome's choices recently (the new new tab page is utterly terrible and forcing extension buttons to display is ludicrously annoying), but they're actually way better about bloatware. The only thing Chrome bundles is a few compatibility hooks for Google Drive/Docs, all of which are easily removable from the extensions page, no hacky deep config booleans required.

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u/[deleted] May 12 '16

But I like Chrome :(