Ask HN: Who's switched from Chrome to Firefox 57? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: Who's switched from Chrome to Firefox 57?

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Post by ccakes » Wed, Nov 15, 2017, 9:08 PM UTC

I've been on FF Nightly for the last couple of months but recently switched back to Safari. On a MacBook 12" (i5) Firefox did terrible things to the battery life and generated enough heat that I'd often find the CPU throttling.

Neither Safari or Chrome have the same issues. I haven't really tried FF since the nightly jumped to 59 but I keep it updated and occasionally check to see whether this has been fixed.

Re: Ask HN: Who's switched from Chrome to Firefox 57?

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Post by danilocesar » Wed, Nov 15, 2017, 9:08 PM UTC

I rely on Chrome and Google's integration. I'm pretty sure I would catch on fire if I try to change...

ps: I use both, chrome for personal stuff and FF for work.

Re: Ask HN: Who's switched from Chrome to Firefox 57?

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Post by dmlittle » Wed, Nov 15, 2017, 9:09 PM UTC

bllguo wrote: post #36

dmlittle wrote: post #5

I really like container tabs (you have to enable them in about:config - privacy.userContext.enabled and privacy.userContext.ui.enabled). It allows me to have multiple AWS accounts open at the same time without having 2 different browsers or one account open in private mode. I have 2 main containers I use: production and staging.

How did you define custom containers? I only see the 4 defaults of personal, work, banking, shopping.

To enable it in FF57 you have to enable the options in about:config (I believe it's enabled by default in FF58). Go to about:config in your browser and enable the following flags: 1) privacy.userContext.enabled and 2) privacy.userContext.ui.enabled

Once they are enabled, you can create under Settings > General > Tabs > Settings

Re: Ask HN: Who's switched from Chrome to Firefox 57?

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Post by trumpeta » Wed, Nov 15, 2017, 9:10 PM UTC

Me! I have been running nightly for the past couple of months and it is really good. I use uBlock, Res, Ghostery and Imagus. I use Compact and Dark UI mode and it seems more compact than chrome. Also I noticed it consumes a lot less memory, but CPU is 50/50 I'd say. One thing that I find a bit weird is that I find that some Google services work worse, like YouTube eats more CPU than on chrome when it is not maximized and sometimes my connections to google time out for seemingly no reason.

Re: Ask HN: Who's switched from Chrome to Firefox 57?

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Post by CreepGin » Wed, Nov 15, 2017, 9:10 PM UTC

dmlittle wrote: post #5

I really like container tabs (you have to enable them in about:config - privacy.userContext.enabled and privacy.userContext.ui.enabled). It allows me to have multiple AWS accounts open at the same time without having 2 different browsers or one account open in private mode. I have 2 main containers I use: production and staging.

Nice! I never knew this existed. This will make my life easier using sites that don't really have multiple account management.

Re: Ask HN: Who's switched from Chrome to Firefox 57?

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Post by ConnerFritz » Wed, Nov 15, 2017, 9:10 PM UTC

Xcelerate wrote: post #19

I've used Chrome continuously ever since it was released, but today I switched to Firefox on both my work and personal laptops. Both machines are Macbook Pros, one 2012 and the other 2017, and Chrome feels laggy on both. Scrolling is not smooth, and certain web applications are just downright unpleasant to use (notably, Jupyter notebooks and Facebook). I gave Firefox Quantum a try, and it's an amazing improvement. Th…

This has just convinced me to try it.

Re: Ask HN: Who's switched from Chrome to Firefox 57?

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Post by techsupporter » Wed, Nov 15, 2017, 9:11 PM UTC

dmlittle wrote: post #5

I really like container tabs (you have to enable them in about:config - privacy.userContext.enabled and privacy.userContext.ui.enabled). It allows me to have multiple AWS accounts open at the same time without having 2 different browsers or one account open in private mode. I have 2 main containers I use: production and staging.

Or you can install the multi-account containers add-on in FF57: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multi-account...

Re: Ask HN: Who's switched from Chrome to Firefox 57?

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Post by girzel » Wed, Nov 15, 2017, 9:11 PM UTC

Switched yesterday, so far loving it! My objection to Chrome was mostly on principle (anti-Google), so it's nice that there's a performance-based reason to switch to Firefox as well.

Though I just ran into a problem that reminded me of why I stopped using Firefox in the first place: I used xdg-open a lot (in Emacs), and Firefox tries to supplant that whole functionality. It advertises itself as being able to open pretty much every file under the sun, and then prompts you to choose an application to actually use to open the file.

I wasn't asking you, Firefox, I was asking xdg-open.

Re: Ask HN: Who's switched from Chrome to Firefox 57?

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Post by dochtman » Wed, Nov 15, 2017, 9:12 PM UTC

corford wrote: post #39

I never left FF so picked 57 up as a normal update. Love everything about it so far except the new theme which is taking me longer than I'd like to adjust to (not a big fan of the dark blue/cobalt menubar).

You know there's a light theme you can switch to in Customize mode, right?

Re: Ask HN: Who's switched from Chrome to Firefox 57?

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Post by vizzah » Wed, Nov 15, 2017, 9:12 PM UTC

dmlittle wrote: post #5

I really like container tabs (you have to enable them in about:config - privacy.userContext.enabled and privacy.userContext.ui.enabled). It allows me to have multiple AWS accounts open at the same time without having 2 different browsers or one account open in private mode. I have 2 main containers I use: production and staging.

Is there also a proxy/VPN support per container? That would be stellar :)