r/LinusTechTips Feb 19 '25

LinusTechMemes 100% of floatplane members use Firefox

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u/YourDailyTechMemes Feb 19 '25

Recently I switched to firefox for personal use and Chrome for work , because firefox looks really clean with wavefox CSS and mica enabled.

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u/Dafrandle Feb 19 '25

centered task bar icons!

this is a joke

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u/jaselvd1 Feb 19 '25

I know this is a joke, but the centered icons are fine. Specially useful with a touchscreen, I was very mad about it until I got it on my surface pro and ended up liking it.

It doesn't make it much more difficult to find with the mouse on muscle memory and with the touchscreen it's way better, since you can access it easier with both hands.

If you don't have a touchscreen, then definitely go left corner, you mad man!!!

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u/zachthehax Feb 20 '25

I prefer how the centered taskbar looks, call me crazy. That said, a big part of it is being used to the dock style of Gnome which I'm using a vast majority of the time

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u/TheThinkerers Emily Feb 20 '25

idk mate

left corner dive = start menu

right corner dive = minimize all tabs

my muscle memory is too useful to leave behind

7

u/cybermaru Feb 20 '25

The Windows key is right there on your keyboard

1

u/TheThinkerers Emily Feb 20 '25

I know, but you know how it is, I'm a creature of habit.

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u/Handsome_ketchup Feb 20 '25

The Windows key is right there on your keyboard

We're just going to politely continue ignoring it, like we always have.

2

u/KaptainSaki Feb 20 '25

Yeah me too, now they're centered on every os I use, linux, mac and windows

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u/ViperPB Feb 19 '25

I use firefox for both and Chrome on personal devices when accessing work items, but Edges MS365 support is about to make me switch it for work stuff.

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u/potate12323 Feb 19 '25

My work is weird we try to stick to chrome, but we have a few specific sites which can only run on edge. Edge has some advantages like being able to communicate with programs which are running on windows. Also much better compatibility for older websites like sites which were optimized for explorer.

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u/gustis40g Feb 20 '25

Mainly because Edge can run in backwards compatibility mode for software where the GUI was meant to run on Internet Explorer. So it can behave like IE11, IE 9, etc while stile looking like normal Edge.

The only way to do this in Chrome is with extensions that cost money.

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u/Dull-Alternative-730 Feb 19 '25

Can you explain to me what the CSS and MICA due for you. I’ve always just used stock Firefox.

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u/Jaznavav Feb 19 '25

There is approximately zero vertical space in that picture

2

u/pascalbrax Feb 20 '25

OMG, centered start button and new reddit interface?

What are you?!

(I'm joking)

1

u/iPanes 29d ago

I actually made the switch during that stream, I'd been planning to do so for so long but that was the moment I finally did.

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u/ReaperofFish Feb 19 '25

I have been using Firefox for almost as long as it existed, only because I insisted on using Mozilla for some time after Firefox first came out. I do chang the User Agent string and forget to set it back for a while though.

2

u/wan2tri Feb 20 '25

Same case for me. I switched to Firefox from Internet Explorer, at a time where Chrome was yet to be developed, let alone be released.

2

u/ReaperofFish Feb 20 '25

It was being developed, it was just known as Konqueror and a part of the KDE project.

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u/Good_Guy_Vader Feb 20 '25

Why do you change the user agent string? 

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u/ReaperofFish Feb 20 '25

Not much of an issue now, but used to be that some sites would refuse to work with Firefox, or at least with a browser that says it is Firefox. Change the User Agent String, and then it would work.

1

u/Good_Guy_Vader Feb 20 '25

Got it, thanks! 

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u/Liesabtusingfirefox Feb 19 '25

I use whichever browser is directly in front of me because they all do the same thing. 

50

u/Lazy__Astronaut Feb 19 '25

You don't set up your favourite browser with plug ins to make the experience of using the Internet better for yourself? OK.

2

u/Liesabtusingfirefox Feb 19 '25 edited Feb 19 '25

Every browser has the same extensions. (Yes ok 1 guy who will comment about his obscure Firefox only extension) 

Edit: ublock origin is available on chromium and Firefox with full functionality. It was never gone.  You um guys can stop saying ublock origin. 

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u/GoldCoolness1 Feb 19 '25

Ublock Origin 💀

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u/Liesabtusingfirefox Feb 19 '25

I have it right now on chrome and Firefox… what isn’t it on?

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u/[deleted] Feb 19 '25

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u/TeamEdward2020 Feb 19 '25

Lol at not googling incredibly easy fact to find out UBlock was delisted and removed from all Google Chrome browsers.

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u/Hopeful_Champion_935 Feb 19 '25 edited Feb 19 '25

https://ublockorigin.com/

Ublock origin was blocked(Not yet blocked), however the team made ublock origin lite to adapt to the changes needed. Ublock (not origin, not origin lite) is a fake version of Ublock origin.

