Firefox 65.0 released • Hacker News Board

Re: Firefox 65.0 released

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Post by randie63 » Tue, Jan 29, 2019, 7:46 PM UTC

lugg wrote: post #100

Recently switched from chromium to Firefox. Very pleased with its performance. Android Firefox demolishes chrome too but probably just because I no longer need to download and render all the ads (thanks ublock.) While I was at it I also took the chance to migrate passwords out of Google land into Bitwarden. Session restore is amazing, my .cache is tmpfs but it still manages to instantly recover all my tabs on reboot.…

If you really think Firefox is faster on Android, that you have not tried the optimized Kiwi Browser. Try it, and report back how much faster kiwi is compared to Firefox hehe

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kiwibrowse...

Re: Firefox 65.0 released

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Post by wiktental » Tue, Jan 29, 2019, 7:55 PM UTC

lugg wrote: post #100

Recently switched from chromium to Firefox. Very pleased with its performance. Android Firefox demolishes chrome too but probably just because I no longer need to download and render all the ads (thanks ublock.) While I was at it I also took the chance to migrate passwords out of Google land into Bitwarden. Session restore is amazing, my .cache is tmpfs but it still manages to instantly recover all my tabs on reboot.…

How "safe" and separated are profiles?

For example, suppose I had a "Casual Browsing" profile and a "Banking" profile.

Could I have both profiles running at the same time and not risk any contamination?

If I were to pick up something bad in one profile, could it leak over to the other?

Re: Firefox 65.0 released

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Post by rayshan » Tue, Jan 29, 2019, 7:57 PM UTC

gardaani wrote: post #85

FF65 also supports WebP images and animations. Here's few test images: https://developers.google.com/speed/webp/gallery1

After 8 years, thank god! Image heavy pages load 40% faster now, like my photography index with lots more test images: https://shan.io/photography/

Re: Firefox 65.0 released

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Post by numbsafari » Tue, Jan 29, 2019, 7:58 PM UTC

Zhyl wrote: post #73

tombert wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think the intended market for FirefoxOS was pretty different than ChromeOS. Wasn't FirefoxOS for low-powered phones? ChromeOS is designed around a "streamlined" laptop system.

Yeah, FFOS essentially had the SteamOS problem - targeting a market that didn't have any 'wedge' users in their existing demographics. For Firefox OS and Steam OS to take off you needed to buy new hardware and the people most on board with this already had hardware and didn't have a use case for buying more (low end phone for Firefox, PC-as-a-console for SteamOS). In either case there was a small pool of first movers…

Schools. Schools would be pretty motivated to drop Google because Google is an ads company.

Schools love chrome books and gsuite, but struggle with trusting an add company.

Re: Firefox 65.0 released

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Post by [deleted] » Tue, Jan 29, 2019, 7:58 PM UTC

Wowfunhappy wrote: post #217

numbsafari wrote: post #32

I wish Mozilla started to compete with Google on ChromeOS. Just make it the browser and leverage containers to keep things locked down. There’s a total business here and Mozilla could make it happen, without the entanglements of the ads business. Real missed opportunity to help promote open standards at the services level as well.

I'm kind of surprised no one has put something like this together as a hobby project. Just make a custom version of Debian which autoboots Firefox...

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Re: Firefox 65.0 released

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Post by wiktental » Tue, Jan 29, 2019, 7:58 PM UTC

jedberg wrote: post #299

I recently made the transition back to Firefox too, like a lot of other folks in here it seems. Containers makes working with all my AWS much easier, and the containers isolating Facebook are great. One problem though, that I can't solve, is that every once in a while I want to log in with Facebook, like for AirBnB. But I can't, because the cookie only lives in the Facebook container, but I can't add AirBnB as a host…

Would you happen to know how safe and separate the containers are?

Like, if I had a specific container used for Banking sites, would it be relatively safe from other containers?

Currently, I use Firefox for casual browsing and Chrome for email and financial related sites. But it would be nice to just use Firefox for both. I'm just worried it would be less safe.

Re: Firefox 65.0 released

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Post by daveheq » Tue, Jan 29, 2019, 8:01 PM UTC

lugg wrote: post #100

Recently switched from chromium to Firefox. Very pleased with its performance. Android Firefox demolishes chrome too but probably just because I no longer need to download and render all the ads (thanks ublock.) While I was at it I also took the chance to migrate passwords out of Google land into Bitwarden. Session restore is amazing, my .cache is tmpfs but it still manages to instantly recover all my tabs on reboot.…

Unless 65 is faster it's not worth it to me... I work very fast, like Chrome, like other apps on my OS, and there's no excuse for Firefox to run slow like it does on my Windows and Mac still.

Re: Firefox 65.0 released

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Post by zwayhowder » Tue, Jan 29, 2019, 8:03 PM UTC

The hard-coded alt+# for switching to numbered tabs is a deal breaker for me. I wish it wasn't but I have ingrained ctrl+# for switching and alt+# is used for my window manager. I accept I'm in a minority, but it seems like a strange design decision for an open browser.

Re: Firefox 65.0 released

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Post by abryzak » Tue, Jan 29, 2019, 8:06 PM UTC

I just updated and immediately noticed two things that bothered me:

1. It added a new search engine (amazon.com.au) to my list that I'd culled down to just DuckDuckGo

2. It started recommending extensions for websites I visited

Maybe I'm overreacting a bit but why does it feel like every time I update anything recently I then have to spend 5 minutes going through the preferences to make sure it hasn't changed anything. It makes me hesitant to update any app when I feel like the developers are working against my interests.

Re: Firefox 65.0 released

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Post by zdragnar » Tue, Jan 29, 2019, 8:10 PM UTC

Tepix wrote: post #246

lugg wrote: post #100

Recently switched from chromium to Firefox. Very pleased with its performance. Android Firefox demolishes chrome too but probably just because I no longer need to download and render all the ads (thanks ublock.) While I was at it I also took the chance to migrate passwords out of Google land into Bitwarden. Session restore is amazing, my .cache is tmpfs but it still manages to instantly recover all my tabs on reboot.…

I hadn't heard about Bitwarden. Looks like it requires 2-4GB of RAM and a x86 CPU to run your own server due to relying on MS SQL server. Bummer!

I've been pretty happy with https://www.passwordstore.org/ Keeps passwords encrypted in git, and there's plugins and open source apps for just about everything. Throw your store in a private repo somewhere and you're good to go, no need to worry about Bitwarden or Lastpass or anyone else going out of business.