• Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world
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      4 months ago

      It’s not like they contracted some sort of terminal illness. Anyone can migrate whenever. It’s not hard.

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        I believe that some organizations restrict what applications can be installed on work computers, so that might not necessarily be true, at least for work machines.

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          One more vector of malware for these corporate systems. Sucks for them I suppose.

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        My organization has blocked all browsers other than Edge and Chrome - and has also blocked all plugins except for UBlock. For security reasons, of course.

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          Everyone knows seeing a bunch of uncontrolled JavaScript-powered ads from who knows what server is good for security.

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      And I mean, there’s still time now. Switching browsers isn’t that bad. Export+import some bookmarks and adjust some settings, good to go.

      I think FF has been a good option for a while. But the second best time is now. I can totally get it if people didn’t want to switch until they had more of a concrete problem.

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        FF still hasn’t brought back a tab group API for extensions or native tab groups. Extensions can only do so much given what they have to work with. I still use FF on the side, but it simply isn’t a practical as a primary browser for me currently.

        But for casual users, many probably have never even touched their browser settings.

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          Tab groups are coming but in the mean time containers work well enough for me with the added benefit that they’ll also block tracking from the sites that are within them.

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          Understandable, I’m really looking forward to FF getting tab groups too. I don’t know why such a nice feature was left unimplemented for so long. 🫤

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        I don’t think safari is even remotely comparable given that it’s a default browser on macs.

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          Also, I’m pretty sure it’s not possible to install any other browser on iPhones unless you get root.

          Edit: It looks like you can with iOS 15.0

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            Those are all just skins on safari. Until like 6 months ago you couldn’t install any web browser with a renderer other than safari. And that’s only in the EU.

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            As I understand it, any browser on iPhone has to be built on WebKit, so even if you install fire fox or chrome, it’s running on a totally different web engine than the desktop version. Making them more safari re-skins in the same way that stuff like brave or opera are just chrome reskins.

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            I’ve had iPhone for years and I can’t remember the last time I didn’t use chrome with it

            Never rooted my phones either. It’s definitely not blocked

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          How so ? The default browser on Windows is Edge, people keep installing Chrome? Chrome is available on MacOS, yet people stick with Safari?

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            some people stick with safari, but no one is replacing chrome, fire fox, or edge with safari. People choose to replace edge because it is obtrusive and annoying to use, safari isn’t.

            In that context, safari is not a competitor for Firefox in the same way chrome is. It’s comparing apples to oranges.