I use it by default, on my linux workstation and mbp. On my linux workstation, the browser needs periodic restarts as it gets laggy. Chrome does not need this, but I've stopped trusting google and so am removing as much google as practical. The firefox android app is pretty good, too, except there's no pull to refresh which is pretty annoying.
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
#412Earlier quoted context omitted.
Tridactyl is quickly approaching parity with pentadactyl
Especially after installing the native message. Want a bind to open something in mpv/youtube-dl `";v": "hint -W exclaim_quiet mpv"` Want to open a text field in gvim? Hit `ctl+i` Want to remove the extra chrome: run `:guiset gui none` I stuck on the ESR of firefox for a long time because I wasn't willing to give up vimperator. Its not the same, but its pretty close. There are 2 main pain points, which I don't know it…
> hint -W exclaim_quiet mpv
You know how mathematicians get excited by exp(-i*pi)+1=0? This is like that but for all of the things I'm embarrassed about in Tridactyl:
- our documentation is not great, particularly of current configuration/possible configurations, hence why the GP didn't know about it
- hints don't support pipes - obviously this should be `hint | ! mpv`
- hints don't support pipes because of a bad architectural decision: we have most stuff living in a background script, when really we should probably have most stuff run on the web page where all the objects live, so that passing them around is easier
- we don't have an argument parser, so silent versions of commands have to be separate functions
...but I'm very glad you like it!
Regarding your pain points:
1. Tridactyl actually works really soon after the page starts loading, but only for commands that don't add UI. Personally I use quickmarks to escape from slow loading pages. Otherwise, this will probably never be fixed.
2. This isn't actually true. Tridactyl does override page binds. The reason you think GitHub is stealing a Tridactyl bind is because GitHub steals `/`, but Tridactyl doesn't bind anything to `/` - that's a default Firefox bind! (And whoever decided it would be a great idea to use that in GitHub should probably test their code in more browsers).
Re: Firefox is back. It's time to give it a try
#413Earlier quoted context omitted.
Ghostery also had an incident [1] last month where they exposed e-mail addresses of some users, which I guess adds further doubt to their reliability. [1]: https://www.ghostery.com/blog/ghostery-news/ghostery-email-i...
wait, why do they need users' emails?
If you want, you can create an account to ‘sync your ghostery settings’. The username of the account is your email address.
The exposure happened because they sent a mail with a lot of people in the CC: field. Amateurish but it happens. The irony is that the mail was to inform you of the privacy changes due to GDPR.
Re: Firefox is back. It's time to give it a try
#414I just ran both of the speed test benchmarks [1][2] mentioned in the article, plus two other tests [3][4]. | Firefox | Safari | Chrome ----------------|----------------|-----------------|----------------- Speedometer 2.0 | 83.0 ±0.91 | 92.1 ±2.8 | 75.7 ±3.4 JetStream | 219.40 ±8.5563 | 294.79 ±11.138 | 201.81 ±15.171 Motion Mark | 203.71 ±5.41% | 525.77 ±6.56% | 388.85 ±4.79 ARES-6 | 54.06 ±0.95ms | 16.85 ±1.19ms | 2…
Firefox’s biggest problem is rapacious battery draining. Unplug your charger and Safari feels like a dainty butterfly in a soft summer breeze, while Firefox thrashes around like a drunken Godzilla in mid-90s Tokyo. The energy usage tab on the activity monitor consistently shows Firefox at a ~40 “score” (whatever that unit is), and Safari more around 4. Anecdotally, the difference in battery time is real. This is the…
> like a drunken Godzilla in mid-90s Tokyo.
You know you're old when you hear people making references to Godzilla in the 90s :-)
Re: Firefox is back. It's time to give it a try
#415Earlier quoted context omitted.
Google's account management is infuriating! First, it almost never remembers what account you used with what service. If I do some Google Cloud stuff under my work account, I don't want Google Maps using my work account, or vice versa. The list of accounts in the upper right corner, and what's signed in/out, seems completely random and broken. The second problem is that Google's various apps are wildly inconsistent i…
The average user has only one account. You are lucky that you even have the option of switching accounts.
Luckily for us, the developers at google are precisely the kind of people to have several accounts.
Re: Firefox is back. It's time to give it a try
#416Firefox never left... it was always the best the thing is just that the benchmarked and test and comparison to chrome speed is biased... you see Firefox is much faster using thousands (and even fucking 200 tabs the must i'v used...) open tabs and run in a smooth way and fast and...
unlike what people think Firefox is much faster and has much better maintenance being open source and...
Firefox holders much better over time
and the um ui and of course ux in much better if you actually try and use Firefox with/vs/... chrome over time you will find Firefox to be better...
the thing is just that Firefox is better for the power user... not the average stupid user who known how to get to google....
(My English is not my native language/ the best plz excuse my grammar and...)
Re: Firefox is back. It's time to give it a try
#417I switched from Chrome to Firefox a few months ago and I'm very happy with it.
Day to day, the biggest difference I notice is that my adblocker extension works on Android, no more "[vibrate] omg ur phone haz been hax0red download our stuffz".
Extensions:
uBlock Origin - great ad blocker, works on Android.
DuckDuckGo Privacy Essentials - includes privacy tracker list, https everywhere, and visible privacy rating
Settings:
First Party Isolation On - IMO this is a top feature and should be on by default.
Tracking Protection On (with Strict Block List).
I also took the opportunity to change my search engine from Google to DuckDuckGo, which has been mostly fine. It's a bit more work to find something on Google Maps, but that's understandable.
Re: Firefox is back. It's time to give it a try
#418I haven't seen anyone mention this, but Firefox is my "daily driver" for almost all browsing, and is also locked down with uMatrix, uBlock Origin, DecentralEyes and Ghostery (though I could probably drop Ghostery without missing it). Chrome has uBlock Origin and a few other things but interferes with pages less. I keep a set of pages for some specific web apps (e.g. GMail, Google Calendar, task management, etc.) open…
I recommend removing Ghostery. They sell aggregated data or something.
EFF makes an extension called privacy badger. It learns which websites are tracking you automatically. and blocks them or their cookies.
Re: Firefox is back. It's time to give it a try
#419Is there an easy way to export all my stuff from chrome (logins, bookmarks etc) and import it in firefox?
Re: Firefox is back. It's time to give it a try
#420Earlier quoted context omitted.
Was it added recently?
It's been there at least 6 months already. I think I started using it around the time it was added. According to my password safe, I put the sync name/password in there on 1st of December last year. EDIT: I want to add that I run the Snapshot versions of Vivaldi (currently 1.16.1211.3), and it could be that the Sync was introduced only in a Snapshot in December. So I have no idea if the sync can be found in the Stabl…
is the snapshot version usable? I might give it another try then :)