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Re: Switch from Chrome to Firefox

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Post by cpeterso »

magnamerc wrote: post #230
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've only come across widevine for Netflix content. Are there others that require widevine?

Amazon Prime, Hulu, and YouTube's paid content use Widevine DRM.

Re: Switch from Chrome to Firefox

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Post by auiya »

pixelrevision wrote: post #323
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 has a few things not going for it: 1) ad blocking options are really inferior to chrome (for now) or firefox so a lot of what you gain in speediness gets taken away by some of the garbage that modern websites spit back at you. 2) The dev tools are confusing now. They have good ones but they need to redesign some of the UI on it. 3) There's not a good way to containerize things which means you end up having to…

While I disagree about ad-blocking and webdev options, Safari's reader mode and overall OS performance is a reason enough to never touch another browser. I have no use-case for multi-user containerization so no opinion there.

Re: Switch from Chrome to Firefox

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Post by lavezzi »

brightball wrote: post #367

I 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.

Dashlane maybe?

Re: Switch from Chrome to Firefox

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Post by vbezhenar »

pattpass wrote: post #206
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.

What benefit does Microsoft have by using Mozilla instead? Earnest question. Electron, the software framework VSCode uses, runs on Chromium. Github maintained and developed the framework and they are currently owned by Microsoft. If Microsoft contributes to Chromium and improves performance they benefit in a lot of places: their new browser is improved(Edge Chromium), their own framework(Electron), and their own prod…

One benefit would be to reduce dependency on Google. Huawei used Android that was owned by enemy country, it backfired.

Re: Switch from Chrome to Firefox

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Post by BlueTemplar »

teh_klev wrote: post #378
BlueTemplar wrote: post #368

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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)....?

Do you think that Microsoft is just doing it out of the goodness of their hearts? And that Open Source, but especially Libre Software, is going to be compatible with whatever they have in mind ?

Re: Switch from Chrome to Firefox

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Post by cpeterso »

mook wrote: post #399
Yoric wrote: post #278

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

Yes. GeckoView is Android-only. GeckoView is currently used in Firefox Focus, Firefox Reality VR, the upcoming "Fenix" browser, some Mozilla test apps, and a couple third-party apps.

Re: Switch from Chrome to Firefox

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Post by 3xblah »

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…

There was a time when browsers did not have built-in media players.

Seems like ffmpeg libraries, developed outside of the web browser, support nearly all video formats a user could encounter on the internet.

Also, the part of the statement that reads "your new browser won't work with most internet video" is intriguing.

Can we define "most internet video" as Amazon Video, BBC, Hulu, Netflix and Spotify? (Widevine users listed on its Wikipedia page)

Seems like there is much, much more video on the internet that does not come from those sources.

Re: Switch from Chrome to Firefox

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Post by unsignedint »

mtgx wrote: post #356
unsignedint wrote: post #312

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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)

He was asking for the reverse -- what does Chrome offer extra?

Oops ;-)

Well... I have that one, too... Chromecast.

Re: Switch from Chrome to Firefox

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Post by chrischen »

dcope wrote: post #307
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…

I'd use Safari over Chrome, but Safari has a couple of show-stopping bugs: 1. Swiping back on the trackpad to navigate backwards freezes the page for a couple of seconds. It then redraws the page with any updated elements (perhaps a refresh?). 2. The element CSS attributes in the dev tools often fail to update the DOM, duplicate with every keystroke, or revert what you have typed.

1) is a known bug. The fix is to switch to 3 finger back swipe in trackpad settings. Back becomes instant.
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