God I wish chrome didn’t remove manifest v2 meow-tableflip

Here is the list of things that piss me off about firefox:

  • It is dogshit slow
  • It eats up a ludicrous amounts of RAM, which I wasn’t expecting since it’s one of the main things people make fun of chrome for
  • It crashes constantly
  • It tries to push it’s “AI” bullshit on me despite me turning it off on multiple occasions
  • It puts ads on my home page
  • It needs to be relaunched regularly because at some point it becomes too laggy to use. It even stops loading pages altogether
  • “Restore previous session” feature doesn’t work half the time so restarting the browser is absolutely terrifying
  • Profile management is a mess

Are there any alternatives? Is Brave any good?

  • kleeon [he/him, he/him]@hexbear.netOP
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    13 days ago

    I’m talking about this thing that keep popping up with seemingly every update:

    There was also some “AI summary” thing that popped up once but I turned it off and won’t come back now thankfully

    • buckykat [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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      13 days ago

      The AI shit is new. To disable it all, type about:config in the address bar and turn all these to false:

      browser.ml.enable

      browser.ml.chat.enabled

      browser.ml.chat.menu

      browser.ml.chat.shortcuts

      browser.ml.chat.shortcuts.custom

      extensions.ml.enabled

      browser.tabs.groups.smart.enabled

      browser.tabs.groups.smart.userEnabled

      • Damarcusart [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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        13 days ago

        Maybe? I ended up getting it and disabling it straight away, had I been in a less lazy mood I probably would’ve switched browsers entirely, though all of the big ones have their own AI bullshit now as well.

    • P1d40n3 [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      13 days ago

      This is literally the first time I’ve seen that. Like holy shit, that would push me to uninstall…but then, I am using Firefox accounts to sync, tabs and passwords and whatnots…

      Bleak shit, sorry you have to deal with that!