I’d love to switch to safari, only thing holding me back are the chrome dev tools (which I really like). Is there any alternative for this on safari?
It’s time to give Firefox a fresh chance
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Re: It’s time to give Firefox a fresh chance
#172I didn't actually notice that Firefox had become uncool. What is it about Chrome that people like better? They seem basically indistinguishable to me, so I use the one that isn't from Google.
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#1732 things chrome still has above ff for me: - NO bar above the tabs - I CAN double-click to select independent word in url
- Firefox in Windows has no bar above the tabs, and I think its soon becoming default in Linux as well. I believe there a flag you can toggle to force enable it.
- Double-clicking in URL bar selects a single word, at least on Firefox Dev Edition (version 60).
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#174Earlier quoted context omitted.
Firefox has multi-container, it's pretty close.
I like multi-container better than chrome's solution. I can keep sites from seeing cookie from any other site. Or I can create a group of sites that can share login sessions. And all I have to do is click the links and it all happens automatically.
For one project I was working on I made containers for all the different types of roles users could login as, so if I need to check for missing functionality / too much access I just switch a tab to the appropriate role, vs logging out, logging back in, no wait wrong password, log back i-, ok who changed the password? ... eventually logging on and by then forgetting what I was testing for.
I also appreciate Firefox ESR which has allowed me to test some legacy silverlight app which we're still porting over to HTML5 (to make sure we didn't miss anything).
Re: It’s time to give Firefox a fresh chance
#175I switched to Firefox as my primary browser a couple of months ago, and have been happy enough that I haven't looked back. It is significantly more smooth and performant than it was; the work on Quantum cannot be understated, and the minor fiasco with their extensions ecosystem, though painful, I feel was the right move. With that said, a few anecdotes keep jumping out at me: - Pocket integration. Dive into about:con…
> - The default theme has two large "spacer" elements that shrink the address bar towards the center. These might not bother anyone else, but they drove me nuts; fortunately they can be removed with the customization menu.
Every single time I install Firefox on a new OS I remove them. They drive me nuts too!
Re: It’s time to give Firefox a fresh chance
#176Firefox, on occasion, cannot play videos above 4fps until I restart it. After running for awhile, Firefox slows my entire system down to the point there is a 250ms-500ms delay for every key press. Despite all this I keep trying to make FF my primary browser, but wow it is hard. I'm actually using Opera as my day to day, it has hotkeys that are just a little bit better than Chrome's, backspace still does what I'm used…
I also switched to Opera as a default web browser this year, Chrome not feeling nice to use as a daily driver anymore. Almost 10 years isn't a bad innings though. So far so good.
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#177Wow! He actually recommended to use the browser password manager... Yes, I use FF and have since it came. I did try Chrome a couple of times but it was just a resource hog and ugly. With FF I could get it to look as I wanted and the extensions worked better.
So I agree with his decision but not his arguments or recommendations. They are just crap. The best way to protect your passwords is via a password manager that is not in plane text. Like Pass or Keepass. Pass is my fav as it is extremely portable.
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#178I have been using FF as my main browser for years. While most of the world moved to Chrome-I stuck around because Chrome's bookmark sync would rearrange every bookmark in a bookmark folder. This was years ago, but then I started getting concerned about Google's tracking and have stuck with FF since. (I gave Chrome a chance years later-same exact issue.) During this time I kept running into reasons to keep FF besides…
> Chrome's PDF reader works better than FF's open source JS one. Note: while Chrome's PDF reader wasn't open in the beginning, it is now: https://pdfium.googlesource.com/pdfium/
Ah, thank you for that info.
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#179I never gave up on Firefox. I always knew Google Chrome was sending back telemetry data or whatever and never looked back. Also with how many sites are "only working in Chrome" these days I still hold the claim that Chrome is working itself to being the next IE in terms of breaking the web for people using other browsers. I still hold respect for Chrome in other areas though. Firefox was always complained about but h…
I couldn't agree more. In addition, I am one of the (apparently) few who use FF almost exclusively on my mobile devices. No, FF isn't perfect on my phone but it works just the way I need it to 90% of the time. In fact, I've been quite satisfied with the mobile version of FF Nightly.
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Re: It’s time to give Firefox a fresh chance
#180Earlier quoted context omitted.
If `extensions.pocket.enabled` doesn't sync (I don't know if it does by default), consider adding `services.sync.prefs.sync.extensions.pocket.enabled`, then it will synchronize across devices. Bookmark sync is currently getting a complete overhaul to fix the various shortcomings: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1WoM7JEatr_QJ1CrGk2rwoSDy...
With the upcoming death of Xmarks, I've often idly wondered how hard it would be to write a Chrome extension that could use Firefox's bookmark sync facility.
Ha, I have exactly the same thoughts.
Except it could be any 3d party file syncing service i.e. syncthing, dropbox, gdrive etc.
Any cross browser bookmark syncing alternative left? -
Looks like it's either you stick with a single browser brand or come up with your own bookmark syncing.