Google to Firefox?

[DiffydaDude]

well..
i use firefox, and i like it, but there is some really weird stuff going on here right now. from what little i understand, google was funding firefox but they can't anymore because of the antitrust lawsuit so firefox is going to be an ad supported browser

i basically only use it at this point because manifest 3.0 and i want my godamn adblocker

Note about this: i saw a post online on a reddit thread saying that its not manifest v3 in its entirety thats trying to block adblock, but only chrome's implementation of it thats doing it I think.

[bees]

I've been using firefox since the early 00s and I definitely prefer to Chrome. Worst case scenario, I'll just find a fork of it. I can't imagine using Chrome except when I have to.

[ThunderPerfectWitchcraft]

Do you like searx or startpage better? I've used searx for a bit but it's got some things it could improve on tbh. I'd love something more optimized.

To my experience, it differs from query to query and also between different SearX-Instances (I use the neocity-thing that always gives me another one). Sometimes I get only crap-results with it, but usually they are on-par with Startpage.

[_ghost_]

I still use Chrome for convenience in regards to school and business, but I've been using firefox for all personal internet usage for almost a year now, and I think it was a good decision. I installed a free adblocker and use duckduckgo as my main search engine and it's honestly crazy how much this improved my internet experience. Switching over is incredibly easy and overall really positive. I would like to be able to completely cut google out of my life, but that won't be able to happen while I'm in school, since the school uses gmail and google drive for nearly everything, but having school and play in separate browsers is honestly kind of nice, anyway.

It probably doesn't make that much of a difference in reality, especially since I don't know a lot about web design or coding and mainly hang out on tumblr, so a lot of the actual differences in functionality don't really come up in my usage, but overall I think firefox is better and would recommend it.