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 bllguo » Wed, Nov 15, 2017, 9:12 PM UTC

dmlittle wrote: post #43

bllguo wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Ah, got it. I use Nightly; there's a Container Tabs > Settings page in Preferences. Thanks for pointing me in the right direction!

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

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

trumpeta wrote: post #44

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…

Should I get out my tinfoil hat or is it more likely that Chrome is just taking advantage of optimizations that other browsers don't have access to or knowledge of.

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

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Post by kpwags » Wed, Nov 15, 2017, 9:13 PM UTC

I switched about a month or so ago once Nightly hit 57. I have to say I love the speed and performance of it.

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

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Post by submeta » Wed, Nov 15, 2017, 9:13 PM UTC

It's been years that I abandoned Chrome ;) Was using Safari mainly and Firefox for web dev purposes. But FF 57 impressed me so much that I switched a couple of days ago, moving all my bookmarks, history, plugins etc to FF. Goodbye Safari, hello FF. :)

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

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Post by scrollaway » Wed, Nov 15, 2017, 9:13 PM UTC

I really, really wanted to switch, but I saw that switching tabs with mousewheel (which can be done in Chrome and most other Linux apps) is still not possible, and the Tab Wheel Scroll extension, which I previously used to work around the issue, is no longer compatible.

So Firefox is unfortunately an unusable web browser for me :/

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

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Post by Scarbutt » Wed, Nov 15, 2017, 9:13 PM UTC

I can't, relying heavily on google docs and google keep lately.

I have been browsing with FF 57, Chrome still feels faster to me.

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

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Post by inetknght » Wed, Nov 15, 2017, 9:13 PM UTC

I switched from Opera to Firefox with Firefox 56. Firefox 57 is just amazing -- although I had to go and kill all of that pocket bullshit.

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

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Post by dmlittle » Wed, Nov 15, 2017, 9:13 PM UTC

techsupporter wrote: post #47

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...

Do you know what the difference is between this extension and the native support in FF57? It seems to me they are one and the same. Could it be this was an extension that is now natively part of FF Quantum?

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

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Post by dmlittle » Wed, Nov 15, 2017, 9:14 PM UTC

vizzah wrote: post #50

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 :)

I don't believe that is an option right now.

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

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Post by techsupporter » Wed, Nov 15, 2017, 9:16 PM UTC

dmlittle wrote: post #58

techsupporter wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Do you know what the difference is between this extension and the native support in FF57? It seems to me they are one and the same. Could it be this was an extension that is now natively part of FF Quantum?

Honestly not sure. I just read about it in another thread talking about Firefox and some people there were saying that the extension replaces having to go into about:config.