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Chrome tab bar reduces width and overflows, Firefox tab bar scrolls That’s makes chrome more power user friendly. Sadly
Firefox also has vertical tab extensions you could switch on as needed.
Chrome tab bar reduces width and overflows, Firefox tab bar scrolls That’s makes chrome more power user friendly. Sadly
To me it's the opposite! I'm a tab hoarder. A tab bar like ||||||||||||||||||| is unusable, but Firefox's approach scales infinitely (and I'm on track to have inifinity+1 tabs open)
Usually that means I open a ton of windows and can still see all the tabs in each window
One reason is that chrome vulnerabilities are between 3 and 5 times more expensive. And thus, I would guess, more rare. Sources: https://www.zerodium.com/program.html https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/blog/2021/1/25/announcing-...
* Switched a couple of years ago from Firefox because of better dev tools. * GPU acceleration doesn't work properly with Firefox/Linux (Dell G5 SE, Ryzen 4800H). Some sites I use daily, such as Google Maps, are painfully slow/laggy on Firefox. * There's something about the Firefox's scrolling behaviour that I find really annoying. * It works well across all platforms (Firefox on Android wasn't great last time I check…
You don't consider tracking your location against your explicit settings a betrayal? Or the pushing of AMP? https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/aug/13/google-lo...
Since I use Google as my main search engine, Google already knows what I've clicked on, so in that case AMP is just an annoyance, not a privacy concern.
Google spent enormous efforts to make the internet fast (Chrome, V8, QUIC, SPDY & HTTP/2, BBR, TLS 1.3, etc.) I will give them the benefit of the doubt that they developed AMP for performance reasons and not for tracking reasons.
I'm personally less concerned about the recording of the data, than the security of the data. Leaks due to security incomptence (e.g. the Facebook leak) seem like a much bigger imminent threat to me.
* Switched a couple of years ago from Firefox because of better dev tools. * GPU acceleration doesn't work properly with Firefox/Linux (Dell G5 SE, Ryzen 4800H). Some sites I use daily, such as Google Maps, are painfully slow/laggy on Firefox. * There's something about the Firefox's scrolling behaviour that I find really annoying. * It works well across all platforms (Firefox on Android wasn't great last time I check…
I've made Firefox my default browser on Android a couple of months ago and I'd say it's basically completely usable at this point.
I am running it with NoScript on, which is probably more of an exercise in masochism than anything else - more or less every site loads broken, of course, without JS these days, and a recent change to the Firefox addon interface means selectively enabling scripts to get it working is a multi-tap pain in the ass. I am probably going to switch to uBlock Origin (which someone here mentioned works now in FF mobile).
Performance wise I'd say it's probably a bit slower but still perfectly usable (running it on a Pixel 3 and a Motorola OneVision).
I enabled sync on it as well, with an account created just to sync between my two mobile devices, and it works fine.
I don't but I can share a reason someone I know uses it instead of Firefox: profile switcher. In Chrome you have pretty little button you click on that lists all your profiles in a nice looking way; with two actions you're done. In Firefox, you have to type about:profiles, you get a horrendously looking list with all sorts of useless information, it's just a pain to access and look at. Implement the same UX Chrome ha…
Not sure what your use case is, but Firefox’s containers might solve your problem with the older profile system: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multi-account...
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I need to try this. Are those features available on Android too?
I don't have Android, but it can't hurt to check: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/android/addon/multi-account...
On my iPad and iPhone I use Safari.
I mainly do web development. Anecdotally I hear about more problems from Firefox users than from Chrome, Safari, or Edge users. Sometimes that's not a problem with Firefox but it does seem to exist as the outlier.
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If privacy + security is your goal, you ought to change from Chrome to Brave. Brave is Chromium-based but actually protects your privacy. If privacy above all is your goal, then Firefox is your best bet.
Brave have been caught with their fingers in the cookie jar multiple times. I don't know if it's more secure than Firefox but it's definitely less private.
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You don't consider tracking your location against your explicit settings a betrayal? Or the pushing of AMP? https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/aug/13/google-lo...
I've enabled the Timeline feature in Google Maps, which records everywhere I go. The benefit I get out of that feature outweighs the privacy concerns for me. Since I use Google as my main search engine, Google already knows what I've clicked on, so in that case AMP is just an annoyance, not a privacy concern. Google spent enormous efforts to make the internet fast (Chrome, V8, QUIC, SPDY & HTTP/2, BBR, TLS 1.3, etc.)…