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Switch from Chrome to Firefox
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#392Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't understand how it's better than multiple profiles. I use multiple accounts for the same services (Asana, AWS, email, etc.) how can I manage that with containers?
Containers helps keep things sandboxed and lets you use the same window with different tabs representing different sessions. So in your case you could have say a "work" container and a "home" container. Each of these could persist logins for all of the services you are using without having to switch between users and have different windows open you just have the 2 tabs. What I think people find more useful is the abi…
Firefox developers even make a specific Facebook Container add on that I recommend and use.
Instead of you needing to know all the tricks and tweaks needed to make it work well, they're in the box.
I don't even know it's there until it does something unexpected but necessary. For example the Facebook Container has no idea I pay YouTube not to show adverts. So inside Facebook any inlined YouTube video has adverts. If I follow a link to YouTube, I appear outside the Container and have no adverts but don't get followed by Facebook (they'd need YouTube to co-operate)
Re: Switch from Chrome to Firefox
#393I want to, but the simple behavior issues of the LastPass extension force me to use Chrome just for it. I don’t know if its LastPass or a limitation of Firefox that’s causing it, but it’s enough of a headache for how often I use LastPass that it prevents me from switching browsers. Is there an alternative to LastPass that has a better user experience on Firefox? If so I’ll try it. EDIT: I'll test out Bitwarden.
BitWarden
Unfortunately - my company is standardized on LastPass, so it makes it extra difficult
Re: Switch from Chrome to Firefox
#394Earlier quoted context omitted.
Didn't Mozilla promise to publish a post-mortem on the add-on thing two weeks ago? Did that ever happen? Not the CTO post during the issue; the follow up that was supposed to be more technical.
Yes, they have posted a post-mortem: https://hacks.mozilla.org/2019/05/technical-details-on-the-r...
No, that's the post that _promised_ a post-mortem:
> We’ll be running a formal post-mortem next week and will publish the list of changes we intend to make
Re: Switch from Chrome to Firefox
#395While Firefox is pretty great, be under no illusion that it’s a utopia of openness. It’s plugins are signed and quite tightly controlled. They banned the controversial ‘Dissenter’ plug-in seemingly for political reasons, and recently had the expired certificate ‘oops’ that rendered all plugins unusable for a day or so (without fiddly workarounds) They too could well bend to corporate pressures to limit ad-blocking, t…
Did they block it, or just ban it from their store? I thought people could still install it themselves.
It's banned from their store, and as of April, at least, it can only be loaded as a temporary add-on and must be manually reactivated each time Firefox is started.
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Firefox's sign-in uses client-side crypto to ensure that your data is only accessible to you, not Mozilla.
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#397People have this idea that Chrome is the fastest browser... is this even true anymore?
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#398I switched to Brave browser last year and I never regretted my decision.
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#399Earlier quoted context omitted.
They really can't, though. There's a pile of corpses of people who tried to embed Gecko, because it turns out Netscape/Mozilla is really bad at keeping a stable ABI. I doubt anybody remembers K-meleon anymore, for example. As far as I know Servo was supposed to be the new, embeddable engine, but that's mostly cancelled now and the Rust bits are just being rolled into Gecko (via Project Quantum). I believe that's why…
For what it's worth, Mozilla now has GeckoView, which has a stable embedding API. But yeah, it took about 15 too many years to get there...
I thought GeckoView is Android-only? Which means Microsoft couldn't exactly use it for Edge…
Re: Switch from Chrome to Firefox
#400What 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?
Yes, Firefox Sync