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.I am considering ditching Firefox. Not Firefox’s fault, but more and more websites don’t work with it. I can understand Google Photos not liking a non-chromium browser, but lots of others don’t work either. Bummer. Anybody have any suggestions or comments?
Which chromium browser would you recommend? I’d rather stay away from Chrome because it’s bloated (I hear) and Google listens in too much.
Try with addon disabled to see if one might be a problem.
I’ve been getting sick of the long startup times for Firefox. Up to 30 seconds before a screen appears. I notice that when I disable my Internet connection, the startup time is 4 – 6 times faster. So it appears there is a lot of hidden communication if FF detects an Internet connection. Problem is … a browser is useless without an Internet connection.
I use the Vivaldi browser, based on Chromium but a lot more privacy, with the Duck Duck Go search add-on. I haven’t seen a problem site yet, including banks, shopping sites and supermarkets. Even secure government sites are OK with 2FA turned on. And it loads 5 times faster than FF. I like its features and customization ability.
Another benefit of Vivaldi is they give you throwaway email addresses (@vivaldi.net) which I use for shopping sites that “must” have an email address.
I would like to know that too. In Linux, I would try starting Firefox from the command line so that I could get the diagnostic messages in the terminal window… would this be of any use in Windows? Or maybe something listed in event viewer?
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Maybe 7 years ago because I was having so many problems with Firefox I stopped using it as a primary browser. Its add-ons stopped working reliably. I eventually settled on the Brave browser. Every browser has tradeoffs. And I have a whole slew of software things I do to tune a computer’s internet connection so it’s secure, which include O&O Shutup, a VPN, a stand-alone firewall appliance between a computer and its ISP. And every company changes over time (Symantec and Norton come to mind), so I recently dropped Duck Duck Go in favor of Presearch.
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I use ff on two windows pc’s and it works perfectly for all sites other than the bogus one that’s not loading for anyone. Maybe OP should try a new profile. I use privacy badger and a few addons and everything loads perfectly. Mozilla foundation might be terrible but the browser itself is still the best. Brave is my second choice.
@bmeacham (and others)-
I’m running FF99.0.1 with no privacy-enhancing add-ons or extensions installed, and with its privacy settings set to Custom for the Enhanced Privacy Protection, and without touching a thing, Nextdoor.com loads only a blank page. BUT, when I change the Block list level from 2 (Block ALL detected trackers) to level 1 (Allow some trackers so websites don’t “break” as often) Nextdoor.com then loads just as it should.
Both Google Photos and Google Messages loaded their initial pages just fine, and the only thing that FF’s tracking protection blocked was a third party cookie from YouTube. This behavior is with the Block list set to level 2 (block all detected trackers).
This experience leads me to believe that you need to relax your privacy settings a bit for these sites you want to visit, rather than dump FF altogether.
The reason for changes such as you’ve described is fairly simple: Web sites often add tracking capabilities to help them either increase revenue or to help them understand how folks use their site by knowing where folks come to their site from or where they go once folks leave their site, as well as what pages folks visit while still on their site. This involves the use of various tracking services that can be on a list of places to block for privacy reasons that privacy-enhancing routines use to one extent or another.
Oh, and I just found an ad on FF’s New Tab page. Grrrrr…
Understandable but, again, this goes to tweaking your settings within Firefox. Go to the Settings area and select the “Home” option on the left side of the screen. Now, under “New Windows and Tabs”, you can select wither the FF new tab page or a blank page to appear every time you open a new tab. Under these settings, there are a few boxes you can check or uncheck for the content you want to see on FF’s new tab page. I’ve got all of these boxes clear/blank/unchecked and I’ve never seen any kind of ad when I open a new tab. The only ting I’ve ever seen in a newly opened tab is right after I’ve updated FF, my normal home page (about:blank) is in one tab and another tab automatically opens that says “Congratulations, you’re using the latest edition of Firefox”, or something similar, which I close immediately.
For those who’ve mentioned or complained in this forum about having FF be really slow in starting up, PLEASE do so over in the forum started by @Matador that is mentioned rather nicely above in post 2442433, which will help avoid cross-posting/duplicate posts.
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