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Re: Switch from Chrome to Firefox

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Post by house9-2 » Thu, May 30, 2019, 6:57 PM UTC

reilly3000 wrote: post #264

That page is just missing one critical thing: 4. Migrate my extensions. It would be great if they developed a graph mapping Chrome extensions to Mozilla equivalents. Then the user could confirm installation of the ones with 1:1 parity, like LastPass, allow users to select similar extensions, or skip installing an equivalent. There are some Chrome-Exclusive extensions that keep me hooked. That and Firefox’s Storage in…

Have you checked out Brave browser?

Fork of Chrome and most if not all Google extensions work.

https://brave.com/

Re: Switch from Chrome to Firefox

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Post by chris_wot » Thu, May 30, 2019, 6:58 PM UTC

k_bx wrote: post #362

dhritzkiv wrote: post #207

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Agreed. On macOS, Safari is fastest, hands down. All while preserving battery life better than Chrome, and even Firefox. PiP, swipe to peak navigation, pinch to zoom, better 1Password integration, Apple Pay, etc. are all more than just nice to have features. However, my biggest gripe about Safari has to be the developer tools. They're noticeably slower, clunkier, and the network tab is unpredictable at times. I think…

> and even Firefox if you have a retina display, this "even" is sort of a joke, because ff is so CPU-heavy (and often slow) that it's unusable for me https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1404042

I have a retina display and I'm using Firefox right now with 5 tabs open. Working fine for me!

Re: Switch from Chrome to Firefox

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Post by d1ffuz0r » Thu, May 30, 2019, 6:59 PM UTC

You can use adguard to go around google's changes in browser api

Re: Switch from Chrome to Firefox

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Post by pinkflounder » Thu, May 30, 2019, 6:59 PM UTC

Switch to Brave.

Re: Switch from Chrome to Firefox

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Post by brink » Thu, May 30, 2019, 7:00 PM UTC

wmock wrote: post #464

I would switch off of Chrome if Firefox has better developer tools. Unfortunately, as a developer, Chrome's developer experience is just significantly better.

Use Firefox for everything but work.

Re: Switch from Chrome to Firefox

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Post by burtonator » Thu, May 30, 2019, 7:01 PM UTC

What they ALSO need to implement is differential sync... so if you continue to accidentally use Google Chrome then Firefox can just snarf in change for you.

Re: Switch from Chrome to Firefox

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Post by csharpminor » Thu, May 30, 2019, 7:02 PM UTC

> Firefox imports your bookmarks, autofills, passwords and preferences from Chrome.

I can't for the life of me figure out how to do this. I went to File > Import from another browser... and got a dialog that only allowed me to select "Cookies, Browsing History, or Bookmarks". No mention of autofills or passwords.

Am I missing something here?

Re: Switch from Chrome to Firefox

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Post by glaurung_ » Thu, May 30, 2019, 7:02 PM UTC

ProAm wrote: post #381

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.

FF is fast on the desktop but still very slow on android. Im not sure what the difference is, but Ive switched to using a chrome fork on android and FFon my desktop and am pretty pleased. Why do you say they work in concert?

I'd guess he wants to be able to sync bookmarks/passwords/etc across platforms. It's nice being able to find something on my phone and then pull it up later on my desktop using synced bookmarks or Firefox's "send tab to device" functionality.

I will say when I first started using Firefox on mobile it did seem slower, but the ability to use extensions like ublock has always made up for it. I think speed has gotten a bit better lately, but there's still room for improvement there.

Re: Switch from Chrome to Firefox

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Post by Endy » Thu, May 30, 2019, 7:02 PM UTC

I suggest that we instead switch to Pale Moon. Whatever you might feel about Moonchild, the browser is solid and reliable. All it really could benefit from would be a wider add-on dev community.

Re: Switch from Chrome to Firefox

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Post by Crosseye_Jack » Thu, May 30, 2019, 7:02 PM UTC

vbezhenar wrote: post #415

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…

"Most internet videos" probably is overstatement. I'm watching youtube, pornhub and twitch and I don't think that it requires any DRM. The only service with DRM I'm aware of is Netflix and it's terrible anyway.

> I'm watching youtube, pornhub and twitch and I don't think that it requires any DRM.

Depends on the content, If you are watching paid for content on YT it is most likely DRM'ed. [0] An "stats for nerds" example from such a piece of content (Notice the protected line, this line isn't present on DRM free YT Content.). But the vast majority of content on YT is DRM free.

Twitch has some DRM'ed content, things like when they streamed Thursday Night Football. But that was played via the Amazon Video player not twitches normal video player. I remember because the player threw a fit if you didn't have HDCP configured correctly, which most streamers don't. Not that they were trying to re-stream the game, but have it playing on another one of their monitors to see how it was doing. Personally I liked the idea of having a chat alongside the game :-)

Dunno about PornHub.

[0] - https://cejack.tk/2019-05-30_19-57-03-280.png