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urda ◴[] No.44545284[source]
You bypass it by installing Firefox.
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qustrolabe ◴[] No.44545510[source]
Firefox is awful. Both as a browser itself and as a base for other browsers. Such a shame that Zen didn't use Chromium :(
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dangraper2 ◴[] No.44545955[source]
Weird, Firefox blows Chrome out of the water. What do you smoke?
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lucb1e ◴[] No.44546413[source]
The smoke on the water!

More seriously, I'm a Firefox user since ~2006 but I'm about equally surprised by the statement that Firefox should blow Chrome/ium out of the water as that Firefox supposedly sucks. They're both browsers. I think Chromium is a bit faster in page rendering, whereas Firefox is more open, privacy-friendly, and customizable. Similar to how I wish consumers would not choose an anti-consumer organization (anyone who values a free market and general computation1 should not choose iOS), I think nobody should choose Chrome but, still, I can understand if someone does choose it because they've gotten used to how it works and they're not willing to change. It's about equal in practical functionality that 95% of people use, wouldn't you say? Or in what way is Firefox blowing Chrome out of the water?

¹ https://www.thekurzweillibrary.com/the-coming-war-on-general...

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eviks ◴[] No.44547586[source]
> Firefox is more open, privacy-friendly, and customizable.

How do you customize the default keyboard shortcuts?

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opengears ◴[] No.44548140{3}[source]
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/vimium-ff/
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1. eviks ◴[] No.44548155{4}[source]
This can't change the browser defaults, it only works in some, not all, contexts, so you can't have a consistent experience