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It shows just how much better Chrome is on every other aspect.
There are really very few things Chrome is better at than Firefox these days.
Isn't one of these debugging?
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#172Another confirmation that engineers and product developers are no longer in control at Google. Engineering and product first is how Google won the game initially, very easy to forget that when the money rolls in massively and the power structures move away from those driving forces. Microsoft already went through this engineering/product growth to bizdev/marketing control to stagnation and is already in the return to…
That feels like whitewashing part of the blame that applies to engineers and product developers. We don't get to say "oh it's those pesky money people, how dare they", while drawing a salary from the same pockets.
It's not a simple blame game. Whomever controls the product definition rules the roost.
E.g. good luck trying to be a developer at Microsoft 10 years ago in Balmer's 'embrace, extend, extinguish' model
That is to say, it's organisational dna that dictates who defines the product. Once the 'specs' have been written, hands are tied.
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#173Are they trying to promote Firefox or something? Chrome seems to be trying quite hard to annoy people enough to actually uninstall it.
I switched to FireFox yesterday with zero issues and works like a charm (including 1Password and uBlock Origin integration).
Their mobile app also has support for extensions such as uBlock Origin, which is lovely.
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#174Just got the update at work, and miraculously my uBlock adblocking extension was removed and DuckDuckGo as the default search engine replaced with Google. Looks like all my customizations were replaced by defaults. Now I'm wondering whether it was our IT's fault or due to Google actions.
This can happen if somehow sync got enabled when you signed in. Sync kicked in, noticed a mismatch between your current setup and the one you had set up many years ago while testing the “sign into chrome” process and set your setting to the one in the cloud. It’s caught me out a couple of times too.
Sync is disabled by Corporate IT by default. Not suggesting any malevolence, just wanted to check whether anyone else experienced a similar suspicious event as well.
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Worked for me. Switched to FF because I just can't trust Chrome anymore. FF feels like a breath of fresh air.
Can I import my Chrome passwords into FF?
I really recommend switching to a password manager - it's also easier to access the passwords from other devices. For example I can use the same passwords on Firefox desktop and on Safari - iPhone (including auto-fill on iOS 12). I have good experience with 1Password (subscription paid).
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Can't speak for ux-app but most people on HN are on macs, also a lot of people on linux.
Do you have any data to back this claim up? I would be surprised if the majority of visitors to HN were using mac.
No direct data. But that's the impression I have gotten over the years. I've seen a ton of posts at the frontpage that talk about moving away from Apple for whatever reason, which are always heated debates. I've never seen any post of people jumping from Windows to mac or linux (I believe that's not a situation a lot of people on HN are in).
it might be my filter bubble, but if I google "hacker news mac vs windows" the only results I get are posts where people are moving away from Mac to something else[1].
[1]: https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/969743/46010063-fa... (that's just the top of the page, but the whole first page is like that).
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#178I'm counting the seconds to the google press release or blog post that says it was confusing for users that they were suddenly signed out of gmail after they deleted all cookies.
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#179Yesterday I started moving to FastMail, today switched to Firefox, what tomorrow will bring? Btw, can someone recommend a good alternative to Google Maps API?
I switched to FF ~1 year ago because I found the performance to be better. But Google's trend is making me consider switching back to an iPhone...
I'm in the same boat. Just switched away from Gmail and Chrome. Love my Pixel 2 XL for its astonishing camera, but very seriously considering a switch to the iPhone.
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I switched to FireFox yesterday with zero issues and works like a charm (including 1Password and uBlock Origin integration).
Their mobile app also has support for extensions such as uBlock Origin, which is lovely.
I went with Safari browser on iPhone + 1Blocker X(one time payment of $5?).