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Re: Switch from Chrome to Firefox

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Post by jwr » Thu, May 30, 2019, 5:07 PM UTC

I don't understand why Mac users use Chrome. Safari seems to be out of fashion: people just assume that it should not be used for some reason, even though it is actually a great browser.

I use Safari for both my own browsing and for development (a fairly large ClojureScript application), and it is by far the best browser on the platform by all measures (speed first and foremost).

The only place where Safari falls short is 3D CAD programs (like OnShape), where Chrome is faster and better.

Re: Switch from Chrome to Firefox

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Post by pdjstone » Thu, May 30, 2019, 5:07 PM UTC

chinhodado wrote: post #113

dthedev wrote: post #92

Earlier quoted context omitted.

To be fair, you can't blame them for disallowing things like that. Protection against cross-site scripting, I'm sure.

I just don't see a realistic attack vector with cross-origin drag-n-drop.

Here's some stuff you used to be able to do by combining UI-redressing (clickjacking) with cross-origin drag and drop.

https://www.contextis.com/media/downloads/Context-Clickjacki...

There have also been plenty of UXSS bugs in various browsers caused by cross-origin drag-and-drop.

Re: Switch from Chrome to Firefox

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Post by select-all » Thu, May 30, 2019, 5:07 PM UTC

josteink wrote: post #74

intothev01d wrote: post #20

I 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

> One of my favorite features in Firefox is containers Container tabs are great. Combined with Tree Style Tabs and Containerise addons, you have something unbeatable in both terms of security, privacy and user friendliness.

Wow thanks! I've been looking for something like Containerise, but for Chrome for a while. Didn't know it already exists in FF.

Re: Switch from Chrome to Firefox

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Post by inyorgroove » Thu, May 30, 2019, 5:07 PM UTC

gravy wrote: post #44

Hextinium wrote: post #4

Am I missing something here? There is no article just a download link correct? I use Firefox exclusively because of the sidebar tab extension and will probably use it until Firefox dies a slow death.

Chrome's "Press Tab To Search" is way too useful for me to switch...

Poking around for a few minutes, looks like search engines can only be added via addons? This feature is too much of a time save to switch.

Re: Switch from Chrome to Firefox

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Post by tapoxi » Thu, May 30, 2019, 5:07 PM UTC

gravy wrote: post #44

Hextinium wrote: post #4

Am I missing something here? There is no article just a download link correct? I use Firefox exclusively because of the sidebar tab extension and will probably use it until Firefox dies a slow death.

Chrome's "Press Tab To Search" is way too useful for me to switch...

In Firefox you can find the search field on a page, right click, and 'add a keyword for this search'. Then you can just type that keyword in the address bar, for instance 'wp searchtermhere' for wikipedia.

Re: Switch from Chrome to Firefox

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Post by jolmg » Thu, May 30, 2019, 5:07 PM UTC

Hamuko wrote: post #124

pwinnski wrote: post #119

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As stated above, "In Chrome, you're eventually looking at triangles or lines with no way to differentiate them."

There are favicons. And Firefox does nothing to alleviate the problem, since it too only shows favicons. It just makes switching tabs more painful.

I was going to say that the favicons on Chrome probably disappear at some point too, but you're right. Chrome guarantees at least half a favicon on display, but to do so, new tabs are not put on the tab-bar. They're completely hidden with no way to access them via the tab-bar.

Re: Switch from Chrome to Firefox

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Post by 0az » Thu, May 30, 2019, 5:08 PM UTC

maxwellito wrote: post #64

Does it mean that passwords are stored in clear? If not, how other browsers manage to import this data? Sorry if the question is silly

Passwords are generally stored in the system keyring, or in some system-provided secure storage. I am 95% sure Firefox just reads this.

(It's also possible to CSV export from Chrome's password manager. I used this to import everything into BitWarden.)

Re: Switch from Chrome to Firefox

#168

Post by lordnacho » Thu, May 30, 2019, 5:08 PM UTC

I tried to do this, and I had to switch back. My setup is that I have loads of tabs open, with a vertical tab manager on the side. And FF has a pretty nice extension for that, plus you can take back some screen space by removing the top tabs using some css.

Anyway, when I have the same tabs and extensions in FF as in Chrome, the FF CPU usage is huge. I tried several things from the web, but nothing helped. Now I'm back on Chrome, which is less nice looking and less convenient, but the CPU usage is barely anything.

Re: Switch from Chrome to Firefox

#169

Post by calferreira » Thu, May 30, 2019, 5:08 PM UTC

Still there's one thing that Firefox can beat, Chrome dev tools are just the best, period.

Re: Switch from Chrome to Firefox

#170

Post by mceachen » Thu, May 30, 2019, 5:08 PM UTC

RosanaAnaDana wrote: post #108

discreditable wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You should only use one blocker at a time. Like antivirus apps, more is not better.

Why is this?

Presumably because an adblocker, like virus detection, consumes potentially non-trivial CPU, and may introduce race conditions of extensions applying deltas to a DOM which results in rendering and behavior bugs.