Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

Switch from Chrome to Firefox

mozilla.org

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

811–820 of 1001 posts

Re: Switch from Chrome to Firefox

#811

Post by Aeolun »

gruez wrote: post #476
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…

>your new browser won't work with most internet video "most internet video"... by what metric? Hours watched? Catalog size? I find it unlikely that DRM videos outnumber non-DRM videos by any reasonable metric.

If you build a true libre browser, who needs DRM video anyway?

I guess you could call it a feature at that.

Re: Switch from Chrome to Firefox

#812

Post by latexr »

sovnade wrote: post #765
latexr wrote: post #719

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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…

Headless mode maybe, but for regular users I don't think there's many issues. I'm running firefox as my daily driver on Mojave with no issues whatsoever. Without seeing this thread, I didn't even know there were issues with the mac version.

> but for regular users I don't think there's many issues.

There are. As an example, complaints of Firefox on retina Macs abound.

> Without seeing this thread, I didn't even know there were issues with the mac version.

Read any recent HN thread on Firefox, and you’ll find more people exposing their issues with Firefox on macOS.

Re: Switch from Chrome to Firefox

#814

Post by alaskamiller »

perryprog wrote: post #557
konart wrote: post #534

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Extensions. Safari has almost none of them and I need them. And not just uBO. I have 10+ of them install and I'd say 8 of them are mandatory for me. I don't care about Safari being the fastest or battery life. Also dev tools are so much better in Fx and Chrome...

Safari user here—I personally have never used extensions much (probably my own loss), and on Safari I just have 1Password and uBlock°. Besides Safari's lack of extensions I find it to be more or less on par with Firefox, assuming you're in the Apple ecosystem. The dev tools feel extremely polished and feature complete. The only thing Safari's dev tools lack IMO is no fancy CSS support for things like grid or animatio…

LiveReload, Pocket, PageCapture, Privacy.com, OneTab/TabsOutliner, VideoSpeedController, SocialBlade all add significant value.

Safari's inspector always feels obtuse compared to Chrome or Firefox but maybe I'm just not used to it.

Re: Switch from Chrome to Firefox

#816

Post by reaperducer »

mikedilger wrote: post #732
inferiorhuman wrote: post #704

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not everyone is understanding what you're saying, as evident by the downvotes you're getting Well also I'd like the address bar to be a fucking address bar and not an address-but-sometimes-search bar.

Here are a few firefox settings to make your URL field behave only as a URL field: user_pref("keyword.enabled", false); user_pref("browser.fixup.alternate.enabled", false); user_pref("browser.urlbar.suggest.searches", false); user_pref("browser.urlbar.filter.javascript", true); You can put these in a "user.js" file in your profile directory if you don't have one already, or just set them in about:config

Thank you for perfectly illustrating why Firefox will not find the mainstream acceptance of other browsers.

Re: Switch from Chrome to Firefox

#817

Post by damnyou »

stephenr wrote: post #679
dfabulich wrote: post #515

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Safari supports multiple user profiles because it’s running on a Unix operating system that provides full user accounts. If you’re switching browser because google is breaking ad blocking, it absolutely makes sense to switch to one with a blocking technology that the browser vendor specifically added, rather than grudgingly allowed. It also makes sense to use a browser where the blockers don’t get access to what you’…

I seriously did not expect the terrible "macOS is a CERTIFIED(C) UNIX(R)(TM)" argument to be deployed in this manner.

Re: Switch from Chrome to Firefox

#818

Post by damnyou »

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.

Because sensible people don't deliberately handcuff themselves to trillion dollar megacorps. How can I get my Safari bookmarks on my Android phone?

Re: Switch from Chrome to Firefox

#819

Post by terrycody »

I will tell my story.

I use Chrome for years, but recently a new update(I dunno the exact version) lags my laptop so much that it can not even used normally, everything delay several seconds, I spend several days and finally found out its the Chrome did this to my computer.Note: I am using an old laptop, but its still solid.

So I have to reinstall Chrome, I have no choice. Then I give firefox a try, to my surprise, with just a few of clicks, all my bookmarks and cookies are all ported to firefox seamlessly, very comfortable feature I'd say.

So yeah, if you are using old PC like me, u may feel lags when using new Chrome browser, and I suggest u to switch to Firefox, I DOES work!

Re: Switch from Chrome to Firefox

#820

Post by RussianCow »

Aeolun wrote: post #810
RussianCow wrote: post #645

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sure, but many of those Xfinity customers don't have any reasonable alternatives, whereas there are now a handful of players in the video streaming space. If someone doesn't like Netflix, they can easily cancel their subscription and switch to another service. So even though you're partially right, the subscriber count in this case is a pretty good proxy of how good the service is.

I don’t think it works like that any more. The services used to have more or less the same catalog, but it’s become more and more broken up. To get everything you need to subscribe to 4+ services, and if you drop Netflix, you lose a hefty part of their catalog because it’s on none of the others.

I guess when someone says "it's terrible", I assume that includes the catalog and we're not just talking about the UI or something like that. You can't say Netflix is terrible, and then in the same breath praise their selection. The catalog is part of the product, especially with each service making originals now.
Post reply on HN