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Re: Switch from Chrome to Firefox

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Post by pbhjpbhj »

aquova wrote: post #542
wishinghand wrote: post #474

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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 purp…

It used to be more customisable but FF wanted to dictate what users saw, for some reason, partially advertising ("recommended by pocket"). They really like to imitate the worst of commercial enterprise sometimes.

It has become a little more customisable now, thankfully.

Re: Switch from Chrome to Firefox

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Post by newnewpdro »

While you're at it, stop using Google products altogether.

This cycle will only repeat itself, Google is an advertising company.

If you work for this company, please quit and ply your talents somewhere less motivated to exploit people.

Re: Switch from Chrome to Firefox

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Post by simonsays2 »

dTal wrote: post #123
fencepost wrote: post #104

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I really wish that if Microsoft was going to abandon having their own engine that they'd gone to Mozilla instead.

No thanks. Keep Embrace, Extend, Extinguish away from my user agent.

That's not a real quote. Fake news.

Re: Switch from Chrome to Firefox

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Post by ornitorrincos »

alias_neo wrote: post #444
troels wrote: post #402

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I wonder if that might backfire. I've been using Chromium for a while now, but whenever I need to see video, I copy paste the url over to Firefox. At some point, I'm going to be bothered enough to just switch permanently to Firefox.

Now's the perfect time, it will even import all your stuff (see the link in OP). Make the switch.

I might be doing it wrong, but did't import passwords contrary to what it did promise.

Minor annoyance, though. Still switched in desktop as I was on mobile

Re: Switch from Chrome to Firefox

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Post by pbhjpbhj »

JadeNB wrote: post #569
RussianCow wrote: post #478

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> The only service with DRM I'm aware of is Netflix and it's terrible anyway. Ha! Tell that to their 150 million subscribers. :) More seriously, using a browser without DRM would be a deal-breaker to many users like myself solely because of Netflix, unfortunately. That said, if you're serious about using a DRM-free browser, there are other ways to watch Netflix (iOS/Android, smart TVs, etc).

> > The only service with DRM I'm aware of is Netflix and it's terrible anyway. > Ha! Tell that to their 150 million subscribers. :) I'm not sure that a large number of subscribers is a convincing argument of the non-terribleness of a service. A quick Google search suggests that Comcast, excuse me, Xfinity, has somewhere in the neighbourhood of 30 million subscribers. I don't think that you will find any argument tel…

Netflix is good for our household, better than Sky or BBC's offerings (for us).

Re: Switch from Chrome to Firefox

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Post by patrick5415 »

r3bl wrote: post #621
kumarharsh wrote: post #527

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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.

> Just look at YouTube denying Chromium-based Edge the new redesigned experience for absolutely zero reason. The reason is almost certainly a new user agent (compared to non-Chromium Edge) that YouTube didn't expect. Chromium-based Edge is still not stable, and therefore, not properly supported by YouTube. I don't have time to test this, but I'm willing to bet that you'd get the same result by using any indie browser…

This is a rediculous justification. Websites should not be coded to a whitelist of browsers.

Re: Switch from Chrome to Firefox

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Post by _opc6 »

dror wrote: post #636

It is so clear to me that we need to support and promote mozilla and Firefox. They're not perfect, but they, wikipedia, eff, archive.org (who else?) are such an important part of the Internet guardianship in the face of the monopolies, that it's our duty to support them. Doesn't hurt that Firefox is actually a great product.

I would switch today if Mozilla added tab completed search in the address bar that Chrome pioneered. It's very intuitive and difficult to give up.

Re: Switch from Chrome to Firefox

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Post by jotaf »

_opc6 wrote: post #667
dror wrote: post #636

It is so clear to me that we need to support and promote mozilla and Firefox. They're not perfect, but they, wikipedia, eff, archive.org (who else?) are such an important part of the Internet guardianship in the face of the monopolies, that it's our duty to support them. Doesn't hurt that Firefox is actually a great product.

I would switch today if Mozilla added tab completed search in the address bar that Chrome pioneered. It's very intuitive and difficult to give up.

You have tab completion in the search bar (Ctrl+K)!

Personally I disable the cloud-based suggestions and rely only on my local history.

Re: Switch from Chrome to Firefox

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Post by feanaro »

_opc6 wrote: post #667
dror wrote: post #636

It is so clear to me that we need to support and promote mozilla and Firefox. They're not perfect, but they, wikipedia, eff, archive.org (who else?) are such an important part of the Internet guardianship in the face of the monopolies, that it's our duty to support them. Doesn't hurt that Firefox is actually a great product.

I would switch today if Mozilla added tab completed search in the address bar that Chrome pioneered. It's very intuitive and difficult to give up.

I hope I don't sound crass, but how much is this feature going to matter to you once Google locks up the web?

Re: Switch from Chrome to Firefox

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Post by sorum »

atombender wrote: post #651
sorum wrote: post #540

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> better 1Password integration Am I using it wrong in Safari? Because to me the Chrome integration with 1Password X extension is by far the easiest, you get the dropdown right there in the field. In Safari, I have to click the 1Password extension button next to the address field and then select Autofill.

You can set a global keyboard shortcut for 1Password (e.g. cmd-alt-' or similar), which shows the autocompletion popup for whatever Safari window you're in.

That's what I've done. Thanks for confirming that I wasn't missing anything. I still think the Chrome implementation is the gold standard, but it's without a doubt workable in Safari.
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