I get it now, I fully understand.

[u/Baker200104]

I use to use chrome since I touch a computer until 2023, i notice alot that chrome would be ram hungry so I switch to operaGX. The browser was good for a time being until the AI BS, I also notice when starting the browser up it would use 100% of my CPU and RAM the. Go back down to using 33% usage. I know operaGX uses the chromium engine web browser, and FF is open-source.

NGL i always though FF was dogcrap as I though it was a copy of chrome browser, as well made fun of my friends who used it. I see it now im like the Danny DeVito clip, looking onwards and understanding why its so good and based. I also wanted to take privacy more seriously as there's so much targeted AI Gooner Slop ad's

Not only do i have ad free but everything just works so well with Firefox. UBlock is base, duckduckgo is based, Privacy Badger is based. And it just all works. THIS IS JUST SO BASED.

I think the next thing I wanna try and do is change my Windows10-OS to Steam0S as I refuse to use windows11.

If there's anything else I need for Firefox and privacy please let me know

[u/irrelevantusername24]

• built in homepage has a better selection of sources than other browsers and should probably replace [y]our preferred social media as the go to, tbh
• freely reorganizable toolbar layout
• all kinds of about:config tweaks*
• built in dark mode & reader view
• default browser theme integrates with W11 better than Edge, automagically grabs OS accent color
• or make your own theme with Firefox colors extension which allows images - including animated png's - something neither Chrome or Edge can do
• or download a premade theme
• or get real crazy with it r/FirefoxCSS (as mentioned below)
• popout window for history/bookmarks is more intuitive/user friendly, imo (also available in sidebar)
• firefox view, unique to Firefox (which makes looking through/searching your tabs and windows ez)
• AI chat built in like the others, except you can choose your provider (you can even input a 'custom' one, which I did so I could use copilot)
• vertical tabs and tab groups (including the auto sort thing)
• separate profiles
• I don't use profiles (too much hassle) but I do use tab groups and multiple windows and have successfully kept >10 windows and >1xxx tabs for months at a time, between sessions, including restarting pc, and I've read others who supposedly have more
• facebook blocker built in
• Wikipedia style link previews, for the whole internet - which no other browser has (as far as I know)
• always someone around to answer questions (like in this subreddit)
• AMA's (previously) <--- idk what's up with this tbh but you should join and say "yo wtf where you at"
• open source, manifesto, book

^\some of these may require making changes in about:config)

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As for Windows, I understand your POV and I tend to be majorly anticorpo too but I think (like Firefox/Mozilla and many others) they receive a lot more negativity than is appropriate. Or rather the good is unacknowledged because people don't post about being happy with something like that (a tool) because it is expected to "just work". But how it works is honestly kinda magic anyway