So been moving around a lot with browsers, waterfox, librewolf and very recently degoogle chromium, figured id look at Firefox and holy theres less than half the option in setting then there were afew years back but I gotta say the biggest sin is that adding custom search engine is obfuscated, and the chooses of engines are google, bing, duckduckgo and fucking Amazon! Wtf is that about? But anyway all these search engines are pretty awful including duckduckgo but beyond that the browser scene is a joke, mullvad are about the only company I feel compatible with using now
Edit: instead of saying how easy it is to add custom search engines, I'd like to know why the "add search engine" feature in settings is gone?
The number of downvotes is bullshit, so you get an upvote from me. People tend to exhibit tribalism when it comes to browsers and distros; don't ask me why.
I am a Firefox fanboy and long-time user, and I agree with OP that shit like Google and Amazon needs to not be in Firefox. But alas, these kinds of partnerships (esp with Google) are Mozilla's primary source of funding, so I take it as a necessary evil.
Every browser and company that makes the browser is guilty of some horse fuckery (with Brave for example, their BAT shit). You have to just adjust the browser settings to your liking and get on with life, not dwelling on its flaws.
So just configure Firefox, make sure to install uBlock, read the Arkenfox GitHub page and harden Firefox accordingly, and enjoy using a pretty awesome browser. Do not use a fork (eg Librewolf) because they lag behind Firefox for security updates, with the exception of Mullvad, which is ok to use.
Happy browsing and welcome to the Firefox community!
Sincerely, A Sane User
Agreed, I think it's because a lot of people here have the "firefox vs chromium" mentality, rather than the correct "firefox vs librewolf" mentality.
people are probably seeing this as an attack on firefox and so someone switching to chromium