aeva
ars technica: we don't know how they did it but google chrome now extracts a pint of blood every time you log on chrome user, dizzy from blood loss: I swear to god I am like this close to switching to firefox another chrome user, on the verge of fainting from severe blood loss: no need to resort to that, just switch to [insert today's trendy chrome fork here] and be smart like meeee 163 comments
a spooky jazz dad..
Considering that the tech industry would collapse without furries it's probably a good choice.   
Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:
@aeva funnily enough, I remember a poll on Mastodon (pre Musk migration) where Firefox turned out to be the majority browser, which surprised me a lot. May be it's time to run a new one.
aeva
@isagalaev normally I'd question the wisdom of putting too much trust in a social media poll but I haven't had a single enraged person in my mentions frothing about how firefox killed jfk or something so I think you might be on to something with this "[this corner of] mastodon is mostly cool people" theory of yours
Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:
@aeva I wouldn't go as far as characterizing people based just on that, but it's an interesting data point nonetheless.
aeva
@isagalaev 80 boosts in 2 hours? I'd have like three people blocked by now minimum if this was Shitter 
Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:
@oblomov @aeva it's the last post on my profile. https://mastodon.social/@isagalaev/111027776713051174 
Arne Brasseur
@aeva @isagalaev I did a poll like that just yesterday! Small sample size but Firefox is a pretty clear winner. At least we can conclude I have cool followers https://toot.cat/@plexus/111022457368581326
Kegthoth-Rha
@aeva @isagalaev I think I remember that pole, and got kind of annpyed that FF and Chrome were the only options.
Ik why, its because everyone who used Brave/Edge/whatever would hit "Other" even though they're Chrome, but still.  
🏔️ owl 🌲
@astra @aeva yeah, I use qutebrowser, for disability reasons. I would love it if it used the firefox engine instead, but that doesn't seem possible.   
aeva
@Rose_On_Mars yes. it was pitched on the blog of one of the project's senior developers, to a small and insignificant fanfare of public outcry and minor criticism including the world health organization making a public statement to the effect of "don't do that people need blood to live", to which google responded with a long and evasive screed about how this is bullying, this isn't the right way to criticize the company, and github is only for agreeing with them and free crowd sourced labor  
KeyJ
@aeva I fully get and support your statement, and if a decent(!) Firefox-based browser emerges, I'll be happy to switch. Until then, I'll have to make do with a (comparatively heavily modified) Chromium fork. In fact, that's maybe one of the reasons why Firefox is such a distant second to the Chromium family: It seems to be harder to fork and extend, for whatever technical or legal reasons. I can imagine that some of the Chromium forks out there would rather be Firefox forks if they could.
Simon Eilting
KeyJ
@eseilt @aeva I'm not talking about the majority of users who just use Chrome/Edge/Safari because it's kinda pushed onto them and they don't care. My feeling (and it's really just that!) is that if it was as simple to derive a custom browser off Firefox as it obviously is for Chromium, some (if not most) of the Chromium derivatives would be Firefox derivatives instead.
Preston Is Not My Real Name
Wouldn't that entail all of the downsides of using Gecko (tiny market share, poor support from websites) without the relatively good brand recognition of Mozilla? There's lot of FF derivatives out there - LibreWolf, IceCat, PaleMoon - but they're mostly kinda...worse? I think the Chromium clones are doing it because it's well-supported by websites, idk if it's actually easier.  
Jimmy Hoke :tardis:
@aeva Sure I had to sacrifice my firstborn to install it, but I really don't feel like switching.
Adventurer
Rip the bandage off. It is a very fast adjustment. Faster than switching from the birdsite to the Mastodon site.
Luna :verified_trans: :cat_is_blob_and_lesbian:
@DaCool@layer8.space @aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place gnome web is also an option for pwa, if you're on Linux (although performance currently isn't great on heavier websites)
Simon Eilting
@aeva I see my dad roughly twice a year. Every time I uninstall Chrome and make FF the default browser. Every time I come back, Chrome is back on there and set as the default. He doesn't know how it happens and he's not doing it on purpose and he doesn't want it (but doesn't realise it until I point it out). It's just a thing that is forced upon the tech-illiterate. 
Mrs Beanbag
Paul-Jan
@mrsbeanbag @aeva @eseilt addendum: also older people that are quite a bit younger than me.
AndrewFelix 🐀 🇵🇸
@aeva as soon as Firefox has an web app sidebar I’m switching over from Edge *faints*
Alex Keane
@aeva I use Firefox for everything but signing into my work intranet where stuff like my time clock exists because there is some weird error (no clue what non standards compliant code on the site throws a freaking clock error under firefox) 
Internet Hedgehog
@aeva third chrome user: "Firefox asked me to donate blood once so it's basically as bad as Chrome"
crimson2877
@aeva i used to primarily use safari until like 3 months ago what does that say about me (got suckered into trying arc, which is chrome, which sucks, but arc is fine and i'm lazy enough to not switch back) 
Wilhelm
@aeva what's up with people saying Firefox is as bad as Chrome for privacy? Ever heard the phrase "perfect is the enemy of good"? Oh no, Firefox is sending anonymous usage statistics that you can turn off which are governed by a legal document that describes how they can and cannot use it. Whelp, guess there's no such thing as a privacy focused browser, might as well use Google Chrome.
Pantrygheist
@aeva the next hot chromium fork will sequence DNA from your blood samples to make a you a nifty NFT.
Martin Guay 👨💻🌈🎮📱🍁
@aeva Firefox is my primary browser like many. I do flip-flop between Chrome, Edge, Brave, etc. But mainly Firefox has been the go-to for years. 
Onno Bos :cybersec: :verified:
@aeva i switched back to chrome with this extension: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/uaswitcher/
moved from udongein
@aeva
> we don't know how they did it but google chrome now extracts a pint of blood every time you log on Ultrakill: The Origins |
Gregory's Server
90% of you are in this picture and I don't like it