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Re: Switch from Chrome to Firefox

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Post by Barrin92 »

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.

the 'tab to search' feature that lets you search websites directly from the searchbar. Apparently you can set up something similar in firefox but you have to do it for every site individually, which is too inconvenient for me.

Also VAAPI support on linux, which firefox ironically treats like a second class citizen. Can't watch HD videos on youtube without my cpu melting on Firefox.

Re: Switch from Chrome to Firefox

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Post by askosh »

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…

Funny, I also use Safari on my Mac and I also work with a rather large ClojureScript application.

Re: Switch from Chrome to Firefox

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Post by asd »

pwinnski wrote: post #134
dictum wrote: post #86

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I like Safari, but its extension system is even more restrictive. Something like uBlock Origin cannot be implemented anymore. It's an Apple tradition — if you like what's in the box, great, but you won't be able to customize it much later.

I was surprised to see your comment, in Safari, directly below the uBlock Origin icon. It seems to be working fine for me. Do you have more details on what you mean?

Legacy Safari extensions will no longer be supported. Scroll down to "Safari Extensions".

https://webkit.org/blog/8825/release-notes-for-safari-techno...

Re: Switch from Chrome to Firefox

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Post by dymk »

rkangel wrote: post #357

What is the actual performance story these days? Last time I tried Firefox (soon after they were making a fuss about Quantum) I was fairly disappointed. I'm including performance of the Android browser here (because they work in concert as far as I'm concerned). Also, what pain am I going to hit with DRM and online video? I use the usual suspects - Amazon, Netflix, Youtube.

I've been disappointed with Firefox on MacOS. I tried it for months, but it constantly crashed on me, especially when using multiple monitors, and was super laggy and jittery compared to what I was used to.

I gave up and went back to Chrome, which has been as performant as ever.

Re: Switch from Chrome to Firefox

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Post by jmondi »

rudolph9 wrote: post #275

Already made the switch. My workflow has hardly changed at all.

For me it was hard to train myself to stop using Chrome and start using Firefox. A few months ago I created an alfred workflow to help train quick `⌘ + space` users to use Firefox.

https://github.com/jasonraimondi/alfred-workflow-launch-fire...

Re: Switch from Chrome to Firefox

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Post by teh_klev »

BlueTemplar wrote: post #368
teh_klev wrote: post #303

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Jeez not this trope(|tripe) again. It's boring and it's tedious. It's in the past. Under different management. Sure MS are no angels, but they seem to be doing far less harm these days than Google/Facebook et al.

Are you for real? See what has been happening to GitHub for the last year or so...

I'll bite, tell me (I already know they were acquired by Microsoft)....?

Re: Switch from Chrome to Firefox

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Post by tynorf »

stephenr wrote: post #336
tlb wrote: post #258

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Please don't normalize that behavior. Not having regular backups is dumb, like not wearing seatbelts. On a Mac it's so easy -- just plug a drive in once a week or so and Time Machine does its thing. A 1 TB hard drive is cheap, far less than the value of a lost day.

Why once a week? Leave it plugged in, you get more granular recent backups, and don’t have to remember to plug it in.

macOS will create local backups (space permitting) and then dump them all at once when connected to the Time Machine drive. Though of course you won't have the backups from between the last time you connected the drive to the time your computer was hosed.

Re: Switch from Chrome to Firefox

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Post by Spivak »

Yoric wrote: post #270
mrb wrote: post #220

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« To those who say just fork Chrome adfm had a good article explaining why that doesn’t work: [Chromium, Widevine...] » To my knowledge Widevine DRM works with Chromium. You can watch DRM'd videos: https://forum.manjaro.org/t/how-to-install-widevine-on-chrom...

I remember of projects that failed because Widevine explicitly didn't work in their Chromium. I assume that Widevine builds nicely but requires a Google-issued key to work.

Yep! Which is why the Arch package just extracts it from Chrome and then puts it in the right place for Chromium.

I mean if you could just build Widevine and decrypt content it wouldn't be very good DRM.

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