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And prior to that you could run multiple Firefox instances with different profiles. Not super hard.
> you could run multiple Firefox instances with different profiles But not at the same time, which is a showstopper to me (still using Firefox Nightly as main browser).
I've been using Firefox this way for over a year, 2 instances open right now.
Serious question, is this too little too late? Firefox has taken a massive nosedive in the last few years, in the UK at least. My two big clients have them on less than 2% share. Just checked one, 5 years ago they had 9.55% share, today it's 1.8%. Even taking into account the growth of mobile, that's dire.
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Very true. Chrome can never handle my 150+ tabs per window that Firefox can.
What do you do with 150 tabs? When I have 20 open I already start to get confused about where stuff is...
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So far, Chrome has better sandboxing support on most platforms (especially Linux), though Chrome's catching up quickly. I'm generally optimistic about Rust code having fewer exploitable defects, although it's a reasonable argument to suggest that the previous C++ parts had a lot more public scrutiny. Also, for me personally: I use a lot of different profiles and using multiple Firefox profiles simultaneously is a mes…
Is https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multi-account... really broken? That was a test pilot experiment till two month ago, it would be very bad (and a bit ridiculous) if that addon were already broken.
Some might say this is not much of an issue as most modern CPUs can handle 1080p, but actually pre-Ryzen AMD CPUs are too slow and power saving Intel CPUs Laptops are too slow too. So the only excuse might be, that nobody uses that open source OS, but especially from Mozilla I would not expect such an attitude towards open source software.
The whole story reminds me of something a project manager, who worked at the Google homepage, once said.
They worked their asses off to get the page smaller and smaller so the UX was unbeatable. Then, after they got enough users, they focused on different things, and more and more stuff was included.
Somehow Firefox went the same way, right?
First they created it so it would be small, fast and modular, then it got bloated to the max and now they set it on a diet again.
Don't get me wrong, I prefer Mozilla to Google, and I like that they even explored experimental stuff like Rust and Servo to get on the right track again.
But for how long?
I look at the thing most of the day, looks are important just as much as speed.
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What do you do with 150 tabs? When I have 20 open I already start to get confused about where stuff is...
With Tree Style Tabs plus the Awesome bar it is not a problem to handle and it's easy to get up to this number over the day.
The "bumpier path" is that they removed XUL-based/legacy addons, only chrome-like addons (aka WebExtensions) are now supported on FF57. Personally i still have some extensions that are marked as Legacy, mainly for web development so m going be slightly affected with this release, i hope the performance gains are worth it.
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What do you do with 150 tabs? When I have 20 open I already start to get confused about where stuff is...
With Tree Style Tabs plus the Awesome bar it is not a problem to handle and it's easy to get up to this number over the day.