Firefox is back. It's time to give it a try • Hacker News Board

Re: Firefox is back. It's time to give it a try

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Post by _2d30 » Thu, Jun 21, 2018, 1:42 AM UTC

f311a wrote: post #6

I've switched to Firefox on most of my devices. And there is only one thing which I don't like — high CPU usage compared to chrome. It makes my old MacBook air very noisy because of the fan spinning. When I use chrome it's completely silent.

Especially on YouTube where I believe there’s an issue with Firefox not using the most efficient encoding on the videos.

Re: Firefox is back. It's time to give it a try

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Post by ghaff » Thu, Jun 21, 2018, 1:42 AM UTC

didgeoridoo wrote: post #3

Ironically, the thing that drove me to Firefox was the excellent Account Containers system that I found necessary to manage being logged into multiple Google Apps accounts simultaneously (I have five ). Each tab owns one account — that way, Google Drive files from my work don't randomly refuse to open because I'm also logged into my personal account. (Chrome has no solution for containing accounts across tabs, last I…

Not sure I understand. I routinely have a personal Google Drive tab and a work tab in Chrome. Ditto with email.

Re: Firefox is back. It's time to give it a try

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Post by elvirs » Thu, Jun 21, 2018, 1:43 AM UTC

I would really love if Firefox didnt make me wait until it install an update while I need to quickly test something on an alternative browser. Can I be the one who decides if I want to install the update right now or do whatever I wanted to do in the first place.

Re: Firefox is back. It's time to give it a try

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Post by elvirs » Thu, Jun 21, 2018, 1:43 AM UTC

Also, Print options really suck on Firefox. They should copy from Chrome.

Re: Firefox is back. It's time to give it a try

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Post by tyteen4a03 » Thu, Jun 21, 2018, 1:43 AM UTC

When it stops being a battery hog on Macs, sure.

On Android the performance is comparable to Chrome, but I can never get used to some of their UXes (pressing the X button doesn't clear the address bar, instead closes it). Also no seamless page opening with Google search app (although I suspect they can't do much about this)

Re: Firefox is back. It's time to give it a try

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Post by greggarious » Thu, Jun 21, 2018, 1:44 AM UTC

Some of us never left :)

Re: Firefox is back. It's time to give it a try

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Post by kerng » Thu, Jun 21, 2018, 1:44 AM UTC

I have been mainly using Firefox for the last 3 months on desktop, and for over a year on phone - and it's amazing. Highly recommend it. I even uninstalled Chrome now on my main machine- sometimes you run into what appears "Chrome optimized" sites, like back in IE6 days but its rare.

Re: Firefox is back. It's time to give it a try

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Post by Larrikin » Thu, Jun 21, 2018, 1:45 AM UTC

elvirs wrote: post #13

I would really love if Firefox didnt make me wait until it install an update while I need to quickly test something on an alternative browser. Can I be the one who decides if I want to install the update right now or do whatever I wanted to do in the first place.

Turn off automatic updates. You'll get prompted when you open Firefox instead.

Re: Firefox is back. It's time to give it a try

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Post by ProfessorLayton » Thu, Jun 21, 2018, 1:47 AM UTC

I never really "switched" to any particular browser, I use Safari/Vivaldi/Firefox concurrently, but have noticed how much better Firefox has gotten recently, after years of painful decline (Speed, and resource hogging being my biggest peeves).

The only major thing I wish it did better is if it conserved battery power as well as Safari does. If I want to maximize my laptop's battery life I don't really have a choice other than Safari on my MBP.

Re: Firefox is back. It's time to give it a try

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Post by kranner » Thu, Jun 21, 2018, 1:47 AM UTC

Firefox also seems to have better support for WebVR than Chrome, at least on Windows. As a very rough measure, half of the A-frame official demos don't render for me on Chrome, but all of them render on Firefox. They're also choppy on Chrome compared to Firefox.