Ask HN: Anyone Use Firefox in 2023?

I use it in both desktop and mobile. Works pretty much the same as the other browsers, and it has much better extensions.

On iOS, in the simplified version branded as Qwant browser (Qwant is a French privacy-respecting search engine).

Yes. Works fine on all but one site, which only works on chrome. (Running on Linux and Android.)

Also firefox seems slightly faster to start & to execute than chrome, though I'd be happy to drop lots of the JS garbage to make proper fast. And does it really need to always cache 1GB of old web stuff?

Yes, on macOS.

Sure, it's excellent. Nothing else is as simple to set-and-forget in my experience.

Only techies use it, when the rest of the world is using Chrome and it's derivatives.

Firefox usage has declined year over year [0] and has lost millions of users [1] with a downward trend overall.

[0] https://gs.statcounter.com/

[1] https://data.firefox.com/dashboard/user-activity

Yes. Also on MacOS.

I am a fan of container tabs which allow me to use a website with multiple identities such as the AWS console and to constrain the tentacles of Facebook.

Yes :)

Yes, rocking FireFox on 3 Macs and an Android.

I can't imagine using the web without its amazing add-ons, enhanced tracking protection mode, and the multi-account containers...

Always using Firefox on desktop. Never used Chrome. Developer since 2006.

Yes. But just to use the Firefox Relay XD

Yep, and I show my bookmark bar too with no trouble. Not sure what the issue was for you there.

Not that Firefox isn't without it's issues, but I'd much rather deal with those few and far between ones than use Chrome and surrender more of my privacy to Google.

Both on Desktop & Mobile.

Of course. Both desktop and mobile version as well with uBlock Origin. Don't have any issues so far except Google Meet not being able to blur the background on the video calls, but I can live with that.

Yes, I use it for my personal browsing. For company related stuff i uses Chrome

I'm using Firefox on MacOS and on Android. On Android it's a little bit slow to open it up, but I can live with that.

I like it, and I don't want to go back to Chrome.

Occasionally but only for websites which refuse to render correctly without javascript. The rest of the time it is Pale Moon. I hope mozilla dies.

FF is my primary browser.

I do. It has a very effective ad blocker (uBlock) that also works on my phone. Firefox Sync syncs my passwords and browsing history (and my tabs when it feels like it).

You can't show your bookmarks bar?

It's ⌘-B on macOS to toggle on/off

I presume it's ctrl-B on Windows (but can't verify at the moment)

Or you can go to View->Toolbars->Bookmarks Toolbar and change you preferences there

Yes for several reasons:

out of habit,

spreading my browsing over several browsers (because I think competition is good),

cross-browser checking work on my work since I know there are users using it (both design and javascript has occasionally looked/worked differently from other popular browsers).

and lastly I like the non-business model feel of Mozilla

Yes, have used it every day for three and a half years (on Windows, MacOS, and Linux). Not any real huge benefits over using Chrome, but I was the only guy who would spot FF bugs on our site during review.

I have to use Chrome for Google Meet on my new work machine though. There's just a ton of problems. Not sure if that's 100% FireFox's fault though.

> I can't even show my bookmark bar.

I just right clicked on the empty space to either side of the address bar and there was an option to always show it.

Love using it on MacOS and have been using it since 2010. It does everything that Chrome does and additionally has container tabs (you can sign-into like unlimited GMail accounts at the same time).

Firefox for Android is like the dream web browser. AFAIK it is the only mobile browser with Add-Ons support. I hate the Youtube app, it is too addictive for me. I would like to occassionally watch videos on the browser though. Using an add-on, I can keep the Youtube video playing in the background, always play 4k videos, etc. Firefox Android also has uBlock and works perfectly.

Firefox for iPhone sucks but most of it is due to Apple (the walled garden) and not FF https://mzl.la/2duGEDd

Yes, as my main browser - like the compartments...but mainly it's habit, as I've been on board since the netscape navigator days.

Although, my telecoms provider fails me - for that I use 'Min' (chrome based)