

And that's currently under threat of dominance by Google. If you care about the Web as a public commons, then you care that it's built on open and interoperable standards. has given millions of dollars in grants to support open source software throughout the worldĪnd they have done it all in the open, for the benefit of the public, under open source licenses. actively supports the Tor project and are merging Tor's patches into mainline Firefox created a completely free network geolocation database, so you don't have to rely on Apple or Google to know where you are are liberating IoT devices from proprietary apps and protocols to ensure the future of connected devices looks more like the open web are gathering a public corpus of voice recordings and a training a speech-to-text engine to ensure that voice recognition works for everyone around the world invented Rust, an entirely new programming language to build faster and safer software (and it's not just for Mozilla, Rust is in production everywhere-if you use Dropbox or Visual Studio Code, you're relying on Rust) created and runs MDN, the standard reference documentation for Web technology Mozilla does good (for the web)Ī lot of this is taken from a comment by /u/callahad This wiki cannot hope to cover the various reasons you may want to switch to Firefox. The easiest way to do this is to click the blue Refresh Firefox icon on the linked page. To reset Firefox's settings, refresh Firefox. If you already have Firefox installed but haven't used it in a long time, it is a good idea to reset Firefox's settings (keeping your passwords, bookmarks, logins, and history) to bring Firefox back to 100% performance.

Follow the import settings steps instead.

If you already have Firefox installed, you may not see the import settings dialog on startup. Unfortunately, password import from Linux is not yet working, so you will need to migrate passwords manually if you are on Linux. Keep Chrome installed so that Firefox detects it when starting up for the first time. The simplest way to switch from Chrome is to import settings from Chrome. Keep in mind that all versions can be installed concurrently, so you don't really have to make a single choice! We recommend using Firefox Sync to keep your browsers in sync (especially with your mobile devices, if you have one). See our release channel guide to help make a decision. Welcome to /r/firefox help on switching to Firefox! Download Firefox Which version should I download? Add-ons to replace features you may be used to.Differences from features you may be used to.Opera, Chrome, other Chromium based browsers.
