Switch from Chrome to Firefox • Hacker News Board

Re: Switch from Chrome to Firefox

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Post by thayne » Thu, May 30, 2019, 9:59 PM UTC

logicallee wrote: post #607

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…

Luckily for us, there's antitrust law. This isn't really possible: Reproduction steps: 1. Check that Google search is working by opening Chrome, navigating to www.google.com, and searching for any term (such as the name of a newspaper and clicking the link to verify that search works as expected.) 2. Open firefox.com and navigate to www.google.com You will receive a message: "It looks like you have Chrome installed!…

Assuming antitrust law is enforced...

Re: Switch from Chrome to Firefox

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Post by objektif » Thu, May 30, 2019, 10:00 PM UTC

ElijahLynn wrote: post #709

Can also switch to https://brave.com/ , based on Chromium, with native ad blocking at the lowest level, fast.

Shouldnt we instead promote the major competitor with sufficient funding so that people are more likely to stick with for longer term?

Re: Switch from Chrome to Firefox

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Post by jolmg » Thu, May 30, 2019, 10:03 PM UTC

nyjah wrote: post #504

dccoolgai wrote: post #459

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The day the Web sold its soul. Such a disappointment when TBL came out in support of that. People who knew better tried to warn us, but they all got shouted down and told there "was no other choice" b/c content creators were going to try an lock down with extensions and it would somehow be worse.

TBL? Can you extrapolate? I google it and its "The Basketball League". I just think your comment had the opportunity to continue to educate me on something I have never heard of or about and to throw in an acronym without having used the the 3 words before is confusing.

dccoolgai was probably refering to this:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19363838

Re: Switch from Chrome to Firefox

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Post by jb1991 » Thu, May 30, 2019, 10:03 PM UTC

latexr wrote: post #719

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.

> Doesn't hurt that Firefox is actually a great product. Arguably. On these threads there is always a handful of complaints about the state of Firefox, mostly on macOS. On my machine, I can’t even launch Firefox in headless mode without the fans turning on, which never happened on Chrome. While I haven’t benchmarked it, for normal browsing it does feel slower than Crome. But what kills it for me is their crippled App…

Yeah, unfortunately, Mozilla has consistently demonstrated over recent years that it doesn't care about Mac users. It's weird, to be honest.

The widespread issues for many, though not all, Mac users, will not make it a ubiquituous browser.

Re: Switch from Chrome to Firefox

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Post by gzimhelshani » Thu, May 30, 2019, 10:04 PM UTC

I WOULD SWITCH IF THEIR DEV TOOLS WERE AS GOOD AS CHROME'S

Re: Switch from Chrome to Firefox

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Post by gzimhelshani » Thu, May 30, 2019, 10:05 PM UTC

I WOULD SWITCH IF THEIR DEV TOOLS WERE AS GOOD AS CHOME'S

Re: Switch from Chrome to Firefox

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Post by techntoke » Thu, May 30, 2019, 10:05 PM UTC

gzimhelshani wrote: post #725

I WOULD SWITCH IF THEIR DEV TOOLS WERE AS GOOD AS CHROME'S

And if they supported hardware accelerated video on Linux like Chromium on many distros.

Re: Switch from Chrome to Firefox

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Post by BenElgar » Thu, May 30, 2019, 10:05 PM UTC

meerita wrote: post #705

I switched Firefox today, after so many years on Chrome. One of the reasons I found valid to use Chrome it was having the browsing history on my phone, but now i felt i really don't care that much. I value more to be controlling all privacy and not eating that many cookies, scripts.

Try Firefox for mobile. As a bonus you'll get add-ons as well so you can block ads.

https://www.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/mobile/

Re: Switch from Chrome to Firefox

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Post by latexr » Thu, May 30, 2019, 10:05 PM UTC

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…

> The only place where Safari falls short is 3D CAD programs

Safari has poor controls if you care about privacy and having some modicum of control over the websites you visit.

In Chrome we can — on a per-site basis — disable/enable JavaScript; disable/enable cookies (and local storage); allow only some cookies; set which cookies clear on exit. You can also do more, but those are the ones I use.

You can do all that without extensions, and the controls are right there on the omnibar. In Safari, I can’t even do that with an extension (that I’m aware of).

Re: Switch from Chrome to Firefox

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Post by chiefalchemist » Thu, May 30, 2019, 10:05 PM UTC

I would use FF more (and GC less) if FF supported multiple users the way GC does. I have a Chrome instance for each project/client. That has its own bookmarks, history, password manager, etc. Everything is silo'ed and therefore neatly organized.