Switching from Google

[junesleep]

Hello, I'm pretty happy about this so I wanted to share. I've always preferred Firefox because I have pretty big privacy concerns about Google and stuff like that. Firefox has really stood out in my mind because of their focus on privacy, less distracting additions, and against the selling of personal data. I really respect it for that. But for the longest time I had two browsers: Firefox, the one I would use for fun fandom stuff, and Google, the one I would use for more personal stuff. It was always a hassle going between them and I had my dislike of Google and setting up a second account on Firefox was always so much trouble to do.

But just today, and I don't know if they updated this to make it easier or what, I was able to download all my bookmarks and passwords to a SEPARATE Firefox account! Now I have two accounts on this browser! I'm so happy about it. Now I just need to log in to everything I need. It's been so nice, though.

Update from 9:48 PM -- I did something else! I experimented on my old laptop by switching over the system from Windows to Linux Mint. It took three hours of troubleshooting and MANY restarts of that poor old laptop, but I got it working! I was so proud of myself, even though I don't fully know how to use it or how it will benefit me. But my laptop seems to be working pretty quickly. Just to put into perspective how old this laptop is: it couldn't update past Windows 8.1 and I had to deal with slowness and other issues. It's so interesting to work with a different system. I also like that it gives me an opportunity to test out if it would be worth switching over my newer, current laptop over to Linux.