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Re: Switch from Chrome to Firefox

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Post by soulofmischief »

acemarke wrote: post #221
soulofmischief wrote: post #157

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

Firefox 67 tried to switch to creating a new profile folder by default. It seems that the process might have gone wrong. It's likely that your settings still exist, but in a separate profile folder.

Someone else was saying something similar but I couldn't find any more info, any idea how to restore it on Windows? Linux FF seemed to be ok.

Re: Switch from Chrome to Firefox

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Post by unsignedint »

rc_kas wrote: post #293

Does anyone have a single thing that Chrome does that FF does not? For the life of me I cannot understand why anyone uses Chrome. But if anyone has information on Chrome that I do not, please let me know.

Here are ones I find useful myself:

- TRR (Trusted Recursive Resolver -- e.g. DNS Over HTTPS) - Add-On supports on Android - Multi-Account Container (although this is more of Add-on)

Re: Switch from Chrome to Firefox

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Post by BinaryIdiot »

Ugh. Look, I used to use Chrome as my primary browser but I switched to Firefox like a year ago. I tried really, really hard to stay with Firefox. But it just doesn't work as well as Chrome. I get that it's not entirely Firefox's fault. Sometimes it is (for instance when things crash in Firefox it almost always crashes my entire browser, Chrome never crashes that way). But it's hard to tell a user to go use another browser when everyone is testing and using Chrome.

It's IE6 all over again just in different ways.

Perhaps I'll try a chronium fork. Sure it's not as good of a move but maybe I'll have better luck with issues. I'll likely try Firefox again to see if things are better (I usually use Firefox for some things at work anyway).

Re: Switch from Chrome to Firefox

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Post by happytoexplain »

lucb1e wrote: post #222
mh-cx wrote: post #152

What 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?

It would have taken you less long to duck/google that than to type that comment, so I feel like I'm missing your point. Did you mean to emphasize that you don't mind sharing data with Google, or was it really just asking about if firefox sync exists?

Please don't discourage people from asking questions directly to other humans. Google results can be surprisingly obtuse, and no matter how much information has been written about something, there are always cases where the clearest and fullest answer for a given individual comes from a direct response - and even if that's not the case here, people certainly don't need more excuses to shy away from asking questions.

Re: Switch from Chrome to Firefox

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Post by GuB-42 »

throw0101a wrote: post #53
huy-nguyen wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Please stop using AdBlock/AdBlockPlus. Use uBlock Origin instead.

How come? (I tend to use uMatrix.)

uBlock Origin uses less RAM than AdBlock plus to do the same thing.

AdBlock plus also has the "acceptable ads" program that most people dislike but it can be easily turned off. The rest is mostly politics.

Re: Switch from Chrome to Firefox

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Post by danarmak »

gosseyn wrote: post #252
marricks wrote: post #15

Google 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…

I used to have Firefox and Vivaldi ...but honestly I used Vivaldi mainly...when I heard that even Microsoft was going to use chromium I realized...Firefox is literally the last front ! I installed Firefox and started using it as my main browser! What I miss the most is Vivaldi speed dial and bookmarks. Add-ons aren't always a solution ! I miss Netscape days...internet wasn't a megacorp business playground :( !

> I miss Netscape days...internet wasn't a megacorp business playground :( !

You mean "this website is optimized for Internet Explorer 6" days? Or the earlier "this website is optimized for Netscape 2.0" days?

I think the nearest the web ever came to not being any megacorp's playground was when Firefox was at around 30% market share, and IE6 which had 60%+ market share had stopped moving. IOW, when MS still had the playground mostly to themselves, but chose to ignore it. And even then, the web / Firefox couldn't really innovate without breaking IE6 compatibility, so everyone was stuck.

Re: Switch from Chrome to Firefox

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Post by kossae »

iamjustlooking wrote: post #196
jwr wrote: post #161

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 sho…

Safari seems lacking in the browser extensions department.

This is probably the only reason I don't use Safari on macOS. Especially since their new extension API came out, most of the (few) extensions I was even able to find are now manual-install pains.

Re: Switch from Chrome to Firefox

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Post by unsignedint »

roryrjb wrote: post #82

As of Firefox 67, it is actually very fast and performant for me on Linux. Every time I have tried Firefox Quantum it has been noticeably slower than Chrome. I really want to use Firefox because Google is basically evil and I'm trying to migrate from every service I have with them; slowly but surely; but I used Hangouts Meet the other day with work and it was very very unstable. Of course I don't blame Firefox for th…

I've noticed start up of a lot snappier than Firefox 66, particularly when there's a lot going on the system.

I think they now defer loading of some of the components until the application starts and that's helping a lot.

Re: Switch from Chrome to Firefox

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Post by rigorman »

Controversial question from someone not as informed on the state of current as most here:

Anyone thinking of switching to a browser that doesn't have any script-interpretation ability? (Text-only or html/css only?) What options are currently out there?

Re: Switch from Chrome to Firefox

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Post by soulofmischief »

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

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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'm in a weird position where this particular Firefox on this particular machine didn't have a backup.

Of course, Firefox should not be pushing rushed, unfinished releases as they have been, they should never destroy data even one update every 10 years, because it is supposed to be stable software.

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