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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 fyfy18 »

mherrmann wrote: post #313

Chrome lost me when it started to force-login me to Chrome when signing into Gmail, thus sharing all my website visits with Google. I switched to FF two months ago and haven't looked back. FF is like Linux: less polished, but works, and you are in control. A fair tradeoff for me.

I switched over summer and the only thing I really miss is the translation built into Chrome. S3.Translator seems to be the recommended alternative, but compared to Chrome it's next to useless. I find it very slow, constantly nagging and often it breaks websites. in Chrome the translation 'just works'.

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Post by michaelmrose »

kristerv wrote: post #312
11235813213455 wrote: post #292

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Yeah this is the worst in firefox. I'm desperately trying to stick to firefox out of principle, but Chrome is just sooo much more comfy beacuse of like 3 features. Firefox actually has 2 domain specific search-shortcut features, but both take time to set up and then is not intuitive at all. Chrome just blows it out of the water. Also wtf - if I type "hello" and press enter in the search bar in FF, it puts a "www." in…

Typing a word or words that don't look like a url or file has so far as I can recall always searched the default search engine for the word or query. This so far as I can recall has always been the case. Can you replicate this in a fresh profile to ensure this isn't just something you have set?

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Post by hliyan »

mherrmann wrote: post #313

Chrome lost me when it started to force-login me to Chrome when signing into Gmail, thus sharing all my website visits with Google. I switched to FF two months ago and haven't looked back. FF is like Linux: less polished, but works, and you are in control. A fair tradeoff for me.

This is exactly where the lost me too. I'm moving towards using Facebook and Gmail in their own Firefox containers. But the problem is, I foresee a lot of sites that use "Sign in with Google" deliberately crippling their experience for people who don't expose their Google session...

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Post by javitury »

What an irony. I've been using firefox for 10+ years and now it is faster, uses less resourses and doesn't crash. As a user, this is the browser I have been waiting for.

Yes, dev tools features could be expanded as well as the plugin franework(vimperator!).But these are non-issues for regular users.

Re: Firefox desktop market share now below 9%

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Post by mherrmann »

hliyan wrote: post #323
mherrmann wrote: post #313

Chrome lost me when it started to force-login me to Chrome when signing into Gmail, thus sharing all my website visits with Google. I switched to FF two months ago and haven't looked back. FF is like Linux: less polished, but works, and you are in control. A fair tradeoff for me.

This is exactly where the lost me too. I'm moving towards using Facebook and Gmail in their own Firefox containers. But the problem is, I foresee a lot of sites that use "Sign in with Google" deliberately crippling their experience for people who don't expose their Google session...

I think signing in with anything other than email is a horrible idea. By doing that, you forever tie yourself (and your data) to Google. I never use those options.

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Post by lorenzhs »

dclusin wrote: post #281
throwawaymath wrote: post #184

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah that feature (along with iOS 12 native OS-level password manager integrations) was a major leap forward. I no longer dread enabling 2FA on websites when push/HOTP tokens aren’t supported - at least from a usability perspective. The security of SMS-based 2FA is still poor, though generally better than nothing.

Almost nobody implements the API for password managers. It's either apples password store or bust. I use 1password and frequently have to switch to the app to grab a password. Although, with face ID enabled this is relatively painless.

Firefox lockbox does. It’s still in beta afaik.

Re: Firefox desktop market share now below 9%

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Post by boudin »

bitsnbytes wrote: post #196
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 agree more option other chrome is a positive. Started to use duck duck go browser on mobile and so far so good. Firefox has always been a resource hog and crash prone for me on just about any system. Although I use it primarily for some of its features and prefer it over chrome.

It's been a really long time I experienced any crash from Firefox. Last time I had instabilities, it was due to my profile. Deleting it solved the issues.

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Post by kiwijamo »

Klonoar wrote: post #104
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'd support it if it felt like a first-class citizen on macOS. It's ironic that everyone decries Electron for not being native, then says you should use Firefox when it violates so much about the platform that it's not even funny. A bug about overflow scrolling (the default bouncing when you scroll over in macOS) has been open for years. It doesn't fit in.

My main machines (both personal and work) runs macOS and I find Firefox to fit in fine. Certaintly does what I expect 99.9% of the time. Scrolling for instance seems to work as expected (and on par with Safari which I occassionally use). Can you share more examples?
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