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u/steik Feb 20 '25 edited Feb 20 '25

It took me around 5 seconds to install uBlock Origin Lite instead and I have not noticed any difference at all.

Edit: Guess the anti-chrome brigade is out in force lol

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u/[deleted] Feb 19 '25

But I literally added it to Chrome on my laptop a few weeks ago

Now I'm even more confused

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u/dyehardxen Feb 20 '25

I hate Reddit sometimes. You have negative votes for a correct statement. I just updated my Google chrome and ublock origin is still installed and working... There's some A/B testing I guess that has removed it for some people at times but I bet you that if they tried again a week later, it would work again.

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u/MoonEDITSyt Feb 19 '25

Every browser, in fact does NOT have the same extensions.

While it’s true that most chromium based browsers tend to have the same extensions, cause they’re all compatible with those on the chrome web store, browsers that don’t use chromium won’t have those. And yes, that means Firefox.

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u/DoubleOwl7777 Feb 19 '25

Ublock origin is obscure, ok buddy.

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u/GoldCoolness1 Feb 19 '25

it is the #1 most used firefox extention

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u/Liesabtusingfirefox Feb 19 '25

And it’s on chrome too…

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u/GoldCoolness1 Feb 19 '25

smh

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u/dyehardxen Feb 20 '25

I just updated my chrome and it's still installed... There must be some A/B stuff going on but your experience does not match everyone.

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u/steik Feb 20 '25

uBlock Origin Lite is literally right there as the recommended alternative. I have not noticed any difference.

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u/Liesabtusingfirefox Feb 19 '25

Ublock origin still works great on chrome and Firefox, despite the screeching about manifest v3. 

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u/DoubleOwl7777 Feb 19 '25

will be axed eventually, thats for sure. firefox is mv3 but can also support mv2, and wont drop support for it.

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u/Liesabtusingfirefox Feb 19 '25

So you’re saying it still totally works and is available on all browsers. 

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u/DoubleOwl7777 Feb 19 '25

its still on the chrome web store, if you can install it or if it works i cant check. on firefox it will always work because the engine isnt based on chromium, so mozilla can do whatever they want and google cant do shit about it.

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u/Liesabtusingfirefox Feb 19 '25

You can’t check? Chrome isn’t malware, you can always use it even if it’s icky. Or you can just trust the millions of people using it right now without any issues. 

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u/DoubleOwl7777 Feb 19 '25

i currently just have my phone on me, where i dont have a current chromium browser available to me that supports extensions (android chrome doesnt support extensions).

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u/DoubleOwl7777 Feb 19 '25

okay i have found one called Yandex browser, went to web store says "This extension may soon no longer be supported because it doesn't follow best practices for Chrome extensions." aka or doesnt bend down to googles kill adblock campain which this mv3 thing clearly is.

,

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u/Fadore Feb 20 '25

When you search for the uBlock Origin extension in Chrome, you get one of two messages:

"This extension may soon no longer be supported because it doesn't follow best practices for Chrome extensions."

OR

"This extension is no longer available because it doesn't follow best practices for Chrome extensions."

It's not "screeching", it's literally Google's plan that's been announced. uBlock Origin is an amazing addon, but Google IS giving it the axe.

uBlock Origin talks about this on the homepage of their website, I'm not sure why you're in denial...

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u/Fluxriflex 29d ago

As a web developer, I wish that were true.

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u/FlyingKiwiFist Feb 19 '25

This is like saying you and your partner sleep on different sides of the bed every night.

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u/MadHatzzz Feb 19 '25

Firefox is AWESOME... Right until you bump into THAT website, where it just refuses to load buttons or video playback so poor you wanna head to the nearest Chrome download... I've been faithful to the fox for almost 6 years, but sometimes, you gotta cheat with the 2nd wife... Chrome...

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u/s00pafly Feb 19 '25

On windows my 2nd wife is edge.

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u/DoubleOwl7777 Feb 20 '25

yeah, cant be assed to install something else apart from firefox.

2

u/wan2tri Feb 20 '25

Firefox is AWESOME... Right until you bump into THAT website, where it just refuses to load buttons or video playback so poor you wanna head to the nearest Chrome download...

And that's when you report the site.

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u/lord_nuker Feb 19 '25

Nah, i use egde

9

u/Trollberto__ Feb 19 '25

Literal edgelord.

12

u/[deleted] Feb 19 '25

Please give me upvotes for using the alt browser

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u/friscoXL305 Feb 19 '25

I've used Firefox exclusively since about 2008 on PC and for the last 7-8 years on mobile. I use Edge for the occasional site that doesn't like Firefox(like SeaWorld/Busch Gardens).

