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Re: Ask HN: What browser extensions do you use?

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Post by Lordarminius »

Mathnerd314 wrote: post #15
wirddin wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Off-topic but why do you (still) use Firefox? Is it speed? Because I have tried switching just to come back to Chrome.

For me it's the tab overflow behavior: Firefox has the left/right arrows and a dropdown menu, while Chrome just has tiny tabs: http://www.ghacks.net/2013/11/07/dealing-google-chromes-tab-... . And I have 31 tabs open now (sometimes 200+) so it would be a daily problem.

> I have 31 tabs open now (sometimes 200+) each this level How do you achieve this? Firefox for me tends to crash long before I reach this level

Re: Ask HN: What browser extensions do you use?

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Post by jwilk »

silvaben wrote: post #4
Inconel wrote: post #3

Chrome - uBlock Origin FF - uBlock Origin, Decentraleyes, Random Agent Spoofer, Self-Destructing Cookies

Random Agent Spoofer seems like a good one. Trying it out on FF now.

Random Agent Spoofer reminds me of: https://xkcd.com/1105/

Re: Ask HN: What browser extensions do you use?

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Post by Wofiel »

Lordarminius wrote: post #21
Mathnerd314 wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For me it's the tab overflow behavior: Firefox has the left/right arrows and a dropdown menu, while Chrome just has tiny tabs: http://www.ghacks.net/2013/11/07/dealing-google-chromes-tab-... . And I have 31 tabs open now (sometimes 200+) so it would be a daily problem.

> I have 31 tabs open now (sometimes 200+) each this level How do you achieve this? Firefox for me tends to crash long before I reach this level

Not parent, but I've had well over two thousand tabs in Firefox + Tree Style Tabs before. They're usually accumulated over a number of sessions. If you don't open a tab, the page itself isn't actually loader yet, so very, very rarely are more than 100 or so actually loaded. Every now I'll go through and cull, but my browsing experience is never really inhibited by them.

For me it's 100% how I browse now, I don't think I could go back. I only open links in new tabs (which places them as branches in the tree) and it's a wonderfully useful spatial/temporal way of showing history, which is also saved between sessions (so bookmarks don't really replace them)

Re: Ask HN: What browser extensions do you use?

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Post by 0x54MUR41 »

wirddin wrote: post #8
0x54MUR41 wrote: post #7

uBlock Origin and Evernote Web Clipper. I only use Mozilla Firefox, though.

Off-topic but why do you (still) use Firefox? Is it speed? Because I have tried switching just to come back to Chrome.

Someone has already mentioned it. I use Firefox because OSS, privacy, and memory consumption. From my experience, Chrome browser consumes more memory than Firefox. I know, for better result of web page, Chrome wins.

Eventhough, Firefox is my main browser. I still use Chrome browser when I need to debug a JavaScript program.

Anyway, why did you come back to Chrome?

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