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Re: Switch from Chrome to Firefox

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Post by chx »

noisem4ker wrote: post #695
TheKarateKid wrote: post #596

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As a developer and power user, it's difficult for me to switch to Firefox. However for most average Joe's it's fine and won't make a difference, so I always install and recommend Firefox when I play IT guy for family/friends. Time to start doing this again like we did in 2005!! It worked then and it can now!

As a power user, I prefer Firefox to Chrome, due to its configurability and to the power of certain add-ons. One simple example: multi-row tab bar, thanks to custom CSS for the UI. It used to be even better before the mass murder of the now-called "legacy" extensions, but today we must settle for the less restricted offer. As a developer, I don't typically use browsers as debuggers or programming environments, so I n…

> It used to be even better before the mass murder of the now-called "legacy" extensions,

I can't even switch because one of the vital extensions for my workflow do not exist any more and the author of the Chrome equivalent doesn't want to port it. (I even offered a little money, I probably can't pay enough for an experienced developer to do the full port.)

Re: Switch from Chrome to Firefox

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Post by metafunctor »

om2 wrote: post #834
javagram wrote: post #403

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The safari dev tools used to be the exact same as chrome. Then they were redesigned and everything was moved to different places. I’m sure they still work fine, it’s just a learning curve to understand where everything was moved. It’s a matter of opinion but IMO the Firefox and chrome tools both have a more intuitive UI as well. Edit: just to be clear this is what I liked https://webkit.org/blog-files/inspector-eleme…

They've recently been re-redesigned, particularly the Elements and Network tabs. It would be interesting to hear your thoughts on the latest version.

I don't remember any recent redesigns. The Web Inspector has looked more or less the same since Safari 9 was released in 2015. [1]

[1] https://webkit.org/blog/5718/10-years-of-web-inspector/

Re: Switch from Chrome to Firefox

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Post by sjwright »

kinlan wrote: post #750
patrick5415 wrote: post #666

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

Biased reply - I work for Google. It depends on what you choose as your choice of technology, if you choose web components then you really can only really offer that same experience to users that have a browser that supports that API natively (without polyfills) which old Edge did not do. My understanding of this situation with yt was that our server side detection code was wrong based on an update in edge (or our UA…

Interpreting user agent strings is what amateur programmers do. I don't generally expect high standards from Google engineers (a whole other argument I won't entertain here) but that's still pretty tragic for a top-five website.

And besides, your claim is doubtful at best since Chromium Edge doesn't share any User Agent string elements with previous EdgeHTML versions. Your YT developers would have needed to be intentionally malicious to match "Edg/" as a trigger to downgrade the user experience.

Re: Switch from Chrome to Firefox

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Post by MultusSalus »

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…

This is a very powerful JS blocking extension I used for a while: https://jsblocker.toggleable.com/

Re: Switch from Chrome to Firefox

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Post by grimgrin »

crummy wrote: post #781
inferiorhuman wrote: post #704

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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.

How does the tab-to-search feature in Chrome negatively affect how you use the address bar? Are you entering URLs with tabs in them?

It doesn’t negatively effect it. I like it

I was highlighting what I missed when switching over

Re: Switch from Chrome to Firefox

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Post by Synaesthesia »

There’s one annoyance I have with Firefox right now and it’s the search bar. When I type the start of a frequently visited site then instead of jumping to that site it googles my half-word. Very annoying and different to Safari or Chrome.

Re: Switch from Chrome to Firefox

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Post by dang »

OldSchoolJohnny wrote: post #629
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 dont' understand why any non casual users uses Mac for anything these days unless they feel like paying a stupid tax.

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