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Re: Switch from Chrome to Firefox
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> 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.
From reading a lot of mailing list and bugzilla posts I get the impression that they do care about Macs but the current (very old) renderer is just never going to play nicely with MacOS without a major overhaul, and that major overhaul is Webrender which has been in development for several years but has yet to land in stable because writing a new renderer is just a really large undertaking. Webrender and planeshift should bring a pretty huge performance and power efficiency improvement when they finally land in stable.
Re: Switch from Chrome to Firefox
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In Firefox you can find the search field on a page, right click, and 'add a keyword for this search'. Then you can just type that keyword in the address bar, for instance 'wp searchtermhere' for wikipedia.
That is great and all. Why do I have to type of the full keyword? tab completion on chrome is killer for this.
what does it mean full keyword? why would you want to use more than one letter? I have it set so that:
? - default search engine
w - wikipedia
t - dictionary
y - youtube
d - duckduckgo
Re: Switch from Chrome to Firefox
#774Are there anything that help with switching existing session? (I have like 400 tabs opened in 60+ windows.)
Re: Switch from Chrome to Firefox
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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…
While Comcast the company is evil, I loved their internet service. It was blazing fast and to this day was the most rock-solid ISP I've had for uptime. YMMV of course but for people in my area Comcast was the best (tho sometimes only) choice. (I did get really tired of playing the stupid intro/promo rate game with them tho).
Once they turned on their 250GB data cap tho it became far less useful since my wife/kids would stream several gigs a day or more of TV.
Re: Switch from Chrome to Firefox
#776I'd love to switch but the technique of having one browser import another's bookmarks, settings, and autofill just isn't good enough anymore. I have no fewer than 28 extensions installed on my Chrome installation and while not all of them are enabled all the time I do use them regularly. For me, the "cost" of switching to Firefox is, for each of these extensions, finding and vetting a firefox-compatible replacement.
Surprise! Chrome extensions work on Firefox! This was a big one for me as well, namely Tab Wrangler. https://www.howtogeek.com/346981/how-to-install-any-chrome-e... I can't recall if I used that Chrome Store Foxified but I do know that i'm using all of my chrome extensions and firefox and don't miss chrome at all.
Interesting, I didn't know about this. I'll have to give it a try!
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#777The 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?
I'm always doing web development with webrtc, having two browsers open simultanously? Not an option
Re: Switch from Chrome to Firefox
#778Google 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 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 :( !
Add-ons are a solution, though. Have you tried the FVD Speed Dial extension?
Re: Switch from Chrome to Firefox
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Same! Had Developer edition installed for testing, but switched fully today (Uninstalled Developer, installed Nightly). The fonts look nice, it's got wayland support on my Linux partition (on Fedora), and it's just really pleasant!
If you’re switching to full time use or Firefox, I cannot recommend going with Nightly; developer edition is a good choice.
Ah how come? It's being great to me so far! Back before the Chrome days, '00s and early '10s, every geek like me used to use Nightly, so I went with that.
Re: Switch from Chrome to Firefox
#780Can 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?
No, _we_ don't have to align on this and people can have more than one choice. Brave is open source and is trying to fix the web.