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Ciao, Chrome: Firefox Quantum Is the Browser Built for 2017

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Re: Ciao, Chrome: Firefox Quantum Is the Browser Built for 2017

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Post by hadrien01 »

scotu wrote: post #62
lol768 wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As someone who's not really used Chrome aside from browser testing (which used to involve a lot of cursing because flexbox min sizing was broken), can you explain what Chrome profiles offer over e.g. container tabs? Are you using them as separate cookie jars, to install different extensions or something else?

they allow different sets of extensions (and cookie jar and so on) and they are basically segregated by window (no tabs with different profile in the same window). In the end they are different from containers in the general purpose (they are geared towards having a multi user experience more than firefox's multi identity/privacy) but chrome's take is much less frustrating to manage in my experience because you can't…

What you're looking for is called Firefox profiles. Just launch firefox -P.

Re: Ciao, Chrome: Firefox Quantum Is the Browser Built for 2017

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Post by TAForObvReasons »

spystath wrote: post #18
zerocrates wrote: post #2

> I can't use the Conde Nast CMS in anything other than Chrome, so I can't switch completely. Highlight of the article tucked in at the end there.

You'd think that a technology-oriented magazine like wired would at least try to aim for cross-browser compatibility in their infrastructure. But why bother, make your CMS Chrome-only a policy and free yourself of extra testing. And it's not only wired. I've come across a lot of internal sites and intranets that are poorly tested on anything but Chrome. I know, it's not exactly the same thing as the old IE/ActiveX bu…

If Firefox had a larger market share, it would be easy to make the argument for cross-browser compatibility. But when Firefox is not even 12% of Chrome's usage globally http://gs.statcounter.com/ and likely much less for your customers it's difficult to appeal to ideals

Re: Ciao, Chrome: Firefox Quantum Is the Browser Built for 2017

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Post by lol768 »

scotu wrote: post #62
lol768 wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As someone who's not really used Chrome aside from browser testing (which used to involve a lot of cursing because flexbox min sizing was broken), can you explain what Chrome profiles offer over e.g. container tabs? Are you using them as separate cookie jars, to install different extensions or something else?

they allow different sets of extensions (and cookie jar and so on) and they are basically segregated by window (no tabs with different profile in the same window). In the end they are different from containers in the general purpose (they are geared towards having a multi user experience more than firefox's multi identity/privacy) but chrome's take is much less frustrating to manage in my experience because you can't…

> That said I switched to firefox and this (and lack of U2F 2nd factor auth) is the only pain point so far

You should be able to flip "security.webauth.u2f" depending on your release channel. If not available yet, I think it will be soon in any case.

Re: Ciao, Chrome: Firefox Quantum Is the Browser Built for 2017

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Post by eugeneionesco »

catshirt wrote: post #8
kevinh wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Oh, that's great news. Blocking fake news sources would get me to try to switch some relatives back over to Firefox.

in addition to the closet racists, the last election seems to be outing the closet fascists.

Ohh, people at Mozilla have always been pretty much openly fascists.

Just look at the Eich story.

Re: Ciao, Chrome: Firefox Quantum Is the Browser Built for 2017

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Post by krrrh »

tony101 wrote: post #9
ocodia wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Plenty of great email, contacts and calendar services out there, you just need to pay for them. I went with FastMail and it’s been absolutely painless.

Any recommendations for a Google Drive replacement?

Dropbox/boxcryptor + MS Office. It’s of course necessary to use google drive for collaborative editing from time to time because it is so ubiquitous, but excel is still miles ahead of google sheets in terms of usability. Pages and Numbers are also pretty good for light use on the Mac and have free web versions for collaboration. The Dropbox desktop client is so much better than Drive in terms of CPU usage and straightforward sharing.

Re: Ciao, Chrome: Firefox Quantum Is the Browser Built for 2017

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Post by randomString1 »

schemathings wrote: post #21

I'm a pretty heavy user of Chrome profiles .. definitely doesn't feel as well thought out in Firefox.

I agree. Here's my setup for standalone/isolated profiles if it's any help:

    "firefox.exe" -no-remote -fullscreen -P "spotify-profile" -url "https://open.spotify.com"
and user_pref("taskbar.grouping.useprofile", true) so that I get separate icons in my taskbar for each profile

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Command_Lin...

Re: Ciao, Chrome: Firefox Quantum Is the Browser Built for 2017

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Post by kentiko »

dheera wrote: post #28

I wish they had some better UX designers. Hit the download button and I get a .bz2 file with no install scripts whatsoever. $ tar jxvf firefox-57.0.tar.bz2 $ cd firefox $ mkdir /usr/local/firefox mkdir: cannot create directory '/usr/local/firefox': Permission denied $ sudo su Password: # mkdir /usr/local/firefox # cp -rv * /usr/local/firefox/ ... # ln -s /usr/local/firefox/firefox /usr/bin/firefox ln: failed to creat…

Just add a PPA :

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-mozilla-daily/ppa

sudo apt update

sudo apt install firefox

sudo apt install firefox-locale-[your language]

Re: Ciao, Chrome: Firefox Quantum Is the Browser Built for 2017

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Post by pault »

knodi wrote: post #34
rgrieselhuber wrote: post #3

After years of being a Chrome user, I've been trying to work myself off of Google's infrastructure as much as possible. Firefox is great, but I was very disappointed to learn that they are partnering with political activists to block sites that they deem to be "fake news." Edit: makeee below posted a good source describing what Mozilla is currently doing, which appears to be limited to "researching" the problem of fa…

That's great new unless your party is the one thats generating most of the fake news, A.K.A GOP/Trump.

I personally don't think partisan propaganda is the big problem. The problem is the content farms that will write completely fabricated news articles designed to outrage/reinforce certain political views for eyeballs. The former is a problem to but it would be more difficult to pass off as factual in an environment without the latter. Also, there is plenty of the latter targeting left wing voters. I see it all the time on some of my less discerning friends' facebook feeds.
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