• DarkThoughts@fedia.io
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    7 months ago

    If we don’t see a somewhat significant rise in Firefox usage increases after this, then I fear that battle is already lost. People can complain a lot but doing something as easy as switching browsers seems to be the hardest thing for most of them.

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      7 months ago

      I’m not asking this facetiously but: is there an easy way to migrate my bookmarks, tabs, and pinned tabs easily to Firefox? I looked maybe a year ago but didn’t find a 1 to 1 easy switch way to go to Firefox.

      To be clear: my personal laptop is all Firefox, but I don’t use it all the time. My main desktop is an integration of all three (please don’t judge), but I’d like to go full Firefox if it was convenient.

      • fine_sandy_bottom@discuss.tchncs.de
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        7 months ago

        I’m not saying this facetiously but I just don’t understand what could possibly be so important that you need a “1 to 1 easy switch way”.

        Import your bookmarks. Pin some tabs.

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          7 months ago

          Convenience, similar to ninite.com. Sure I could download each installer one by one, but when it was made simple I now use it all the time.

          Similarly with Firefox: the easier you make it to switch from any Chromium based web browser, to Firefox, the more people will make the switch. To me your comment is equivalent to someone saying RTFM.

          • fine_sandy_bottom@discuss.tchncs.de
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            7 months ago

            On the contrary.

            With the time you’ve wasted complaining about having to RTFM you could’ve already imported your my little pony bookmark collection and be clop clopping off into the sunset.

            You really don’t need a manual.

    • Toes♀@ani.social
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      7 months ago

      In my experience people have a poor understanding of the software they use, it just needs to continue working as it always has.

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      7 months ago

      I fear that battle is already lost

      I do. I’d be surprised if we see any kind of increase.

      Firefox is going to slide into obscurity. They’ve been in a downward spiral for the last few years. So much money wasted on so many failed projects. They’re a shadow of their former selves. The features of firefox are improving of course but by every metric that matters they’re on life support.

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      7 months ago

      You Grandma and her Chromebook don’t care though. The numbers aren’t in our favor, but Mozilla absolutely dominating in the features and privacy arenas is.