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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 bufferoverflow »

f311a wrote: post #35
noobermin wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Off chance, do you use html5 video?

I do. For me, it looks like Firefox is struggling with rendering when it comes to any kind of animation/effects, e.g videos, images, as well as js powered animations using SVG/canvas. Even simple things make my laptop boil. Maybe I'm wrong about CPU and it's all about integrated Intel GPU.

I'm having similar issues on a fairly modern laptop with i7-7700hq and GTX1050. After a few minutes of watching YouTube, it gets all jerky and not smooth. I'm guessing something is throttling, though video playback isn't taking a high percentage of either the CPU or the GPU. I tried forcing the builtin Intel GPU on firefox.exe, that didn't change anything.

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

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Post by hirundo »

I disagree with Brendan Eich on same-sex marriage. And I'm not neutral or ambivalent on the subject; I wholeheartedly approve of the practice. But I disapprove of the way Eich was treated for his heresy. I think that he is a fine man and a great technologist and Firefox is a poorer product due to his excommunication.

So for me it isn't time to give Firefox another try. It's time to keep using Eich's far more innovative new browser, Brave.

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

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Post by bufferoverflow »

kerng wrote: post #17

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.

Chrome is still king when it comes to fast JS execution and modern technologies. I'm talking about real world use, I know some benchmarks put FF and Edge ahead.

The recent post about real time pose estimation was a pretty example of that - pretty unusable in FF, runs great in Chrome (on Windows at least)

https://storage.googleapis.com/tfjs-models/demos/posenet/cam...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17283525

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

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Post by jiveturkey »

bla2 wrote: post #66
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.

per window. not per tab.

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

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Post by ggm »

I must be an outlier. I find the chrome 'one person per instance' thing works fine, with multiple virtual desktops.

I have colour coded my chrome personalities for me, me-as-lists and me-at-work and I slide desks sideways in OSX to get between them. I never mistake one for the other, I have distinct cache state, distinct password/form completion, and unified plugins within limits.

Not that I dislike FF, but the 'chrome does it worser' meme about how to be multiple google people: Chrome does it different

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

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Post by siddboots »

alf-pogz wrote: post #97

Mozilla as an organization makes me a bit uncomfortable. I still haven't forgotten the entire Brendan Eich fiasco. Who is to say that extremely politically motivated folks at Mozilla may consider it their duty to expose user(s) in a similar way? How can they purport to be a champion of user privacy after what they did to Brendan Eich?

What did they do exactly? I'm reasonably familiar with the story, but wasn't aware of Mozilla breaching his privacy. Do you just mean the act of speaking out against him in a public way?

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

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Post by jploh »

furgooswft13 wrote: post #78

I find it kind of ironic that Mozilla rewrote Netscape Navigator from scratch with the lofty idea of creating an entire cross-platform application development platform, not just a browser. XUL, XULRunner etc. But it never caught on and they abandoned all that to focus on just the browser. Yet now Electron is everywhere... Before its time and abandoned in the nick of it. And no one cares about native GUI's anymore app…

I remember XUL. Not a fan but it's sad it didn't take off. We need an Electron alternative.

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

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Post by vortico »

noncoml wrote: post #69
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?

The vim-like browsers that use a Qt-WebKit or WebKit backend are great! https://www.qutebrowser.org/ https://luakit.github.io/ https://fanglingsu.github.io/vimb/ There are other projects like http://midori-browser.org/ https://www.falkon.org/ https://www.seamonkey-project.org/ https://www.palemoon.org/

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

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Post by torgoguys »

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…

Right, Chrome can't silo things like that between tabs, but can between windows using separate chrome profiles. Not as handy as container tabs but not horrible either.

Agree that you shouldn't try mixing personal and Google apps account in the same session...it always breaks eventually. (Why can't Google get that right?)

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