Switch to firefox, before google's heavyweight prowess forces it out of the market!
Firefox on macOS takes an order of magnitude longer to start or do anything than Chromium (Chrome, Opera) or Safari.
Google to Remove Chrome “Close Other Tabs” and “Close Tabs to the Right” Options
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#42Switch to firefox, before google's heavyweight prowess forces it out of the market!
Firefox on macOS takes an order of magnitude longer to start or do anything than Chromium (Chrome, Opera) or Safari.
may be, or may be not. However, does it really matter how long the browser takes to start when you don't ever really close the browser (but only the tabs)?
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#44Chrome is becoming the browser of the masses. Power user usability features are disappearing. I'm still upset over the removal of the backspace key as "back" navigation. I shouldn't need an extension for this.
What are the cool kids using these days, I wouldn't mind a change
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#45Earlier quoted context omitted.
Wow! My first thought was, "How would anyone discover that?" How did you?
This has been a pattern for selecting ranges of text for a long time: if you place your cursor in one location and shift click in another it will select all the text in between. Also works with most file browsers. It's not too hard to imagine generalizing this to tabs, too. Bonus fact: the itemized selection done via Ctrl-click also works with tabs. If you use Ctrl-W you can close these tabs, or if you drag one of th…
Speaking of patterns, I was pleasantly surprised that cmd+g works same on many browsers as in text editors - navigates to a next search result.
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#46sad news for me, I use both every single time :(
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#47I live and die by these two cmds on my browser. wow. how else do people manage the avalanche of tabs that is browsing today?
As someone who rarely has more than a few tabs open, I honestly don't get this. What are you doing with so many tabs?
I can't speak for the other commenters, but for me it's because my browsing style was formed back in the days of dialup in Australia. You'd click a link and wait 30+ seconds to have the page load, so instead of staring a loading page you'd open anything that looked interesting in a new tab and continue on the current page, so all the interesting links would be there ready to read without waiting. invariably you wouldn't end up having enough time to read them all, but they piqued your interest enough to open them, so you'd keep them around in the hope that some time later you would. Rinse, lather, repeat, and add in persistent browser sessions between restarts and suddenly you've got 100+ tabs open.
The internet is much faster these days, but I still open way more links than I actually have time to read because they sound interesting
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#48Usage stats, from article: - Duplicate: 23.21% - Reload: 22.74% - Pin / Unpin tab: 13.12% - Close tab: 9.68% - Reopen closed tab: 8.92% - New tab: 6.63% - Close tabs to the right: 6.06% - Mute tab: 5.38% - Close other tabs: 2.20% - Unmute tab: 1.41% - Bookmark all tabs: 0.64%
I really hope they don't remove mute/unmute. I absolutely love that feature. Most users don't seem to know about it.
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#49Earlier quoted context omitted.
Firefox on macOS takes an order of magnitude longer to start or do anything than Chromium (Chrome, Opera) or Safari.
may be, or may be not. However, does it really matter how long the browser takes to start when you don't ever really close the browser (but only the tabs)?
A bowser isn't a Sun box. In the real world, browsers and computers restart occasionally. Also, opening a new tab in FF hangs everything for several seconds whereas in Chrome and Safari it's still responsive. It's like FF is doing everything on the main event queue synchronously.
Numbers. Even with a top-tier SSD and 16 GiB of fast RAM starting cold (with minimal, necessary plugins):
FF: 25s
Safari: 13s
Chrome: 8s
Without plugins, hot restart (absolutely worthless):
FF: 5s
Safari: 3s
Chrome: 2s
Using FF UX is like replacing an SSD with an HDD.
FF has a nice mission, but it doesn't matter if it's not better than the others, which includes both being usable and fast, in addition to privacy and security.
Conclusion: FF is nice in theory, but not currently usable in practice unless you enjoy wasting your time.
Re: Google to Remove Chrome “Close Other Tabs” and “Close Tabs to the Right” Options
#50Chrome is becoming the browser of the masses. Power user usability features are disappearing. I'm still upset over the removal of the backspace key as "back" navigation. I shouldn't need an extension for this.
Chrome was never a power user browser.
The hint is the name: like falling a hairless man "Curly", Chrome had less UI chrome and festures than other browsers when released.
The awesome dev tools were simply because they dogfood well.