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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

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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.

Try nightly. Or even FF 55. There's a huge chasm of difference - they put a huge focus on performance improvement the past couple of development cycles.

Re: uBlock Origin Maintainer on Chrome vs. Firefox WebExtensions

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Same for me. I fired up Firefox for the first time in years and it works great. The hardest part to get used to is their super-weird hamburger menu layout.

Pressing Alt brings up the conventional menu bar, at least on Linux.

Plus you can go hamburger menu, customize, (some drop down menu at the bottom), show menu bar. First thing I do when I install FF on a new computer.

Re: uBlock Origin Maintainer on Chrome vs. Firefox WebExtensions

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As far as I can tell, it doesn't look like this - one of my favorite plugins - will survive v57.

See https://github.com/piroor/treestyletab/issues/1224

Thanks. I'd seen that thread months ago; it seems that the situation has improved a bit since then.

As I was searching around, I also came across this:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tree-tabs/

...which looks to have similar functionality, and is already WE compatible.

Re: uBlock Origin Maintainer on Chrome vs. Firefox WebExtensions

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> On performance, in the past it felt sluggish, but now Firefox is fast and for my usage patterns it uses less memory than Chrome. /me remembers how fast FF was compared to IE 'back in the days'.

Well, bear in mind that websites was way simpler to render for a browser back then.

Also keep in mind that Mozilla is researching better rendering methods through the Quantum project. The potential boost will be huge -- CSS styling and compositing will be faster, JS code that interacts with the DOM will be faster, etc.

I'm very excited about Quantum CSS and Quantum DOM landing.

Re: uBlock Origin Maintainer on Chrome vs. Firefox WebExtensions

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After 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…

One thing that helps with Chrome's address bar is typing in a slash when searching for a site in your history. Suppose I visited this URL:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lognormal_distribution

Chrome might or might not suggest it when I start typing "logn...". But if I type "/logn" it's there immediately. They're tokenizing URLs in a stupid way, apparently.

Re: uBlock Origin Maintainer on Chrome vs. Firefox WebExtensions

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That doesn't seem related to the topic unless I'm missing it. Also it has nothing to do with browsers or Chrome vs Firefox

http://go.instartlogic.com/AppShield-Ad-Integrity-Data-Sheet... "Web publishers make simple DNS changes to flow the network domains that carry their HTML through the Instart Logic system. This allows our system to inject a small piece of JavaScript that can detect the presence of ad blockers. When an ad blocker is detected, the JavaScript-based virtualization layer Nanovisor, together with our intelligent cloud-based…

This is basically how viruses get around antivirus. I think the virus/antivirus arms race has been more or less won by viruses, so it looks like this is the end state of the adblock wars.

Re: uBlock Origin Maintainer on Chrome vs. Firefox WebExtensions

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After 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…

Not many people seem to be aware of this, but Firefox Mobile is just as great! You can run full extensions, just like on desktop.

I'm using Firefox on desktop, but Mobile scrolling is just awful even on a flagship smartphone. Just also tried nightly: the same.

Re: uBlock Origin Maintainer on Chrome vs. Firefox WebExtensions

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After 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…

Not many people seem to be aware of this, but Firefox Mobile is just as great! You can run full extensions, just like on desktop.

I use Firefox Mobile as well but to be fair extension-support is flakey. A lot of times I install an extension that doesn't work and nothing indicates whether it does or doesn't. Also the extensions store doesn't indicate whether and extension is mobile friendly or not.

Re: uBlock Origin Maintainer on Chrome vs. Firefox WebExtensions

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My problem is not the looks, whenever I use !g I'm annoyed how bad it looks. It IS the results. Often when something doesn't have a ton of relevant results, DDG gives the wrong results while !g has what I'm looking for.

Are you allow google to store cookies? Maybe its because of personalized search google does?

Oh, I'm pretty sure that's why. Unless encrypted.google.com doesn't use that information? Anyway, I'd love to have some way to personalize my DDG results and tell them what to boost. Alas.

Re: uBlock Origin Maintainer on Chrome vs. Firefox WebExtensions

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Are you allow google to store cookies? Maybe its because of personalized search google does?

Oh, I'm pretty sure that's why. Unless encrypted.google.com doesn't use that information? Anyway, I'd love to have some way to personalize my DDG results and tell them what to boost. Alas.

Either "we doesn't gather your personal data" or personalization. These choices are mutually exclusive.
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