https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/discussions/just-some-suggestions-and-this-is-gonna-sound-kinda-negative-but/m-p/51973#M18470 <P>OK, I'm this close to removing firefox from my comp.</P><P>The reason is, I pretty much only use yandex for my searches since they are the least censored politically (I hate politics but I'm not gonna listen to mainstream "news").</P><P>Firefox constantly required me to prove I wasn't a bot on yandex, I don't know which side is responsible but I got real sick of it... then I finally installed the yandex browser and it is lightning fast and nowhere near as bloated... only thing is there are not many Yandex add-ons right now, but I'm sure they will get there.</P><P>Concurrently firefox slowed to a crawl compared to the old days, and very few add-ons were working, part of the problem was I do not update it, but when I broke down and updated today it STILL GIVES 2 VERSIONS OF FIREFOX ON MY COMP - LAME - and it was a real pain finding my profiles stuff and copying over...this is one reason why I NEVER update stuff on a stable comp.</P><P>Just a heads-up... still... anything is better than IE (is it finally dead, I hope) and chrome which I will never use again after using it for one day gave me about 6 viruses ... back when I tried it about 4 yrs ago.</P> Thu, 22 Feb 2024 00:04:45 GMT Deflate_a_mouse 2024-02-22T00:04:45Z https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/discussions/just-some-suggestions-and-this-is-gonna-sound-kinda-negative-but/m-p/51973#M18470 <P>OK, I'm this close to removing firefox from my comp.</P><P>The reason is, I pretty much only use yandex for my searches since they are the least censored politically (I hate politics but I'm not gonna listen to mainstream "news").</P><P>Firefox constantly required me to prove I wasn't a bot on yandex, I don't know which side is responsible but I got real sick of it... then I finally installed the yandex browser and it is lightning fast and nowhere near as bloated... only thing is there are not many Yandex add-ons right now, but I'm sure they will get there.</P><P>Concurrently firefox slowed to a crawl compared to the old days, and very few add-ons were working, part of the problem was I do not update it, but when I broke down and updated today it STILL GIVES 2 VERSIONS OF FIREFOX ON MY COMP - LAME - and it was a real pain finding my profiles stuff and copying over...this is one reason why I NEVER update stuff on a stable comp.</P><P>Just a heads-up... still... anything is better than IE (is it finally dead, I hope) and chrome which I will never use again after using it for one day gave me about 6 viruses ... back when I tried it about 4 yrs ago.</P> Thu, 22 Feb 2024 00:04:45 GMT https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/discussions/just-some-suggestions-and-this-is-gonna-sound-kinda-negative-but/m-p/51973#M18470 Deflate_a_mouse 2024-02-22T00:04:45Z