I just switched. Long time chome user aswell. The new FF has adopted the same design as Chrome and that is what brought me over. I think Chrome will lose some market share soon. I am actually a loyal person but Google started abusing its power to dictate how developers should write code. Aswell as putting unecessary constraints on things. Pissed me off
Ask HN: Who's switched from Chrome to Firefox 57?
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Re: Ask HN: Who's switched from Chrome to Firefox 57?
#122Been using SeaMonkey since 2009. Never switched to anything else, and have no intentions to do so.
Re: Ask HN: Who's switched from Chrome to Firefox 57?
#123I 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).
and there are a TON of themes available for FF here: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/themes/
Re: Ask HN: Who's switched from Chrome to Firefox 57?
#124I 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).
You know there's a light theme you can switch to in Customize mode, right?
I do now :) Thanks.
Re: Ask HN: Who's switched from Chrome to Firefox 57?
#125I tried to yesterday. Gave up after two minutes when I did not see any performance change. I have a recent machine where Chrome is already pretty fast, I am not sure in which conditions it slows down, but it looks like they don't apply to me. Also, I would need a plugin in order to allow me to access my chrome tab history in Firefox. That way I would keep the same multi device experience while switching to FF on desk…
You should be able to import your history from chrome, and then use firefox sync. Or am I misunderstanding what you're looking for?
I mean being able to :
- use chrome on Android (with chrome tabs and autofill it is a pretty nice experience)
- firefox on the desktop
And from any of these two, access a common list of opened tabs on all my devices. Actually, since Chrome on Android does not support extensions, no way to do this both ways, bummer.
Re: Ask HN: Who's switched from Chrome to Firefox 57?
#126I just tried to switch again. Felt slower than chrome for the sites I use and my computer fans were spinning faster.
Re: Ask HN: Who's switched from Chrome to Firefox 57?
#127Yes, for 3 words :
Tree, Style, Tab.
Re: Ask HN: Who's switched from Chrome to Firefox 57?
#128Was considering switching, but didn't see a way to select multiple tabs at once to drag into a new window like you can in Chrome.
With this add-on you can select multiple tabs. Since before chrome existed.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/multiple-tab-...
Re: Ask HN: Who's switched from Chrome to Firefox 57?
#129I have mainly because I am trying to use less Google stuff.
Re: Ask HN: Who's switched from Chrome to Firefox 57?
#130Can any Firefox pro here help me with the bookmark manager of FF? I can assign keywords to bookmarks (shortcuts), and I like that a lot. So if I assign the keyword `hn` to `https://news.ycombinator.com` I just need to enter `hn` in the URL bar.
But assigning a keyword to a bookmark is too many clicks away: I need to open the bookmarks manager (`show all bookmarks`), select a bookmark, look at the bookmark properties in the bottom, expand two more fields: keyword and description.
Now is there a shorter way to get this? Or an add on that works with FF 57?
Also: Is there a way to filter all bookmarks with keywords assigned to them? This question has been asked in [1] several years ago, and back then it was possible to add a `keyword` column to the existing columns in `manage bookmarks`.
[1] https://superuser.com/questions/479059/in-firefox-how-can-fi...
Edit: Added an explanation for the `keyword` feature.