• shadowSprite@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Honestly, I’ve just switched from Brave to Firefox after trying it awhile ago and I can’t even begin to say how much I hate it. Despite turning off settings to open new tabs, every website I open browsing on mobile opens a new tab, so before I know it I have 27 tabs open, the desktop version is clunky, I had to adjust a ton of settings to stop it from downloading in the background every file I just wanted to view or print, and it won’t even let me print or save as pdf a lot of things, so I have to open Chrome or Brave to do that stuff anyway. I feel like grandma trying to learn to text using it, but for now I’m going to press on because the ad blocking works better than Brave and I like some of the extra features and plugins.

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      1 year ago

      I had to adjust a ton of settings to stop it from downloading in the background every file I just wanted to view or print,

      Well, you can’t view or print a file without downloading it.

    • TheQuickHedgehog@lemmy.sdf.org
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      Despite turning off settings to open new tabs, every website I open browsing on mobile opens a new tab

      That shouldn’t happen, I’ve just set Homepage > Opening screen to last tab and when I open firefox it defaults to the last tab that I was on before exiting the browser

      I had to adjust a ton of settings to stop it from downloading in the background every file I just wanted to view or print

      Iirc its just setting browser.download.open_pdf_attachments_inline to true at about:config

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      1 year ago

      Honestly, after this latest stunt by Google and Brave’s growing list of issues, I recently switched to Firefox myself. It was actually surprisingly less painful than it was switching from Chrome to Brave.

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      1 year ago

      Give Vivaldi a try, it’s a chromium fork but with a strong focus on privacy.

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      1 year ago

      Fair enough, you have an opinion, that firefox is wrong in everything it does, it’s not valid, but you need to learn the defaults. Be well.