β² 402 βΌ Google is ruining the entire web (feddit.de) submitted 3 years ago by nils@feddit.de to c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world 97 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[+] shadowSprite@lemmy.world -17 points 3 years ago (5 children) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 10 child comments replies: [β] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 10 points 3 years ago I had to adjust a ton of settings to stop it from downloading in the background every file I just wanted to view or print, Well, you can't view or print a file without downloading it. permalink fedilink source parent [β] Qualanqui@lemmy.nz 4 points 3 years ago Give Vivaldi a try, it's a chromium fork but with a strong focus on privacy. permalink fedilink source parent [β] Gestrid@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 years ago Honestly, after this latest stunt by Google and Brave's growing list of issues, I recently switched to Firefox myself. It was actually surprisingly less painful than it was switching from Chrome to Brave. permalink fedilink source parent [β] TheQuickHedgehog@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 3 years ago* Despite turning off settings to open new tabs, every website I open browsing on mobile opens a new tab That shouldn't happen, I've just set Homepage > Opening screen to last tab and when I open firefox it defaults to the last tab that I was on before exiting the browser I had to adjust a ton of settings to stop it from downloading in the background every file I just wanted to view or print Iirc its just setting browser.download.open_pdf_attachments_inline to true at about:config permalink fedilink source parent [β] MalReynolds@slrpnk.net -2 points 3 years ago (1 child) Fair enough, you have an opinion, that firefox is wrong in everything it does, it's not valid, but you need to learn the defaults. Be well. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [β] areyouevenreal@lemmy.antemeridiem.xyz 1 point 2 years ago Fair enough, you have an opinion, that firefox is wrong in everything it does That's not what they are saying though. A lot of this is configurable for a reason. but you need to learn the defaults I don't think that they do. They have see. They don't like the defaults and it's their right to change them. That's the whole point of configurable FOSS ffs. permalink fedilink source parent
[β] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 10 points 3 years ago I had to adjust a ton of settings to stop it from downloading in the background every file I just wanted to view or print, Well, you can't view or print a file without downloading it. permalink fedilink source parent
[β] Qualanqui@lemmy.nz 4 points 3 years ago Give Vivaldi a try, it's a chromium fork but with a strong focus on privacy. permalink fedilink source parent
[β] Gestrid@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 years ago Honestly, after this latest stunt by Google and Brave's growing list of issues, I recently switched to Firefox myself. It was actually surprisingly less painful than it was switching from Chrome to Brave. permalink fedilink source parent
[β] TheQuickHedgehog@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 3 years ago* Despite turning off settings to open new tabs, every website I open browsing on mobile opens a new tab That shouldn't happen, I've just set Homepage > Opening screen to last tab and when I open firefox it defaults to the last tab that I was on before exiting the browser I had to adjust a ton of settings to stop it from downloading in the background every file I just wanted to view or print Iirc its just setting browser.download.open_pdf_attachments_inline to true at about:config permalink fedilink source parent
[β] MalReynolds@slrpnk.net -2 points 3 years ago (1 child) Fair enough, you have an opinion, that firefox is wrong in everything it does, it's not valid, but you need to learn the defaults. Be well. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [β] areyouevenreal@lemmy.antemeridiem.xyz 1 point 2 years ago Fair enough, you have an opinion, that firefox is wrong in everything it does That's not what they are saying though. A lot of this is configurable for a reason. but you need to learn the defaults I don't think that they do. They have see. They don't like the defaults and it's their right to change them. That's the whole point of configurable FOSS ffs. permalink fedilink source parent
[β] areyouevenreal@lemmy.antemeridiem.xyz 1 point 2 years ago Fair enough, you have an opinion, that firefox is wrong in everything it does That's not what they are saying though. A lot of this is configurable for a reason. but you need to learn the defaults I don't think that they do. They have see. They don't like the defaults and it's their right to change them. That's the whole point of configurable FOSS ffs. permalink fedilink source parent
