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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 abrowne »

toss1 wrote: post #52
arf wrote: post #41

I did give it a try. I used it like I use Chrome. Many tabs open and keeping them open for a couple of days. I did that a couple of times. It, of course, crashed every single time and for some reason made my 4GHz quad-core i7 with 64Gb memory freeze for 5 minutes where I couldn't even ^d in a terminal.

Interesting, I do the same -- dozens of tabs open in multiple windows, for multiple days, and it hasn't crashed in probably over a year. Different machines, this one is: Intel I-6700-HQ 2.6GHz 4-core/8 logical 16GB RAM...

Same for me, and I even usually use Firefox Nightly with a Core 2 Duo, 4 GB RAM and nouveau graphics forced on in the about:config . . .

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

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Post by savoytruffle »

noobermin wrote: post #32
ProfessorLayton wrote: post #19

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 o…

I don't think that is Firefox's fault vs. Safari being optimized for usage on MacOS machines obviously.

It's a native Mac application. Why shouldn't it be "optimized"?

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

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Post by untog »

nimbius wrote: post #53

1. does it still require me to use pulseaudio to compile it. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1345661 2. does it still send DNS data to third parties for analytics. https://www.ghacks.net/2018/03/20/firefox-dns-over-https-and... 3. Am i still required to build Pocket when I build Firefox? are we still forbidden from removing pocket? 4. Is telemetry still shipped on by default? https://www.theregister.co.u…

At the risk of stating the extremely obvious to the Linux user that likes to build their browser from source: I don't think the advice in the article was intended for you.

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

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Post by 2bitencryption »

nimbius wrote: post #53

1. does it still require me to use pulseaudio to compile it. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1345661 2. does it still send DNS data to third parties for analytics. https://www.ghacks.net/2018/03/20/firefox-dns-over-https-and... 3. Am i still required to build Pocket when I build Firefox? are we still forbidden from removing pocket? 4. Is telemetry still shipped on by default? https://www.theregister.co.u…

how many sites are you able to render, since you must use Netscape Navigator?

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

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Post by jasonlotito »

whalesalad wrote: post #4

I switched cold turkey to Firefox a few months ago. It was fine for a bit but eventually became unbearably slow. I made the switch on both my work MacBook Pro (retina) and my personal MacBook Air. Both had similar issues. That and the fact that it ships with things like Pocket made me jump back to Chrome.

> That and the fact that it ships with things like Pocket made me jump back to Chrome.

Mozilla owns Pocket (Read It Later). It's sort of like me complaining Safari comes with iCloud support by default.

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

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Post by bla2 »

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…

I don't think that's true. You can have a profile per window, the windows live in the same process.

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

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Post by jasonlotito »

tomnipotent wrote: post #60
nimbius wrote: post #53

1. does it still require me to use pulseaudio to compile it. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1345661 2. does it still send DNS data to third parties for analytics. https://www.ghacks.net/2018/03/20/firefox-dns-over-https-and... 3. Am i still required to build Pocket when I build Firefox? are we still forbidden from removing pocket? 4. Is telemetry still shipped on by default? https://www.theregister.co.u…

This sums it up nicely. I refuse to use Firefox until they remove Pocket, it's an absolute tragedy that it was ever included by default and forced onto a user base that never asked for it.

What's your problem with them including a technology they own in their browser?

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

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Post by outworlder »

savoytruffle wrote: post #62
noobermin wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't think that is Firefox's fault vs. Safari being optimized for usage on MacOS machines obviously.

It's a native Mac application. Why shouldn't it be "optimized"?

Because being a native app is not enough. You actually need to do extra work if you want it to be energy efficient.

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

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Post by noncoml »

nimbius wrote: post #53

1. does it still require me to use pulseaudio to compile it. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1345661 2. does it still send DNS data to third parties for analytics. https://www.ghacks.net/2018/03/20/firefox-dns-over-https-and... 3. Am i still required to build Pocket when I build Firefox? are we still forbidden from removing pocket? 4. Is telemetry still shipped on by default? https://www.theregister.co.u…

Completely agree with what you said, but what do you suggest instead?

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

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Post by victords »

stamps wrote: post #59
nimbius wrote: post #53

1. does it still require me to use pulseaudio to compile it. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1345661 2. does it still send DNS data to third parties for analytics. https://www.ghacks.net/2018/03/20/firefox-dns-over-https-and... 3. Am i still required to build Pocket when I build Firefox? are we still forbidden from removing pocket? 4. Is telemetry still shipped on by default? https://www.theregister.co.u…

What browser do you recommend?

OP would probably recommend you to write your own browser.
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