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

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

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Post by SparkyMcUnicorn »

ghaff wrote: post #12
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.

Is this a Google accounts feature or a browser feature? I switched to FF for Container Tabs, and use it for much more than Google accounts.

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

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Post by aeontech »

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.

Interestingly, for me Chrome is the browser that causes my machine to sound like a helicopter on take off (though maybe my usage is atypical). Safari still has the best power efficiency on the macOS, but between Firefox and Chrome anecdotally it seems like a toss up.

Would be curious to see some actual benchmarks comparing the latest browsers, does anyone do those on a regular basis? A quick google search didn't turn up anything more recent than last december: http://themainframe.ca/comparing-firefox-chrome-and-safari-b...

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

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Post by noobermin »

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.

Off chance, do you use html5 video?

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

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Post by chiefalchemist »

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…

What does that mean in terms of resources? Is 2 FF tabs that much less taxing than 2 Chrome instances?

fwiw, I use multiple Chromes, each with its own project / client, own password manager, etc. I don't think I could maintain the silos I do with FF. I wish I could sack Google (Chrome) but I can't, afaik.

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

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Post by toomuchtodo »

ghaff wrote: post #12
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.

There are occasions where Google’s native multi account management falls flat.

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

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Post by ktosobcy »

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…

Supposedly you can be logged-in to multiple Google accounts but… it's very broken most of the time and works only for basic gmail browsing sadly.

And containers in firefox are simply amazing! I use it very often to access "admin accounts" on the occasion without the hurdle to use private browsing.

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