Using firefox but concerned now

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Edit 2/28: It seems there is no general consensus if we should switch and/or to what.

  • foremanguy@lemmy.ml
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    10 days ago

    Understand your point of view but in fact the 2 problems you mentioned are mainly not problems :

    1 - Updates? The main downstream browsers received updates the same time as Firefox the same day and sometime the same hour

    2 - Benefits? The benefits are mainly under the hood, removing Mozilla telemetry and annoying features (account, pocket…) AND the biggest advantages are the gain in term of privacy due the increase of anti fingerprinting methods

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      10 days ago

      Updates? The main downstream browsers received updates the same time as Firefox the same day and sometime the same hour

      I’m not sure if something has changed, but due to changes they’ve made, at least before they couldn’t ship out the updates until they made it so that the updates actually affect their changed codebase. Which understandably causes delays. So there’d always be this delay with something being fixed on Firefox and then being fixed on the downstream projects.

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        10 days ago

        Surely there will be some delay but not that much, for most updates the fixes are transplanted directly to the downstream project making the patches coming very fast, almost as fast as the original project

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          10 days ago

          I’ve just soured on them from when there has been issues. Some security patches took a while because of the changed codebase. Good if that doesn’t happen anymore though.

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              10 days ago

              I’m confused. I’ve already made my decision when I used them before and it doesn’t seem like the main thing (them being just downstream of Firefox) has changed? Like said, I don’t see the benefits being big enough to warrant a switch.