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Re: Browse Against the Machine

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Post by SolarNet »

lucb1e wrote: post #93
Sylos wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

browser.tabs.remote.autostart should already be default-enabled, unless your extensions aren't compatible with it. It'll tell you "disabled by add-ons" in about:support, if that's the case. And you can enable multiple content processes prior to Firefox 54 by setting dom.ipc.processCount to a number higher than 1. This is the maximum number of content processes that it'll use, as you open more tabs. So, if your number…

I didn't know about about:support, nice. It indeed says "disabled by addons". Other than a binary search, how do I figure out which one(s)?

The addons ( about:addons ) page will tell you on a per addon basis.

Re: Browse Against the Machine

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Post by dubya »

wodenokoto wrote: post #76
pandatigox wrote: post #28

I'm going add a controversial opinion. I've been using Firefox my whole life but recently I'm finding Safari to be a more appealing option than both Firefox or Chrome. Firefox, and Chrome to an extent, are powerhouses. They have a great community with awesome and really creative extensions. Safari only just started adding extensions and it shows: apart from the usual ad blocker stuff, there's not much out there. But…

Safari plays extremely well with the rest of MacOS. So well that I don't mind it being behind the curve on web technologies, its adblocking options being inferior or that it is missing some of my favourite plugins. Zooming and scrolling is extremely smooth, the rubber effect when scrolling out of bounds is enjoyable. The transition animation when using two-finger swipe for back/forward makes me feel in control of my…

Safari has uBlock Origin now, so adblocking is decent. What I still use Firefox for is tree-style tabs, which as far as I know isn't a possibility in Safari.

Re: Browse Against the Machine

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Post by SolarNet »

itaysk wrote: post #92

The main reason why I dislike ff is it's GUI. Chrome is beautifully minimal, and ff is the opposite. also - unify search and address bar already.

They have added search features to the URL bar. And you can remove the search bar if you no longer want it. However many people prefer to use the search bar. For example if I am googling for "System.IO" how does the browser know that's a search and not a URL, hence I put it in the search bar.

Re: Browse Against the Machine

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Post by johnsmith21006 »

pandatigox wrote: post #28

I'm going add a controversial opinion. I've been using Firefox my whole life but recently I'm finding Safari to be a more appealing option than both Firefox or Chrome. Firefox, and Chrome to an extent, are powerhouses. They have a great community with awesome and really creative extensions. Safari only just started adding extensions and it shows: apart from the usual ad blocker stuff, there's not much out there. But…

You must have a different Safari than the one I have. Apple has the resources to make Safari competitive with Chrome but does not even try. For whatever reason Apple is not interested.

The problem is everything today is mobile which means Apple and Google and one is not really trying. This is causing the imbalance, imo.

Re: Browse Against the Machine

#105

Post by johnsmith21006 »

joecool1029 wrote: post #59
Melchizedek wrote: post #40

I trusted them until they de facto fired a prominent employee for his political opinions - opinions shared by a large portion of the population. If they can do that to an employee, what can't they do to you , an anonymous user? That said, I stick with Firefox for private use. But the trust is gone.

The last thing we were keeping it around for was the extension support, but they unfortunately killed that so I now recommend Edge over Firefox for resource-constrained systems. It's not there yet, but it's got a brighter future than Firefox. But yeah nothing pissed me off more than them saying they support choice when they kill off well-supported standards they don't like [1], fire employees over their (common) reli…

Would stay away from Edge until matures. There has been significant Edge security issues way more frequently than I would be comfortable.

Re: Browse Against the Machine

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Post by lucb1e »

DavideNL wrote: post #100
lucb1e wrote: post #97

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Curious: do you use pinching with two hands or with one? I hate the pinch to zoom on any platform: on mobile it always rotates the view when I want north to be up (so I use the +/- buttons); and on a touchpad with one hand... I mean, my thumb is opposable but my other fingers are not made to move more in that direction. I'd have to get my other hand away from the keyboard (or from under my head, depending on what I'm…

On the touchpad i always use one hand, my right hand: Index+Ring finger, I just move them sideways. actually i never thought about that. I just noticed that the person in the example video http://i.imgur.com/AvLLbuy.gif seems to use Thumb+Index finger.

Ah, right, with those fingers it works a lot better indeed!

Re: Browse Against the Machine

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Post by lucb1e »

SolarNet wrote: post #101
lucb1e wrote: post #93

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I didn't know about about:support, nice. It indeed says "disabled by addons". Other than a binary search, how do I figure out which one(s)?

The addons ( about:addons ) page will tell you on a per addon basis.

I don't see it. Each addon has its icon, title, description, a "more" link, and a disable, uninstall and preferences button. On the more page (trying a few) I don't see any indication either. Where does it show for you?

Re: Browse Against the Machine

#109

Post by eriknstr »

roblabla wrote: post #32
pandatigox wrote: post #28

I'm going add a controversial opinion. I've been using Firefox my whole life but recently I'm finding Safari to be a more appealing option than both Firefox or Chrome. Firefox, and Chrome to an extent, are powerhouses. They have a great community with awesome and really creative extensions. Safari only just started adding extensions and it shows: apart from the usual ad blocker stuff, there's not much out there. But…

Safari being MacOS-only doesn't help its cause very much. It's also so far behind on web standards that some started to call it "the new IE"[0]. Since this, apple started to show some new love to safari in the form of the safari tech preview, but it's still far from where it should be... [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12051267

Furthermore, Safari is proprietary. Firefox is not and most of Chrome is not (Chromium).

Re: Browse Against the Machine

#110

Post by abrowne »

cmurf wrote: post #72

I don't have many problems with Firefox desktop, but in particular Firefox on Android (and Chrome to some degree as well) is increasingly a nightmare with news pages. As I'm scrolling and reading, the content jumps around as reflows occur when e.g. an embedded ad or video renders and is squeezed into the content. Instead of rendering the complete page with holes for this embedded content to eventually appear, Firefox…

Two words: Reader View
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