This page does not make clear how to switch back if the user get anything wrong by switching to Firefox. That is probably the biggest blocker right now.
Switch from Chrome to Firefox
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Re: Switch from Chrome to Firefox
#142Google will keep locking down Chrome and using corporate talk to hand wave it away, only recourse is to leave. First it’s “sign in” with obtuse ways to turn it off. Then block Adblocking, once again with obtuse ways to disable... the end goal is pretty obvious, get the majority of Chrome users to turn on ads and tie their real names to their Chrome browser. Of course let “power users” (who’ll turn that crap off anywa…
Widevine works with Firefox. Why couldn't it with Chromium?
Re: Switch from Chrome to Firefox
#143I tried to switch just now, looks like uMatrix doesn't work in Firefox? That's a blocker for me... I've spent a lot of time creating a ruleset on uMatrix, not looking to try recreating that.
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#144I switched a couple of months ago because Chrome is just a bloated piece of garbage. One of my favorite features in Firefox is containers, which I used to have different users for in Chrome. Maybe Chrome has something similar now but it's one of the things I liked when I switched over. Haven't had any issues so far, glad I did
I don't understand how it's better than multiple profiles. I use multiple accounts for the same services (Asana, AWS, email, etc.) how can I manage that with containers?
LOL, I'll sometimes just use different channel versions of browsers for different accounts when I have to access them regularly. The worst imho is when you have a google personal account and a google business (apps) account for work.
It's definitely something I'd like to see worked out better as a power user feature.
Re: Switch from Chrome to Firefox
#145Switch to Safari instead if you're on Mac, if you care about privacy and security: https://webkit.org/blog/8943/privacy-preserving-ad-click-att...
And if you want more broken websites, sure.
Safari is the new IE when it comes to bugs and standards compliance.
Here's an example that broke many many sites that use OAuth2 Auth Code Flow for login (including the main UI portal my company provides clients): https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=194906
This was also an issue in iOS, and since Apple doesn't let any other browsers actually use their own rendering engine on that platform (they're just wrappers around Safari's guts) this was broken for all iPhone users no matter the browser.
I avoid using iDevices for this reason alone.
Re: Switch from Chrome to Firefox
#146I hope so because almost every bug I run into during webdev is Chrome, and usually I'm told it's intended behavior or a WONTFIX. With the way Google tries to strongarm standards and at the same time defy them, it's the modern Internet Explorer and it's a PITA to develop for.
What the heck bugs are you running into that surface as a result of chrome being chrome? I’m no google fan but I find chrome to be far and away the most stable and enjoyable browser to debug with.
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=158753 meant PhotoStructure had to do user agent sniffing. If it's Firefox, I can stream the original image directly, and the correct thing happens. With Chrome, I have to do the rotation server-side before I send it to the browser (or I'd have to send metadata about the image to rotate it client-side with CSS, either is irritating).
There are several more #ifdefs I've had to add due to weird chrome glitches (like around the html5 video player, which just works seamlessly with Firefox).
Re: Switch from Chrome to Firefox
#147Earlier quoted context omitted.
There is an add-on called uMatrix for FF. I haven't tried it so I cn't tell you if it works or not. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/umatrix/
Sorry I was unclear, uMatrix still exists, and I used to use it on Firefox, but now I get a message: uMatrix could not be verified for use in Firefox and has been disabled.
It's working for me, make sure you have the latest Firefox version, there was a bug a few days ago which broke addon-on signature verification.
Re: Switch from Chrome to Firefox
#148Earlier quoted context omitted.
There is an add-on called uMatrix for FF. I haven't tried it so I cn't tell you if it works or not. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/umatrix/
Sorry I was unclear, uMatrix still exists, and I used to use it on Firefox, but now I get a message: uMatrix could not be verified for use in Firefox and has been disabled.
Works fine here. You're on current FFx?
Re: Switch from Chrome to Firefox
#149I switched a couple of months ago because Chrome is just a bloated piece of garbage. One of my favorite features in Firefox is containers, which I used to have different users for in Chrome. Maybe Chrome has something similar now but it's one of the things I liked when I switched over. Haven't had any issues so far, glad I did
I don't understand how it's better than multiple profiles. I use multiple accounts for the same services (Asana, AWS, email, etc.) how can I manage that with containers?
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Re: Switch from Chrome to Firefox
#150I switched a couple of months ago because Chrome is just a bloated piece of garbage. One of my favorite features in Firefox is containers, which I used to have different users for in Chrome. Maybe Chrome has something similar now but it's one of the things I liked when I switched over. Haven't had any issues so far, glad I did
I don't understand how it's better than multiple profiles. I use multiple accounts for the same services (Asana, AWS, email, etc.) how can I manage that with containers?
You log in with one account in one container and with the other account in another, and can mix them in the same browser session?