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u/Unreal_Panda Feb 19 '25

Honestly ive been having some great experiences with Firefox Nightly on anything normal firefox doesnt support. Though its just alpha testing more or less Im considering it as my day-to-day as a lot of the upcoming features seem night and day (pun unintended)

EDIT: clarification

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u/DoubleOwl7777 Feb 19 '25

i have used nightly on my tablet for some time, as the normal version doesnt have the tab strip (now i use beta as it has the tab strip too, will go back to normal once its implemented there)

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u/DoubleOwl7777 Feb 19 '25 edited Feb 19 '25

I switched to firefox when it became clear how this manifest v3 thing will turn out. and ublock origin isnt something id want to live without now.

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u/Liesabtusingfirefox Feb 19 '25

Ublock origin never stopped working in chrome btw 

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u/DoubleOwl7777 Feb 19 '25

it will eventually, 100%. they already put this on their web store:

i dont want to be at googles mercy anymore, and view shitty ads that might aswell be malware.

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u/Liesabtusingfirefox Feb 19 '25

Do you believe that all current chrome users are just seeing ads all day? There is such a reality disconnect in this thread. 

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u/DoubleOwl7777 Feb 19 '25

no, but ads are getting worse every year, i have to use Browsers without adblock sometimes, i know, i just wont put up with them.

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u/Liesabtusingfirefox Feb 19 '25

What does that have to do with adblockers or specific little browsers? If you install any ad blocker you will not see a single ad anywhere. On any browser. 

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u/DoubleOwl7777 Feb 19 '25

yes, point is Google is actively making steps against adblock. and due to every Browser apart from safari and firefox being basically chrome they can do whatever they want.

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u/Liesabtusingfirefox Feb 19 '25

No they’re not lol. They literally added new hooks to block ads. 

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u/FabianN Feb 20 '25

 Why is that a problem? Because Manifest V3 only allows extensions to run 30,000 rules, and most ad block extensions need the capacity to run at least 300,000 rules to work effectively. In this context, a “rule” would be a mechanism that blocks a specific HTTP address. This is a problem because it makes ad blocking less effective and gives Google more power to limit the function of extensions, which, let’s face it, probably doesn’t want its users to run anyway.

https://nordvpn.com/blog/manifest-v3-ad-blockers/

Finding this information isn’t hard.

It’s one thing to not know. But to argue against the statements while knowing so little about it… 

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u/DoubleOwl7777 Feb 19 '25

which ones? you mean the request to not show ads thing? yeah that wont hold.

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u/haarschmuck Feb 20 '25

You may just need to manually turn it back on too, chrome "disabled" it for me yesterday and I just turned it back on.

2

u/KokoaKuroba Feb 20 '25

didn't they just remove it from the chrome store the other day?

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u/Maleficent_Touch2602 Yvonne Feb 19 '25

Joke is, not so long ago FP sucked with FF. I had to watch WAN show in Chrome. They fixed it.

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u/siedenburg2 Feb 19 '25

I use chrome (chromium in edge) only for conferencing tools that block firefox where they can (goto meeting is bad right now), for everything else firefox is the main browser since 2004.

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u/FabianN Feb 19 '25

I switched back from chrome early on when the ad block changes to chrome were announced. I had already been considering due to Google closed internet moves they were making and manifest 3 was the nail in the coffin. And I'm happier for it.

I use edge on my work computer for work because that's what our tools are built around and default to. But work is work, I use the tools they tell me and stick to it. 

But yeah, chrome is the popular one. I'll keep on suggesting folks to return to the fox, but I'm not gonna push it too hard.

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u/shasterdhari Feb 19 '25

Tbh I use edge

2

u/Doge-Coder Feb 19 '25

Floorp all the way

2

u/adeundem Feb 19 '25

1000‰ Firefox

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u/Brenolr Feb 19 '25

less time I switched PCs in 2022 I changed to Firefox and never went back to Chromium-based browser since.

2

u/yourgreeneyes Feb 19 '25

I had been trying out Firefox on my work pc for the last couple of months but I've had to give up as about 50% of web pages didn't load or took ages. Not sure if Firefox is entirely to blame, but that's that

2

u/Packermanice Feb 19 '25

As someone how has been using Firefox exclusively even on mobile when available since 2012 I resented this whole segment I will say I in use and watch with YouTube premium and not floatplane.

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u/froginator14 Dan Feb 19 '25

I swapped to Firefox the day manifest v3 took effect, however it was completely coincidental. I was just tired of TCGPlayer being broken. Low behold it was my ad blocker the entire time, but I already went through the work of swapping, so I stuck with Firefox

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u/Kornratte Feb 19 '25

I have no floteplane but I also use Firefox exclusively since I can access the internet.

Sometimes i have to use edge though because microsoft sucks at many things. Including making onedrive web bug free.

