Ask HN: Who's switched from Chrome to Firefox 57? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: Who's switched from Chrome to Firefox 57?

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Post by SimeVidas » Wed, Nov 15, 2017, 9:04 PM UTC

dmlittle wrote: post #5

I really like container tabs (you have to enable them in about:config - privacy.userContext.enabled and privacy.userContext.ui.enabled). It allows me to have multiple AWS accounts open at the same time without having 2 different browsers or one account open in private mode. I have 2 main containers I use: production and staging.

I’m using Container Tabs to work with 3 different Twitter accounts in the same browser window. A killer feature!

Re: Ask HN: Who's switched from Chrome to Firefox 57?

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Post by j45 » Wed, Nov 15, 2017, 9:04 PM UTC

I switched to Firefox Nightly about a month ago and have made it back into Chromium less and less.

Re: Ask HN: Who's switched from Chrome to Firefox 57?

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Post by joejoebob » Wed, Nov 15, 2017, 9:05 PM UTC

I am. Really enjoying it!

Re: Ask HN: Who's switched from Chrome to Firefox 57?

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Post by howoddalien » Wed, Nov 15, 2017, 9:06 PM UTC

jelder wrote: post #20

dmlittle wrote: post #5

I really like container tabs (you have to enable them in about:config - privacy.userContext.enabled and privacy.userContext.ui.enabled). It allows me to have multiple AWS accounts open at the same time without having 2 different browsers or one account open in private mode. I have 2 main containers I use: production and staging.

Chrome has this as a first-class feature, "People." I have one window open for personal, and another for each of the AWS accounts I have access to. Sounds from your description like FF can do this at the tab level?

Yea, firefox has profiles as well. Containers are different and apply your browsing context based on the tab. Super useful, you can also configure sites to open in a certain container.

I do wish I could just pin an entire window to a container, but overall the flexibility is worth it. (I abhor having more than one window open per app at a time.)

Re: Ask HN: Who's switched from Chrome to Firefox 57?

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Post by baggachipz » Wed, Nov 15, 2017, 9:07 PM UTC

derefr wrote: post #25

baggachipz wrote: post #3

I have, temporarily. Some bugs and occasional slowness, coupled with more memory hogging, have me reconsidering.

FF57 still consumes more memory than Chrome ? For the same tabs? Or are you maybe experiencing some https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Risk_compensation — opening more tabs because they mostly "feel" lighter-weight?

I opened the same exact tabs in both FF57 and Chrome (7 each) and sorted by memory usage in Activity Monitor. When adding up the main task and helpers, FF57 used significantly more.

Re: Ask HN: Who's switched from Chrome to Firefox 57?

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Post by bllguo » Wed, Nov 15, 2017, 9:07 PM UTC

dmlittle wrote: post #5

I really like container tabs (you have to enable them in about:config - privacy.userContext.enabled and privacy.userContext.ui.enabled). It allows me to have multiple AWS accounts open at the same time without having 2 different browsers or one account open in private mode. I have 2 main containers I use: production and staging.

How did you define custom containers? I only see the 4 defaults of personal, work, banking, shopping.

Re: Ask HN: Who's switched from Chrome to Firefox 57?

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Post by dmlittle » Wed, Nov 15, 2017, 9:07 PM UTC

jelder wrote: post #20

dmlittle wrote: post #5

I really like container tabs (you have to enable them in about:config - privacy.userContext.enabled and privacy.userContext.ui.enabled). It allows me to have multiple AWS accounts open at the same time without having 2 different browsers or one account open in private mode. I have 2 main containers I use: production and staging.

Chrome has this as a first-class feature, "People." I have one window open for personal, and another for each of the AWS accounts I have access to. Sounds from your description like FF can do this at the tab level?

Yes and it's color coded so you know what container each tab is associated to. By default all tabs are in the default container. You can long-press the + tab icon to select what container the new tab belongs to (I believe this is FF58+ only) or File > New Container Tab > Select Container. Here's a screenshot of two AWS Management console tabs with 2 different containers.

https://i.imgur.com/1gtX1Om.png

Re: Ask HN: Who's switched from Chrome to Firefox 57?

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Post by Cyph0n » Wed, Nov 15, 2017, 9:07 PM UTC

I switched yesterday from Chrome to FF 57 on my MBP 2014. Chrome was faster, but now FF is the clear winner. On Windows, I have been using FF for the past 10 years. Also, Firefox Sync is just amazing.

Re: Ask HN: Who's switched from Chrome to Firefox 57?

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Post by corford » Wed, Nov 15, 2017, 9:08 PM UTC

I never left FF so picked 57 up as a normal update. Love everything about it so far except the new theme which is taking me longer than I'd like to adjust to (not a big fan of the dark blue/cobalt menubar).

Re: Ask HN: Who's switched from Chrome to Firefox 57?

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Post by alanbernstein » Wed, Nov 15, 2017, 9:08 PM UTC

Firefox was my first choice ever since it came out, but I stopped using it when it got unstable a few years ago (even on a brand new macbook!). I've been using nightly for about a month with no crashes, so I'm mostly happy with it. Sometimes it goes crazy with CPU and I have to close a few tabs. I'm still using Chrome as well, for now.