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# admittedly, I don't quite understand what all data it gathers and how. But I know it does because my FB feed is littered by ads based on my chrome browsing. And I feel sooo exploited when that happens.
But yeah, I'm disappointed they're changing the UI to one I dislike, and at the same time removing the ability to customize it. Kind of fuming about that, actually.
But the alternative will be to stay on a browser that won't get any updates, and gets left behind by websites using newer features, and hacked when it doesn't get security updates.
Maybe some enterprising open source developer will find a way to hack the Servo rendering engine into a different browser chrome UI - just as Firefox (then Phoenix) did with Gecko back when the Mozilla suite was dying.
I've been a long time Firefox user until the early days of Google Chrome and I remember doing the switch just for the amazing startup time of the latter and then being acquaintanced to it. Nowadays I use the Opera (beta) flavor of Chromium due to the team effort in providing a slightly (but appreciable) better experience.
Firefox seems to be in period of internal renaissance which I greatly appreciate; something that remind me of the hype around it during it's 3rd major release.
I tried the Nightly release last week and, being on a laptop, the only thing that currently hold me back is it's lack of a battery-friendly mode – like the one I use daily with Opera – and other little details.
I use it mainly because I like Mozilla and dislike Google. You have to put your money where your mouth is.
Container tabs[0] (currently an experiment) will hopefully stick around. That alone is reason enough to use it from my point of view. Paired with Cookie AutoDelete it is the most control I've ever had over my privacy in a browser and it feels good. Fx's new CSS pipeline and the other stuff they're porting from Servo is amazingly cool. Not just tech wise that they can pull this off but the benefits it brings means Fx…
Container tabs are live in the latest nightlies (without addons), so signs are good that it will make it to stable.
1. Firefox 58 has considerable speed improvements 2. Firefox has much better support for tab customization like tree style tabs (not yet supported in 58, I think), multiple tabs, where you can close, move, reload multiple tabs together, copy url of selected tabs in custom format etc. 3. Reliable session recovery. With chrome , if you have more than one window each with multiple tabs, recovery of all windows is not gu…
1. Firefox 58 has considerable speed improvements 2. Firefox has much better support for tab customization like tree style tabs (not yet supported in 58, I think), multiple tabs, where you can close, move, reload multiple tabs together, copy url of selected tabs in custom format etc. 3. Reliable session recovery. With chrome , if you have more than one window each with multiple tabs, recovery of all windows is not gu…
Sorry, why 58? Nightly is on 57 only. What is landing in 58?
1. Firefox 58 has considerable speed improvements 2. Firefox has much better support for tab customization like tree style tabs (not yet supported in 58, I think), multiple tabs, where you can close, move, reload multiple tabs together, copy url of selected tabs in custom format etc. 3. Reliable session recovery. With chrome , if you have more than one window each with multiple tabs, recovery of all windows is not gu…
Thought I was the only one that noticed this
Firefox supports it via extensions, although the author has noted it will stop working in 57.