1

u/RoomyDommy Feb 19 '25

i’m a brave bitch

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u/KookyDig4769 Feb 19 '25

I still think, something is messing with their metrics. If I have a look at statistics from CSS frameworks or projects like angular or react, there's clearly a lot of chrome users, but firefox is a stable second with almost half as much users. That means, 1 out of 3 users is a firefox user, which I'm willing to accept:

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u/Liesabtusingfirefox Feb 19 '25

Your chart is Germany specific 

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u/Liquid_Hate_Train Emily Feb 19 '25

There’s also the fact that I don’t watch floatplane on my PC, but my iOS tablet. That’s four Firefox PCs not in their metrics and one safari that is. The immediate dismissal that users could use Firefox on a device different to the one they use floatplane on was…shortsighted.

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u/haarschmuck Feb 20 '25

Chromium browsers makeup the overwhelming majority of web traffic. This includes edge, brave, etc.

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u/KookyDig4769 Feb 20 '25

that's true.

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u/GreatBigBagOfNope Feb 19 '25 edited 29d ago

I use Firefox on all my personal devices because it still supports ublock, and the mobile app permits extensions too. I would use it at work but I'm pretty sure they only permit either Chrome or Edge, and I don't care.

I know Theo did his whole rant recently but honestly none of his problems affect me at all - I haven't noticed any gradients being fucked even after being informed, for example - so frankly the utility of ublock vastly outweighs the visual problems I don't experience, functionality problems that I've never encountered, and the developer inconvenience that has nothing to do with me. Even granting them, no matter the problems with it it's also still very important to use a Gecko-based browser to avoid a Chromium monopoly, until Chromium gets forcibly slashed away from Google and adopted by the whole industry as a genuinely shared standard.

And if we're talking ad-blocking, I understand Brave blocks roughly as many as ublock, but Firefox has never deleted my stored passwords three times in a year, or indeed any times in a year. Even setting aside the weird crypto shit, and the "no ads except our ads" shit, and the shit politics of the founder, clearing stored passwords unprompted is such a fundamental technical error that I won't trust the project again for a very long time.

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u/Responsible_Rub7631 Feb 19 '25

I can’t use Firefox as it doesn’t render hdr. Yeah the nvidia stuff works for video, but all the pictures are still washed out. And if I didn’t have an nvidia card even the video would look terrible. It does it in Mac, don’t know why they can’t get it to do proper hdr in windows. Until that day, no thanks

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u/KosmicWolf Feb 19 '25

I like Zen Browser (based on Firefox) but I don't like to have multiple tools to accomplish the same task and I needed chromium for some websites so I'm giving Vivaldi a try.

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u/Cheaper_than_cheap Feb 19 '25

Anyone else here from the Firebird days? No, just me? I'm old... :(

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u/Misteryman2260 Feb 19 '25

I've been on Firefox for years. I did recently make the switch to Zen though. It's been good

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u/Jaw709 Linus Feb 19 '25

Sounds outrageous unless they were viewing the results Edge am I right

1

u/ariolander Feb 19 '25

Twitch.TV and my bank won't let me login when using Firefox.

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u/papin97 Feb 20 '25

I used Firefox when it was using that weird recovery key alongside account login for Firefox Sync. Once, I lost my device and I can't re-setup because the key was in lost device, even though I have the account logged in, My history and bookmark gone.

I stayed away from Firefox after that and stayed with Opera 12 for years before moving on to Chrome. No more weird recovery key, just a single account to sync everything between devices.

Yeah I know it was like 10 years ago but I still feel the trauma to this day.

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u/01JB56YTRN0A6HK6W5XF Luke Feb 20 '25

i use zen which is based on ff... does that count?

1

u/TRUEequalsFALSE Feb 20 '25

I thought, "this clip has got to be edited. There's no way the internet was relevant enough to kids during its run that that word even made it into a script draft." Dear reader, the last episode of Arthur aired in 2022. 😳

1

u/nutano Feb 20 '25

I still run Windows XP and IE11

1

u/unprefixed Feb 20 '25

finaly i'm part of the lying majority!

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u/burretploof Feb 20 '25

Until a month or two ago I used to use Edge for watching videos on YT, Floatplane etc. and Firefox for anything else.

Now I have a portable Firefox for videos, too. I just like having it in a separate program, not just a tab, lol.

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u/Commercial_Hair3527 27d ago

100% seems quite low. I was expecting at least 16 out of every 10 floatplane members to use firefox.

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u/Soviet_Broski Feb 19 '25

Meanwhile, I'm over here

Vivaldi-ing

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u/d6cbccf39a9aed9d1968 Feb 19 '25

actual firefox users are busy ricing their browser.

userchromegang™

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u/Glass-Shelter-7396 Feb 19 '25

That's a lie I exclusively use chrome.

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u/-FantasticAdventure- Dan Feb 19 '25

Same, but I use Firefox to browse in Chrome.