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It’s time to give Firefox another chance

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Re: It’s time to give Firefox another chance

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Post by Groxx »

quesera wrote: post #56
richdougherty wrote: post #11

Just switched to Firefox beta to test this out. Looking good so far! The other thing that I've been waiting for is better multi-profile support. You can get a (pre-release) version of that now by opting into the Containers experiment: https://testpilot.firefox.com/experiments/containers

Firefox has has profiles since well before the first version of Chrome was released. Unfortunately the UI has always been sort of hidden. You can launch with `-P` or `-ProfileManager` to get a profile selection menu. Or nav to `about:profiles` for a slightly more convenient (but less attractive) version. Firefox profiles are great. Better than Chrome profiles, though less convenient, for now. Interested to see how Co…

"great" may be stretching it more than a little. They have indeed worked for a very long time (which is definitely great), but launching multiple firefoxes at once with different profiles is (has been? haven't tried for over a year) an absolute nightmare for anyone not launching it exclusively from the CLI with aliases. I actually made app wrappers just so I could click things instead of having a weird blend of "you can click that icon... but then you'll just get the default profile" + "CLI if you want [profile X]".

Re: It’s time to give Firefox another chance

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Post by charrondev »

homulilly wrote: post #251

The beta seems pretty good, but after noticing some bugs im reminded again of one of the reasons I quit using Firefox in the first place: Tabs look fucked up on MacOS and some Linux themes, a fix exists, but it's been pushed back to version 58 even though 57 is still in beta. If you don't prioritize user experience in a web browser, then what's the point?

Do you have any further details on this? The tabs always looked weird to me but I don't know why.

Re: It’s time to give Firefox another chance

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Post by jest3r1 »

ATsch wrote: post #103
hdhzy wrote: post #51

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Not to mention Firefox for Android that supports extensions (uBlock etc.).

Unfortunately, for me at least, it's not a viable option. Firefox on android still feels significantly more sluggish than chrome. Plus, googles questionable business practice of embedding chrome into many apps, while making opening links very fast, adds another three clicks to someone not using chrome.

Try Firefox Focus.

Re: It’s time to give Firefox another chance

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Post by tomc1985 »

nextos wrote: post #256
agumonkey wrote: post #150

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The amount of work, the extent for how long they've been doing so, all relative to the funding they got.. it's even painful to think about. Chrome shadowed them overnight, had Google infinite wallet and started from scratch. Mozilla became the old slug.. Since then they got Rust off ground, servo yielding good fruits, firefox cool n quiet. Once again kudos.

Firefox beta is very nice. My only (big) regret is that APIs that make Vimperator work are getting phased out. I can't live without Vimperator.

Or VideoDownloadHelper, or DownThemAll! :-(

That said my dev edition self-updated last night and... holy shit, the new Firefox flies!

Re: It’s time to give Firefox another chance

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Post by NikolaeVarius »

StavrosK wrote: post #249
jaipilot747 wrote: post #225

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Firefox for Android Beta currently has the Quantum update, and it's buttery smooth!

I got the beta two days ago and oh my God this thing is super fast. I used to dread opening web pages, now it's my favorite thing! I am extremely impressed with the work they did.

That's interesting. I find Firefox Nightly on Android to be extremely slow compared to Chrome.

Re: It’s time to give Firefox another chance

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Post by johnp_ »

chimeracoder wrote: post #222
kenhwang wrote: post #65

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It's not quite a new profile since the container retains all your configuration and extensions and a profile doesn't. It's more similar to a private browsing session, except things aren't forgotten, and you can have as many as you like. And they're tab level so you can treat them they same way you would a tab.

> It's not quite a new profile since the container retains all your configuration and extensions and a profile doesn't. Other way around. Profiles retain configuration and extensions between sessions.

Profiles: Every configuration change or extension has to be added in every profile to keep in sync manually across different Firefox instances.

Containers: Use the same configuration and extensions across different containers in one running Firefox instance.

Both retain configuration and extensions between traditional browser sessions (start/stop). Containers additionally "retain" configuration and extensions across contextual sessions/identities.

Re: It’s time to give Firefox another chance

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Post by [deleted] »

syshum wrote: post #167
noncoml wrote: post #9

I was very critical of Mozilla in the past about all their "science projects" like Rust. While I appreciate Rust, I thought it was wrong for Mozilla to be wasting resources on it, instead of focusing on Firefox. I was so harsh with them only because I strongly believe that Firefox is my only hope for a free web. But then I tried 57, and I must admit, boy was I wrong. This thing is fast! I haven't stopped recommending…

So you are one of those that "Open Web" == performance only and you look the other way on things like EME, Pocket, and various other things that lower Privacy and betray the very foundation of the "Open Web"

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