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Google Just Gave 2B Chrome Users a Reason to Switch to Firefox

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Re: Google Just Gave 2B Chrome Users a Reason to Switch to Firefox

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Post by defined »

behnamoh wrote: post #170
torben-friis wrote: post #140

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I just wish they finally fixed the bug that makes it unusable for me and thousands of other users using macbooks with resolution set to "more space"... I can't count how many people in my office I've had to help after their macbook randomly starts heating and turning fans to max power, it's always that they started using firefox. I've been checking the tickets associated with the issue (mainly [this one]( https://bug…

It's not just that. Exporting Passwords from Chrome to FF is impossible in macOS. Not a day goes by that I don't have to enter my password for a website. Thus, switching to FF actually means re-entering tens of passwords manually (given that you do remember the passwords, otherwise you'll have to go to Passwords Manager in Chrome and see the saved passwords).

Might it be worth using a password manager instead, like 1Password, or KeePass and its variants?

Re: Google Just Gave 2B Chrome Users a Reason to Switch to Firefox

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Post by mustaflex »

bad_user wrote: post #35
chank wrote: post #34

Tried out Firefox again a few days ago. Still prefer chrome. If add blocking becomes an issue with chrome, I'll definitely make the switch because of that and just hate it or go back to safari and hate it just as much

What don’t you like about Firefox? Speaking as a FF user I have a hard time using Chrome too. In other words you get used to what you use and FF is a decent option.

I also made the switch but firefox is definitely slower than chrome and sometimes it borders on being unusable on some website where chrome's performance was spotless.

Re: Google Just Gave 2B Chrome Users a Reason to Switch to Firefox

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Post by gpm »

PascLeRasc wrote: post #108
sanxchit wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not the original commenter, but Firefox has noticeably poorer performance on my MacBook pro 2018, especially on react-heavy sites like the AWS Console or Twitch.tv

Firefox has awful performance on nearly any web page for me (2014 Mac). Even its own settings page alone puts a core at 100%. I can get past bad font rendering and giving up pinch-to-zoom and not reading PDFs in the browser, but I can't give Firefox half my battery life. I'll use it on my work PC but it's still a huge waste of electricity.

Huh? I read all my PDFs in firefox.

Re: Google Just Gave 2B Chrome Users a Reason to Switch to Firefox

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Post by InafuSabi »

I've downloaded firefox ESR and am migrating my important addons to firefox equivalents. Up to now all of them, apart from _authy_ (a crucial one) have native versions.

For me extentions like _uBlock Origin BitWarden_ & _LastPass_ are vital

Now I have to look if the latest incarnations are not as CPU hungry as the ones that forced me to stop in 2013.

If it is good on this ageing #DAW, I have my response to google's FU to us, their users

Update: Firefox still uses much more CPU on my machine, that will create a problem when google pushes their crap through our throats

Re: Google Just Gave 2B Chrome Users a Reason to Switch to Firefox

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Post by hnhg »

classicsnoot wrote: post #155
jm4 wrote: post #128

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It’s not mainstream media. It’s a contributor site. You can pay some money and get one of your own. You can post whatever you want on there. They offer to do a little bit of editing and proofreading to make it look professional before it goes online. There is no fact checking. These contributor sites are essentially blogs that carry the credibility of Forbes even though they don’t deserve it. I see contributor sites…

What are the "qualifications of a journalist?" They are people with opinions that write stuff. If you think journalism and writing departments are teaching rigor and factual veracity, you are mistaken. I've only come to it recently, but Gell-Mann Amnesia Affect is something to be aware of and avoid. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gell-Mann_amnesia_effect?wpr...

Try to get a job at a major news outlet without recognised journalism qualifications.

Re: Google Just Gave 2B Chrome Users a Reason to Switch to Firefox

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Post by Riverheart »

velox_io wrote: post #156
the_duke wrote: post #3

Great to see mainstream media picking this up and giving Firefox some exposure. With Microsoft switching to Chromium, Firefox is now the only viable (cross platform) alternative. FF gaining back a solid amount of market share is critical for the browser ecosystem in the future. (Personally I switched back to FF after the first Quantum release, which brought performance back on par with Chrome. On mobile, the ad block…

Wow, I never knew/ expected MS to switch to Chromium. Given how much MS boasts about Edge's battery life over Chrome. Hopefully Google leaves a workaround to enable ad-blocking. Otherwise, I will switch, it will be a bit of hassle, but I'll drop them none the less. No ads & lower power usage would be nice though. https://www.theverge.com/2019/4/8/18300077/microsoft-edge-ch...

They have Github developers already deep in Chromium for Electron which is powering VSCode so rather than maintain two separate teams, better to focus everybody on Chromium.

Re: Google Just Gave 2B Chrome Users a Reason to Switch to Firefox

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Post by keymone »

nsomaru wrote: post #183
keymone wrote: post #100

just switched two days ago. it's been nice ten years, see you google. my main hurdle was absence of decent support for multiple isolated profiles in firefox and it's still not great but multi-account containers are good enough for now.

What limitations have you found with containers? I use them all the time and they work great especially when you set domains to open in a container by default. Did chrome have better support for that?

cmd+t opens new tabs in default profile, i'd like to either be able to assign which profile is default for each window (have a "work" window with some tabs, "personal" window with other tabs, etc) or for container to be inherited from current tab.

i've also tried native firefox profiles but they are somehow too isolated. chrome has this behavior where clicking a url outside the browser would open in new tab in most recently used chrome profile window. in firefox it's always the first(?) profile window that you opened.

Re: Google Just Gave 2B Chrome Users a Reason to Switch to Firefox

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Post by outadoc »

torben-friis wrote: post #140
the_duke wrote: post #3

Great to see mainstream media picking this up and giving Firefox some exposure. With Microsoft switching to Chromium, Firefox is now the only viable (cross platform) alternative. FF gaining back a solid amount of market share is critical for the browser ecosystem in the future. (Personally I switched back to FF after the first Quantum release, which brought performance back on par with Chrome. On mobile, the ad block…

I just wish they finally fixed the bug that makes it unusable for me and thousands of other users using macbooks with resolution set to "more space"... I can't count how many people in my office I've had to help after their macbook randomly starts heating and turning fans to max power, it's always that they started using firefox. I've been checking the tickets associated with the issue (mainly [this one]( https://bug…

Oh god! That's why my battery life is better since switching back to the standard resolution. What an awful bug.

Re: Google Just Gave 2B Chrome Users a Reason to Switch to Firefox

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Post by Yoric »

ljm wrote: post #15
the_duke wrote: post #3

Great to see mainstream media picking this up and giving Firefox some exposure. With Microsoft switching to Chromium, Firefox is now the only viable (cross platform) alternative. FF gaining back a solid amount of market share is critical for the browser ecosystem in the future. (Personally I switched back to FF after the first Quantum release, which brought performance back on par with Chrome. On mobile, the ad block…

I hope to see Firefox eventually providing an embeddable framework, considering that Chromium isn't just monopolising the web browser space... it's spreading into desktop applications through Electron. Left unchecked, Google will manage to poke its fingers into every pie within reach. It seems like the ideal solution of using the OS's native web toolkit hasn't been successful so far. So the next best offering (aside…

On Android, Mozilla offers GeckoView.

I don't think that there's a desktop offering at the moment. There used to be quite a few (XULRunner, Prism, etc.) but they all died from lack of love.

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