Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

Ask HN: For those who use Chrome, why do you?

news.ycombinator.com

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

111–118 of 118 posts

Re: Ask HN: For those who use Chrome, why do you?

#111

Post by _odey »

tmottabr wrote: post #106
_odey wrote: post #98

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm afraid you're both wrong, containers are an add-on, profiles are a core functionality. That person does not want something new, they just want to use their existing workflow, which is possible, but inconvenient due to bad UX and ugly UI. These are their words, not mine. As a user of both containers and profiles in Firefox I have to agree with them. The UX needs to improve and the UI needs to be prettyfied.

container is a core functionality in Firefox, but it is mostly hidden away. the add-ons are basically just the interfaces for you to access that core functionality. If you don't want to trust the add-on developer just use the official one made by Mozila. It is the one i use. https://addons.mozilla.org/pt-BR/firefox/addon/multi-account...

This has nothing to do with trust, a profile gives you a different set of add-ons, bookmarks, search history, saved passwords, cache and cookies, a container only gives you a different set of cookies.

Re: Ask HN: For those who use Chrome, why do you?

#112

Post by readflaggedcomm »

aloer wrote: post #81
readflaggedcomm wrote: post #70

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Firefox also has vertical tab extensions you could switch on as needed.

Vertical tabs mean that all web sites (that are usually built to be somewhat symmetric) are no longer centered on the screen

I don't understand that complaint, but I rarely maximize my browser.

Re: Ask HN: For those who use Chrome, why do you?

#113

Post by tmottabr »

_odey wrote: post #111
tmottabr wrote: post #106

Earlier quoted context omitted.

container is a core functionality in Firefox, but it is mostly hidden away. the add-ons are basically just the interfaces for you to access that core functionality. If you don't want to trust the add-on developer just use the official one made by Mozila. It is the one i use. https://addons.mozilla.org/pt-BR/firefox/addon/multi-account...

This has nothing to do with trust, a profile gives you a different set of add-ons, bookmarks, search history, saved passwords, cache and cookies, a container only gives you a different set of cookies.

This does not change the fact that container is a core functionality in Firefox.. and for some using addon is a matter of trust.. Also does not change the fact that chrome does not have anything like it..

Additionally Firefix also have profiles as a core funtionality, it already had it before chrome even existed so it had it much longer then chrome had.. But again is mostly hidden away..

You can access it with the command below:

firefox -ProfileManager

But as with containers there are add-ons to make as easy as chrome to switch between profiles.. Although i don't think there is an official one by Mozilla..

Re: Ask HN: For those who use Chrome, why do you?

#114

Post by lcall »

Late to this but: I still use Chromium (and Iridium, a derivative that hopefully doesn't send info to Google), specifically on OpenBSD, for reasons summarized here (lower chance of privilege escalation, limiting bad behavior, easier to configure and quickly change javascript/images/cookies behavior generally and per-site): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21566041 (...and discussed further in the parents of the above link, like: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21559122 or the full recent related discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21557309 ).

Given which, I might have switched to Firefox for some uses after a recent OpenBSD release where I think it got the pledlge/unveil support (preventing it from accessing the computer beyond config-specified limits), except for the JS/cookies/images config stuff (and that I got the impression the pledge/unveil stuff might be less useful in a less-well-organized code base...?).

One thing I wish I knew about firefox is a way, without extensions/add-ons, to limit which sites can use javascript/images/etc., and/or to open multiple config tabs at once to quickly turn those on by exception for occasional specific sites, as I do with chrome. Exception lists, even better. This was discussed a little bit at those above links.

[When I said those things before, someone replied helpfully, here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21724710 ].

Re: Ask HN: For those who use Chrome, why do you?

#115

Post by pvtmert »

newscracker wrote: post #95
pvtmert wrote: post #54

I am actually suprised nobody mentions profiles. I seperate stuff using profiles (little avatar next to menu button on top-right corner) Especially important if you want to split your clients' stuff and with your own things. (History, bookmarks, sync) And sync is the second reason. Of course firefox would work too but they were just late to the game. I already had lots of stuff (bookmarks, history, passwords) to migr…

On sync, Firefox has had sync from before Google Chrome was publicly released. Depending on when you started using Google Chrome and on which platform, you may have missed noticing that Firefox had it.

Firefox's fragmentation in Linux was so bad that I stopped using it. Debian shipped with Iceweasel or ESR, some parts patched/changed.

Compared to chrome (which kept very stable line of features or bugs) ff was mess.

Re: Ask HN: For those who use Chrome, why do you?

#116

Post by pvtmert »

trog wrote: post #78
pvtmert wrote: post #54

I am actually suprised nobody mentions profiles. I seperate stuff using profiles (little avatar next to menu button on top-right corner) Especially important if you want to split your clients' stuff and with your own things. (History, bookmarks, sync) And sync is the second reason. Of course firefox would work too but they were just late to the game. I already had lots of stuff (bookmarks, history, passwords) to migr…

> And sync is the second reason. Of course firefox would work too but they were just late to the game. I already had lots of stuff (bookmarks, history, passwords) to migrate to... You probably know this but if you install Firefox now it will prompt you to import all your settings from Chrome. You can also set up sync between all your Firefox instances (including mobile).

First couple months it didn't even worked for me. (I was in Turkey at the time)

Also sync matters mostly with mobile. I guess whoever downvoting me just thinks syncing is for desktop...

Re: Ask HN: For those who use Chrome, why do you?

#118

Post by Siira »

atarikraken wrote: post #4

I've used every popular browser (chrome/edge/old edge/firefox/opera/brave/chromium/vivaldi) on Windows. Chrome works most smooth of the time without any funny issues. Supposedly people said Edge is Chromium based, and is better, less memory usage, etc. I tried it, it just feels more clunky, takes longer to open, pages take longer to load. I also dislike the interface, chrome's interface seems more natural to me. And…

You can simply open youtube links with mpv.
Post reply on HN