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I switched to a few weeks ago but it seems really laggy recently whenever I'm running Youtube in the background while on the private mode. I don't trust Chrome at all, and I'd much rather use Firefox, but it's unusable for me.
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.
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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.
But switching? NO. Why? Since currently only Google takes security serious and has the resources to actually do that. I understand and accept that "google knows thing via chrome" but they are not (a significant) part of my threatmodel.
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Should I get out my tinfoil hat or is it more likely that Chrome is just taking advantage of optimizations that other browsers don't have access to or knowledge of.
They optimize for Chrome, since this is where their users mostly are and where they want them to be. No tinfoil hat required.
I tried (again) to switch to FF yesterday when 57 was released, and unfortunately still ran into a known bug that makes it practically unusable for me: FF treats underscores as punctuation that breaks up a word, so given text "foo_bar", if you double click on "foo" or "bar", it doesn't select the entire word. This goes against all conventions of Chrome, other text editors, etc. It seems trivial, but as developers we…
That's possibly one of their strangest edge-cases I've seen for someone to dismiss a product. Or is this a case of HN-level trolling?
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> only to be disappointed and go back to Chrome. Me too. Unfortunately, it seems like Chrome is still wining for me over the new FF. For example, this comments section page takes about 3.5 seconds to load in Chrome and about 7.25 seconds in FF. I run a fair few privacy add-ons in each, so that may not be helping things, but still, a 2x increase in loading for a mostly text comments page is not cool (at least for me).…
Took less than a second to load. (Running Adblock, but that's about it.)