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You should only use one blocker at a time. Like antivirus apps, more is not better.
Why is this?
The different apps do the same thing and end up competing for resources.
Switch from Chrome to Firefox
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#172Google 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?
I'm sure it could, but who would implement it?
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#173My issue is extensions. Firefox will never have all the extensions I use on Chrome. I want to switch. I use firefox on my mobile. But I cant do it on my desktops.
Firefox supports nearly the same web-extensions API as Chrome. Often porting to firefox means a couple of tweaks are necessary on the part of the author, but try https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/chrome-store-... and see if maybe the extension you want is already usable.
How cool is this! Thanks for sharing
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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.
uMatrix works in Firefox stable as of last night
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#175What some probably consider a privacy nightmare is a Chrome feature I like very much: It syncs all my history, bookmarks and passwords across devices via my Google account. That's especially convenient whenever I get a new device. Is there something comparable for Firefox?
Firefox does have sync and it supposedly does all that. I use Firefox but don't use sync.
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#176This feels like the time GitHub was acquired by Microsoft and people started migrating to GitLab!
Re: Switch from Chrome to Firefox
#177What some probably consider a privacy nightmare is a Chrome feature I like very much: It syncs all my history, bookmarks and passwords across devices via my Google account. That's especially convenient whenever I get a new device. Is there something comparable for Firefox?
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#178Why is leaving the only recourse? Chromium is free software. Forking always remains an option.
The problem with all these browser forks is that, while they are certainly well intentioned, they're a dime a dozen and eventually die hard.
Over the years, I've seen countless forks of browsers that make these big promises but don't have the developer resources and funding behind them that make the main browsers possible. I can't imagine it's easy to just backport every feature and bugfix from upstream while also making your own changes.
Unless one plans on building a business or a foundation around a browser, the best that an OSS browser fork can hope for is to be a valiant effort that will quickly be superseded by another fork that promises to be even more private and ub3r l33t than the others.
Firefox is in great shape right now, and if it's not working well for some people(I'm honestly not having issues with it at this point), then we need to find ways to make Firefox more viable, whether it's getting people to donate to the Mozilla Foundation or better promotion or what.
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#179I 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 ba…
I think this is mainly an issue on macOS if you use a vertical sidebar, having to do with supporting it's translucency.
I think there's away to turn this off too, but I don't remember how, sorry.
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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.
Don't get me wrong-- on the Firefox side of things, it's been the user experience of the browser itself which has been suffering. Every single update since Quantum has made things worse. Three days ago I opened up Firefox to find out all of my settings had been nuked, 200+ tabs, themes and extensions lost, about:config reset, search settings reset (hello again Google) etc. I'm still fuming mad about this. I don't fee…
Can’t you restore all the settings from a TimeMachine backup or similar? They’re just stored in files in the profile directory.