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Firefox desktop market share now below 9%

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Re: Firefox desktop market share now below 9%

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Post by PurpleRamen »

bjz_ wrote: post #268
Puer wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There are a few niche plugins I use for specific sites to enhance usability that I definitely don't expect to be ported to Firefox, but even the ones that are take an understandable backseat in terms of developer priority. For example, for more than 10 years I've been using Chrome extensions that allow you to hover over image links to view them without clicking. There are dozens of these extensions in almost any brow…

You can use most WebExtensions from Chrome with Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/chrome-store-...

"This add-on has been discontinued"

It's kinda strange how bad mozilla is in doing the obvious good. Building in a direct support for chrome-store should be a priority. Solutions like this addon have such a bad experience..

Re: Firefox desktop market share now below 9%

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Post by 11235813213455 »

eksemplar wrote: post #270
bjz_ wrote: post #9

Been really enjoying Firefox, especially after Quantum. More devs should support and use it, lest we be beholden to Chrome for the rest of time.

I use Firefox for development, but I use safari (privately) and edge (professionally) for browsing, and see no real advantages to using either Firefox or Chrome for that. I think modern Firefox is a much better browser than Chrome though, but Mozilla certainly lost the PR war and to no fault but their own, because Firefox sure sucked for a long while.

What I like in chrome is search shortcuts, example I start typing "thes" then press TAB, then I'm brought directly to https://www.thesaurus.com/browse/hello (possibly with little configuration). I don't think Firefox has similar things, last time I checked we have to use bookmarks or something

Re: Firefox desktop market share now below 9%

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Post by kalleboo »

morpheuskafka wrote: post #227
dbot wrote: post #180

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Safari's autosuggest of the numeric code from 2FA text messages is outstanding. I don't hear anyone talk about this feature, but I could never live without it. I use 2FA for every website possible and this makes it easy.

I thought that was a keyboard thing not a Safari thing?

If you have iCloud SMS enabled, then it works on your Mac as well, not just on your phone

Re: Firefox desktop market share now below 9%

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Post by jabl »

jeswin wrote: post #23

I have switched to Firefox on mobile as well. There are some occasional hiccups (rare), but the speedup and battery life you gain from ad-blocking makes it totally worth it. For those who are evaluating, please install AdBlock before you take a call - and do try it for a few days.

I'm also using firefox, on both mobile and desktop. With ublock origin, decentraleyes, privacy badger, and https everywhere add-ons.

Re: Firefox desktop market share now below 9%

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Post by mnl »

There are deprecated extensions that can't be ported to Quantum and were actually useful to many users. And then Quantum is a memory hog, jumping from ESR 52.9 to the current version it needs a couple GB more for my workflow. It's faster and looks nice, but my computers are powerful enough to make that pretty much irrelevant.

For this small speed gain and unless I switch to Waterfox or some other community effort that tries somewhat hopelessly to keep alive what many users want, I have to buy more memory and stop using FireFTP and Session Manager. I just needed Firefox, not a Chrome competitor.

Re: Firefox desktop market share now below 9%

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Post by lisper »

11235813213455 wrote: post #292
eksemplar wrote: post #270

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I use Firefox for development, but I use safari (privately) and edge (professionally) for browsing, and see no real advantages to using either Firefox or Chrome for that. I think modern Firefox is a much better browser than Chrome though, but Mozilla certainly lost the PR war and to no fault but their own, because Firefox sure sucked for a long while.

What I like in chrome is search shortcuts, example I start typing "thes" then press TAB, then I'm brought directly to https://www.thesaurus.com/browse/hello (possibly with little configuration). I don't think Firefox has similar things, last time I checked we have to use bookmarks or something

Seriously? You would sell your soul to the devil to save typing four extra characters?

Re: Firefox desktop market share now below 9%

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Post by vthriller »

pmoriarty wrote: post #240
mkl wrote: post #101

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Session Buddy and The Great Suspender. I have ~800 tabs open in Chrome right now on this PC. I haven't used Tree Style Tab, but Chrome's tab-shrinking is actually better for lots of tabs (up to a point) than Firefox's tab-scrolling. I have yet to try tab suspension extensions in Firefox, so there may be a workflow that works for me there (Chrome is not ideal).

I am envious, Firefox 60.3.0 performs like a snail for me on Linux with just 20 tabs.

My experience is exactly the opposite. Each time I'm past 200 tabs or something (i.e. all the time), Chrome's UI starts occasionally lagging and glitching, and I'm not even talking about memory usage (overall or even just parent process alone) and how it's affecting the operating system. Even with pre-Quantum Firefox I was always pushing limits much, much further.

However I'm avoiding media- and script-heavy websites as much as possible, and block a couple of ad networks solely because of the stress that rich media ads (videos flying all over iframes and whatnot) causes for the hardware I'm running the browser on. (I don't mind ads if they don't take 8 CPU cores to render, but they seem to be disappearing from the internet.)

Re: Firefox desktop market share now below 9%

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Post by dymk »

craftyguy wrote: post #43
Puer wrote: post #10

Just my personal $0.02: 1. The biggest thing keeping me tied to Chrome over any other browser is the extension support. Extensions are second class citizens in any other browser. This is partly because other browsers keep overhauling their systems and deprecating old software which discourages extension developers, and mainly because (as an extension developer) why would you code for browser X when you can get more u…

> 1. The biggest thing keeping me tied to Chrome over any other browser is the extension support. Extensions are second class citizens in any other browser. You say this, but on mobile, the only major browser that supports extensions is Firefox. Not Chrome. Not Safari.

The only thing I care about w.r.t mobile extensions is an adblocker, and the Safari iOS content blocking API works wonderfully for that.

Wipr is the one I use, and I basically never see ads anymore on iOS: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/wipr/id1030595027?mt=8

Re: Firefox desktop market share now below 9%

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Post by d4l3k »

11235813213455 wrote: post #292
eksemplar wrote: post #270

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I use Firefox for development, but I use safari (privately) and edge (professionally) for browsing, and see no real advantages to using either Firefox or Chrome for that. I think modern Firefox is a much better browser than Chrome though, but Mozilla certainly lost the PR war and to no fault but their own, because Firefox sure sucked for a long while.

What I like in chrome is search shortcuts, example I start typing "thes" then press TAB, then I'm brought directly to https://www.thesaurus.com/browse/hello (possibly with little configuration). I don't think Firefox has similar things, last time I checked we have to use bookmarks or something

Firefox has almost the exact same thing. https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-search-from-address...

Re: Firefox desktop market share now below 9%

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Post by Dunedan »

11235813213455 wrote: post #292
eksemplar wrote: post #270

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I use Firefox for development, but I use safari (privately) and edge (professionally) for browsing, and see no real advantages to using either Firefox or Chrome for that. I think modern Firefox is a much better browser than Chrome though, but Mozilla certainly lost the PR war and to no fault but their own, because Firefox sure sucked for a long while.

What I like in chrome is search shortcuts, example I start typing "thes" then press TAB, then I'm brought directly to https://www.thesaurus.com/browse/hello (possibly with little configuration). I don't think Firefox has similar things, last time I checked we have to use bookmarks or something

In Firefox you can add a bookmark and set a keyword for that bookmark. If the URL of the bookmark contains "%s", it'll get replaced by everything you type in the URL bar after the keyword. For example I have a bookmark for Wikipedia with the keyword "wp". So when I type "wp Y Combinator" I end up on the Wikipedia page about Y Combinator.

I really enjoy this feature and even catch myself regularly trying to use it on other computers, which obviously don't have such keywords defined.

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