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Goodbye, EdgeHTML

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Re: Goodbye, EdgeHTML

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Post by baby »

Someone1234 wrote: post #76
davidp wrote: post #19

Seriously, switch to Firefox. It's good again, and prioritizes privacy.[0] After Chrome's forced-sign-in debacle [1] I switched away from Chrome on all my platforms (Windows, Linux, Android) and haven't missed a thing. [0]: https://hacks.mozilla.org/2018/11/firefox-sync-privacy/ [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18055161

The best thing about Firefox is Mozilla's Multi-Account Container tabs[0]. Essentially it allows you to put different tabs into different light-weight profiles, with their own session, cookies, and state. That means if you want to log into Facebook but don't want Facebook following you online, just give Facebook its own container. Mozilla has anti-tracking already baked in, but Multi-Account Containers are a whole ot…

No, the best thing about Firefox is Tree Style Tabs https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tree-style-ta...

Re: Goodbye, EdgeHTML

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Post by baby »

adontz wrote: post #116
tomphoolery wrote: post #72

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Firefox is a way better experience than Chrome these days. Google, you constantly add new features that nobody wants, and furthermore, make it WAY more difficult for those of us who care about privacy to turn your tracking BS off. Google Chrome can die in a fire as far as I'm concerned.

Firefox added Pocket, and kind of nobody wanted it. So it happens in FF too.

Pocket by default is one of the best feature of Firefox, for everyone. Try to use it for week.

Re: Goodbye, EdgeHTML

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Post by quickthrower2 »

chrisseaton wrote: post #254
quickthrower2 wrote: post #159

I now use FF at home for one simple reason. Two people at home using two different Google accounts and need to switch between them. In Chrome it decides one of those is the 'logged in account' and the name shows in the browser bar. It is then the default every time you open say a new GMail etc. That is so annoying. This doesn't seem to happen in Firefox!

This is handled at the OS layer with user accounts - can’t you switch users at the OS level?

I could but this ain't a corporate scenario.

Re: Goodbye, EdgeHTML

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Post by idoubtit »

jeffdavis wrote: post #262

Today I am happy to be a monthly contributor to Mozilla. * Mozilla stands up for privacy, user control, and open standards * They back it up with high quality technical products like firefox * They built rust, a language I love Seriously: if you want to buy happiness then supporting an organization like Mozilla is about the most efficient way possible

* Google stands up for privacy^W, user control, and open standards like HTTP2

* They back it up with high quality technical products like Chromium

* They built Go, a language I love

I could have written the same with Microsoft/VSCode/C# and Apple/Safari/Swift.

Seriously: Mozilla is good, but they're not saints, they're not totally different from other companies. They sometimes erred, even on the privacy of their users, which is their strong point. They are a commercial entity that sells services. It's easier to to keep enforcing a "Don't be evil" policy when you're not powerful enough to be evil.

Re: Goodbye, EdgeHTML

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Post by Chlorus »

Karunamon wrote: post #194

Firefox once again holds its own when it comes to speed and performance. Try Firefox as your default browser for a week and then decide. Challenge accepted. A week later, after having set Firefox to default on my systems and working with it, I decided that: * There's still no good replacement for DownThemAll or Tree Style Tabs (the gimped, non-feature-complete alternatives to those are not acceptable alternatives), *…

> * That the unfixed dupe SSL cert problem that makes Firefox unusable at work is going on a decade old and has no movement on it,

What problem is that? I haven't encountered that, but I really don't use FX that much.

>. Like making the actual browser better, rather than shoveling in crapware like https://testpilot.firefox.com/experiments/price-wise and ancillary, niche garbage like WebVR

Nah, I'm sure their priorities are in the right place /s - they sent me a newsletter message for a concert they're hosting for some reason because I'm on the MDN mailing list: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/concerts/?utm_campaign...

Re: Goodbye, EdgeHTML

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Post by [deleted] »

baby wrote: post #321
Someone1234 wrote: post #76

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The best thing about Firefox is Mozilla's Multi-Account Container tabs[0]. Essentially it allows you to put different tabs into different light-weight profiles, with their own session, cookies, and state. That means if you want to log into Facebook but don't want Facebook following you online, just give Facebook its own container. Mozilla has anti-tracking already baked in, but Multi-Account Containers are a whole ot…

No, the best thing about Firefox is Tree Style Tabs https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tree-style-ta...

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Re: Goodbye, EdgeHTML

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Post by iamstef »

stupidcar wrote: post #151
AaronFriel wrote: post #22

I'm wondering how, logistically, this make sense. Does Microsoft adopt Chromium/Blink for embedding in UWP apps and Electron? That will reduce memory and storage requirements for the latter, but greatly increases the attack surface of the former. Microsoft is also taking on an _enormous_ maintenance burden in integrating it with their own sandboxing and protection mechanisms. I'm in disbelief that the ongoing cost of…

Nowadays most enterprise and bespoke intranet apps are targeting Chrome as a platform, not "the web". It's a re-run of the IE6 situation in the late 90s / early 2000s, except this time Microsoft is the victim, not the beneficiary. Whereas it used to be that big IT departments would nix the installation of any 3rd party browser, nowadays almost all accept the use of Chrome. And if you're selling an app into a big comp…

history doesn't repeat itself but it does rhyme...

Re: Goodbye, EdgeHTML

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Post by leppr »

MrHorsetoast wrote: post #68
davidp wrote: post #19

Seriously, switch to Firefox. It's good again, and prioritizes privacy.[0] After Chrome's forced-sign-in debacle [1] I switched away from Chrome on all my platforms (Windows, Linux, Android) and haven't missed a thing. [0]: https://hacks.mozilla.org/2018/11/firefox-sync-privacy/ [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18055161

What about developer tools? As a front-end dev I'm very pleased with the tools Chrome offers. I only tried Firefox's dev tools briefly but can they compare?

Yes, they're mostly the same. On some points Firefox is better (e.g. DOM Inspector, Network tab, animations, dark theme), on others Chromium is (e.g. Profiler, sources). I use both.

Re: Goodbye, EdgeHTML

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Post by OhSoHumble »

davidp wrote: post #19

Seriously, switch to Firefox. It's good again, and prioritizes privacy.[0] After Chrome's forced-sign-in debacle [1] I switched away from Chrome on all my platforms (Windows, Linux, Android) and haven't missed a thing. [0]: https://hacks.mozilla.org/2018/11/firefox-sync-privacy/ [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18055161

Right now I have this bug in Firefox where the results from the drop down menu are incorrect. As in, if I get an autocomplete result that is several lines down - say, foobar.com - and I click on it then I'll be taken to barbar.com. If I click on the result that is several lines above foobar.com then I get foobar.com. I don't know how to explain this correctly.
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