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Re: Switch from Chrome to Firefox

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Post by icebraining »

mattfrommars wrote: post #81

I like to switch from Chrome to Firefox but only thing keeping me with Chrome is its superior web development tool. One my the dev here recommends us to use Chrome because of its better Javascript debugger - something to do with the output in the web console takes you to the corresponding Javascript line & instance where it is invoked on the web page. I am not entirely sure what it is. Whatever it is, its not in Fire…

You could always use Chrome for dev and Firefox for the rest. The lack of ad-blocking is presumably not a problem for your sites in development, and you'll be supporting Firefox just the same!

Re: Switch from Chrome to Firefox

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Post by xfer »

discreditable wrote: post #52
radamadah wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I use Adblock Plus ( https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/adblock-plus/ ), and I also have AdBlock installed ( https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/adblock-for-f... ), just in case the first one doesn't work. They are two of the most popular adblock plugins on Firefox. Or you could just use uBlock Origin on Firefox ( https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ublock-origin )!

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

No umatrix provides finer control and is definitely useful along with your adblocker.

Re: Switch from Chrome to Firefox

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Post by yoklov »

chrisjc wrote: post #137
fencepost wrote: post #104

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I really wish that if Microsoft was going to abandon having their own engine that they'd gone to Mozilla instead.

Without giving it much thought, I do too. Anyone know what MSs stance on Rust is?

They use it for some Azure things, IIRC.

Re: Switch from Chrome to Firefox

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Post by holoduke »

It would be awesome to create somekind of quide on how to switch from the Google ecosystem to something different. Mail, browser, agenda, drive, photos etc. I would seriously pay 50 bucks per month to have something different without bullshit companies like Google behind it.

Re: Switch from Chrome to Firefox

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Post by BuckRogers »

function_seven wrote: post #78
throwayEngineer wrote: post #22

Is this a coordinated ad campaign for Firefox? I find it odd how there will be Google Hate, and unanimous Firefox support. I guess I'm looking to hear from users who actually removed Google from their life and are happy. Chrome is only 1 of the Google products I've used.

I starting switching away from Google over the last year. The biggest step was moving off my Gmail account, and the trigger for that was the UI terribleness of Gmail. That took a few hours of updating every account I have with my new address. Password manager really helped with this. I've never been much of a Chrome user. A few years ago, Chrome was unusable for me on my 2GB work machine, and was a battery-killer on…

Try !sp if you want to see Google results, no need to use !g directly even if you did prefer the results. Google Maps and Youtube are very difficult to replace, if you live in a big city using varied modes of transit (walking, bus/train, driving), Google Maps is really tough to beat. I reduced my Google-coverage, but I don't intend to eliminate it altogether.

What did you move to for email? Fastmail with a custom domain? I've long considered ProtonMail but unlikely to go that route.

I'm between paying for iCloud storage and using that, or Outlook.com The additional phone backup space with iCloud would be very nice anyway, so as a monthly payment, it's a one-stop shop. At this point it's extremely unlikely I'll ever go back to Android so that works for me. Or, just moving to Outlook.com. I'm leaning towards Outlook simply because of the better calendar system. Both Gmail and Outlook support email reminders for calendar items. I could get used to iOS-only notifications, but I really prefer notifications to come through email since I often include explicit instructions.

Re: Switch from Chrome to Firefox

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Post by javagram »

badamp wrote: post #180
soulofmischief wrote: post #157

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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.

I upvoted you (because your suggestion is a good solution) but let’s be real, most people don’t have backups, even developers.

In my experience as a developer companies don’t even issue me a USB backup drive to run time machine on my work issued MacBook Pro unless I specifically request it.

Re: Switch from Chrome to Firefox

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Post by SilasX »

Um, Firefox does the same sorts of thing.

A) Want to use unsigned addons to play around, or tweak your existing ones[1]? Nope, even if you allow them in about:config, you can't; you have to use a special development version and update it separately.

B) Want to customize your keyboard shortcuts? Sorry, that's not safe, you have to use a crippled API that won't take effect until a given page loads.

C) Want to control your setup? Sorry, their "studies" feature is owned by the marketing team and can make arbitrary changes to the app on the fly, all the way up to its cryptographic infrastructure! (As we learned in the recent add-on mishap [2].)

I use Firefox, but they're not obviously better on these matters.

[1] Like, I don't know, if you made a big deal about underprivileged groups getting into coding, and actually wanted to take the concept seriously rather than just get some photogenic token to write hello-world for a photo op.

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19826827

Re: Switch from Chrome to Firefox

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Post by scotu »

I switched back to firefox little before the quantum release because I was around when we had Internet Explorer 6 (and the many years of fallout from it). What's your excuse for using chrome?
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