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Questions like “Which browser should I use?” regularly come up on the r/browsers subreddit. I sometimes respond to these posts, but my quick replies usually only contain one or two points. To be honest, until recently I wasn’t even sure myself why I use Firefox. Of course it’s a pretty good browser, but that doesn’t explain why I’ve stubbornly stayed loyal to Firefox for more than a decade. After giving it a bit more thought, I came up with the following reasons.
So I started using Firefox in my early teens around 2010, I didn’t know/care about online privacy etc and had no idea what open source was, I just picked it because I liked the look and theming options more than Chrome at the time.
I then kept using it because it’s what I knew and I can be stubborn to change sometimes. Around 2016 was when I started looking more into online privacy and FOSS stuff it kinda just reinforced my existing use of Firefox.
Recent actions by Google with their anti-adblocking campaign and Manifestv3 have just made me dig in my heels more.
Any yet Mozilla is still struggling as a company.
I’m aware there are some more private options, but I feel like ff is enough and is important to keep user numbers up, because once Firefox goes the forks go too.
What wpuld those be if you don’t mind me asking?
Waterfox and Librewold are both popular examples.