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10 Reasons You Should Switch From Chrome to Firefox. (www.howtogeek.com)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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10 Reasons You Should Switch From Chrome to Firefox.::The best browser sync out there.

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[–] [email protected] 139 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Posting this on Lemmy is preaching to the choir.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 8 months ago (1 children)

have any instance admins ever shared the browser stats?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Well, me :) right here : https://analytics.kawa.zip/reddeet.com

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

14% ain't bad i suppose. and some FF users may be masking, and your sample size of 12 may not be very representative

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

If it is 12%, that's still much higher than the internet as a whole which is only 2-3%

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

need a bigger sample size really. 14% of reddeet.coms 12 active users is 1 person

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

Yeah it's a very small instance, I'm the only one really using it right now ^^'

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Hi. I'm on lemmy. I haven't switched. Why? Because there an insane amount of incorporation into Google. Email, my phone communicating to pc, passwords, auto fill, saved cookies, credit cards.

I want to switch. I want to get off chrome from what I've been reading regarding it's practices. But I'm so engraved and the undertaking of switching is not something I've committed to yet. Or might never. I already have a Google Home in my kitchen. I feel like privacy isn't something I have a privilege of anymore.

They've got me.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 8 months ago (1 children)

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/switching-chrome-firefox

Firefox makes it easy to import all that stuff

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Huh. Wow. And it has mobile to pc incorporation?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 8 months ago

If you mean it syncs to mobile, yes

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

Honestly for me it has much better synching. It took a little work to move everything over, but far less than I anticipated.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

My Firefox experience is seamless between my work station, laptop and Android phone. Syncing happens immediately when I open my session on either of them. I don't use the Google ecosystem much though (I mean Google pay, etc) so transitioning may be harder than I imagine from where I sit

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Man I don't really use anything Google except my Gmail when logging into misc accounts

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

You store your passwords on Chome?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Yes 😢

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Oh man! Download KeePassXC, put your passwords on there, install the browser extension to use it in your browsers. You can back it up any way you want, including using Google Drive because the file is encrypted.