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uBlock Origin Maintainer on Chrome vs. Firefox WebExtensions
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Re: uBlock Origin Maintainer on Chrome vs. Firefox WebExtensions
#242After being a Chrome user for several years, I've switched back to Firefox for the past two years or so and I'm really, really happy with it. Latest version does multi-processing, e10s is finally here (though it might still get disabled by usage of certain add-ons, I remember I had to force it to stay enabled). On performance, in the past it felt sluggish, but now Firefox is fast and for my usage patterns it uses les…
To me, the best feature of Firefox compared to Chromium (both out of the box, no extensions. not sure if there are extensions that could help) is the address bar. Firefox does a fuzzy search into your browsing history and if you visit the same sites often, the suggestions are quite good. Contrast this with Chrome, where the idea behind address bar user experience seems to be maximizing the number of Google searches d…
Especially when we know we have browsed a site before but forgot the URL and remember only some portions of the title.
Firefox address bar is just more productive in simple things like re-opening frequent/historical sites.
Re: uBlock Origin Maintainer on Chrome vs. Firefox WebExtensions
#243After being a Chrome user for several years, I've switched back to Firefox for the past two years or so and I'm really, really happy with it. Latest version does multi-processing, e10s is finally here (though it might still get disabled by usage of certain add-ons, I remember I had to force it to stay enabled). On performance, in the past it felt sluggish, but now Firefox is fast and for my usage patterns it uses les…
One thing I've been finding lately with firefox is that the Netflix website is abysmally slow. It lags on loading, goes unresponsive a lot etc etc. I've always watched twitch in Chrome (second browser, other screen, works fine) because firefox used to be bad. It's likely that I will start doing the same with Netflix.
If you can watch Netflix with Firefox, sounds like you're on Windows or macOS.
The best browsers for Netflix are IE or Safari. Chrome and Firefox support up to 720p only.
Re: uBlock Origin Maintainer on Chrome vs. Firefox WebExtensions
#244Earlier quoted context omitted.
Which version of Firefox is that? It recently became much faster, and is set to see yet another improvement with version 57 (due in three months, I believe).
Firefox 54.0.1 on macOS 10.12.6. Firefox says it's up-to-date.
57 is Firefox Nightly. They’ve done a lot of performance work in between 54 and 57.
Re: uBlock Origin Maintainer on Chrome vs. Firefox WebExtensions
#245I would love to use Firefox for it's privacy credibility, the Awesome Bar and to prevent monopolization of the Web. Unfortunately 2017 is the year of the CPU usage apocalypse on the Web. Go to this insane Guardian page, scroll down a page, and observe what happens for a minute or two perhaps scrolling down some more: https://www.theguardian.com/news/2017/aug/10/adele-vocal-cor... The numbers keep jumping around a lot…
I tried this: 1. With uBlock Origin running, I don't go above 11% CPU 2. I turned uBlock Origin off: reloading immediately sent my CPU to 80%, and it *stabilised* at a constant 30%.
As I said, it's non-deterministic, so I'm not surprised if you're seeing something different.
I have made it a habit to try resource hungry pages in all my browsers. The variance is huge but the pattern is pretty clear when it comes to CPU usage, especially between Safari and everyone else (excluding Edge and IE as I don't use Windows).
Re: uBlock Origin Maintainer on Chrome vs. Firefox WebExtensions
#246Earlier quoted context omitted.
> If you're the type with a lot of tabs open I'm not and I don't store/restore tabs on close, so that's not the case here. It's just Firefox + Vimperator + uBlock origin with about:blank as home page. I'm on Linux/X11 if that matters.
This is probably a good place to plug the fact that Vimperator is going to die with FF57 [1]. If anyone wants to help with making an alternative, look through that thread. I'm particularly invested in Tridactyl [2] but other people are working on others. [1] https://github.com/vimperator/vimperator-labs/issues/705 [2] https://github.com/cmcaine/tridactyl
I've been using VimFX all along, which is actively maintained and already compatible with multiprocess.
It's a web browser, not an actual text editor. 99% of the time, you're just wanting familiar keyboard commands for navigation. It feels like Vimperator does so many impractical things almost tongue-in-cheek, just to show how cool it is that they're theoretically possible.
Re: uBlock Origin Maintainer on Chrome vs. Firefox WebExtensions
#247Earlier quoted context omitted.
One thing I've been finding lately with firefox is that the Netflix website is abysmally slow. It lags on loading, goes unresponsive a lot etc etc. I've always watched twitch in Chrome (second browser, other screen, works fine) because firefox used to be bad. It's likely that I will start doing the same with Netflix.
If you can watch Netflix with Firefox, sounds like you're on Windows or macOS. The best browsers for Netflix are IE or Safari. Chrome and Firefox support up to 720p only.
You can watch Netflix with Firefox on Linux, but the first time you do, it has to download a plugin, and you have to reload the window.
Re: uBlock Origin Maintainer on Chrome vs. Firefox WebExtensions
#248After being a Chrome user for several years, I've switched back to Firefox for the past two years or so and I'm really, really happy with it. Latest version does multi-processing, e10s is finally here (though it might still get disabled by usage of certain add-ons, I remember I had to force it to stay enabled). On performance, in the past it felt sluggish, but now Firefox is fast and for my usage patterns it uses les…
To me, the best feature of Firefox compared to Chromium (both out of the box, no extensions. not sure if there are extensions that could help) is the address bar. Firefox does a fuzzy search into your browsing history and if you visit the same sites often, the suggestions are quite good. Contrast this with Chrome, where the idea behind address bar user experience seems to be maximizing the number of Google searches d…
In my experience, whenever Firefox takes more than a couple of seconds to start up, I know my Internet connection is acting up. It appears to be doing some sort of blocking network lookup on the startup path, and opens the intial window only after it succeeds or times out.
Re: uBlock Origin Maintainer on Chrome vs. Firefox WebExtensions
#249Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's odd, from SSD a cold firefox start takes a few seconds on my debian testing (using firefox 54 from apt). Maybe you're using a slow HDD?
Nope. It's a lightning fast m.2 SSD. And warm caches don't help either.
Are Vimperator + uBlock origin the only active add-ons? The Ubuntu Modifications one is known to cause slowdowns, for example.
What happens if you try to completely reset the Firefox profile, and bring back the plugins you want?
Re: uBlock Origin Maintainer on Chrome vs. Firefox WebExtensions
#250Earlier quoted context omitted.
I like a lot the "tabs outliner" extension for Chrome. It's especially useful when you work with many tabs open at the same time, and want to preserve sessions, etc. Unfortunately there is now alternative to that in Firefox. Session Manager comes close, but is painful to use. So I'm still looking forward to such extension for Firefox, because honestly I prefer FF to Chrome for most of the things.
Honestly nothing beats Tree Style Tab, have you tried it?
Tab Outliner does all of that and more as far as I can tell. I'm certainly happy using it.