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Re: Switch from Chrome to Firefox

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Post by TheKarateKid »

Spivak wrote: post #380
Yoric wrote: post #270

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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.

This is fine for power users who care enough to do it. But for the general public, as well as companies which would need to do this if they wanted to support DRM in their own kind of browser, it is not going to fly with Google and probably isn't legal.

Re: Switch from Chrome to Firefox

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Post by aquova »

wishinghand wrote: post #474
gosseyn wrote: post #252

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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 looked up Vivaldi Speed Dial. It looks like the same sort of thing Firefox, Chrome, and Safari have where a new tab has a pinned list of favorite or most visited sites. What does Vivaldi do that I'm not seeing?

Having switched from Vivaldi back to Firefox about a year ago, the Vivaldi speed dial is similar to the pinned lists of favorites, but it's much more user friendly. You can customize how many sites you see, how many are in each column, number of columns, etc. You can also change the icon to be anything you like. It certainly wasn't a dealbreaker for me personally, and as you said, pinned favorites serve the same purpose, but it does feel more restrictive on FF.

Re: Switch from Chrome to Firefox

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Post by pvg »

mi100hael wrote: post #523
dfabulich wrote: post #515

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Safari doesn't support doesn't support multiple user profiles, and it doesn't support uBlock Origin. If you're switching browsers because you're upset that Chrome is breaking uBO, it makes no sense to switch to another browser that's never supported uBO and probably never will.

uBlock Origin is available on Safari. Installing it results in a "will slow down your browser" which is apparently just a CYA warning from Apple for any extensions not installed via the App Store. https://safari-extensions.apple.com/details/?id=com.el1t.uBl...

It's not 'a CYA warning'. The in-process JS extension API is going away.

Re: Switch from Chrome to Firefox

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Post by Bakary »

deviantfero wrote: post #300

The only reason I don't switch is that whenever Firefox has control of the webcam, I can't seem to be able to access the webcam with any other software, is this configurable? I work with webRTC a lot, so this is essential for me, I really want to switch

What do you think of the approach of using Firefox for your personal life and Chrome for your work life?

Re: Switch from Chrome to Firefox

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Post by betaby »

Firefox experience on Linux is lackluster. No hardware acceleration, neither on opensource video drivers, nor on proprietary(Nvidia and AMD). On the same hardware on Win10 Firefox experience is definitely better.

Re: Switch from Chrome to Firefox

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Post by ihuman »

josteink wrote: post #97
thegabez wrote: post #35

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Same, the only thing stopping me from switching is the hassle of porting a custom chrome extension to firefox.

Custom extensions are the easiest: Firefox loads the exact same unpacked extensions Chrome does. Both follow the WebExtensions-standard, so there’s not really much to “port”, if anything.

With newer versions of firefox you can only temporarily load unpacked extensions. You need to re-add them if you relaunch firefox.

https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2018/02/22/removing-support-...

Re: Switch from Chrome to Firefox

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Post by codedokode »

kumarharsh wrote: post #527
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…

You know what's horrifying about the idea of "just fork Chrome"? Google can still hurt you by blocking your browser's access to their prime properties (YouTube, Gmail, Maps, etc). Just look at YouTube denying Chromium-based Edge the new redesigned experience for absolutely zero reason.

This is already happening. Web version of Skype refuses to work in Firefox, but if you change user-agent to Edge, it works.

Re: Switch from Chrome to Firefox

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Post by TheKarateKid »

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 don't understand why Mac users use Chrome.

One word: iCloud. I don't feel like being encapsulated in Apple's ecosystem because their support on non-Apple products is limited, buggy, and/or non-existent.

Re: Switch from Chrome to Firefox

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Post by simias »

house9-2 wrote: post #481
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/

Once again, switching to a fork of Chrome doesn't really help anything, unless you believe that the Brave devs have the will and manpower to actually maintain a hard form of Chromium that would re-enable and maintain features disabled upstream in the long term.

It's like ditching Facebook for Instagram.

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