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Firefox Now Available with Enhanced Tracking Protection by Default

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Re: Firefox Now Available with Enhanced Tracking Protection by Default

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Post by whizzkid »

TazeTSchnitzel wrote: post #10
whizzkid wrote: post #4

It is funny how my browser preferences has changed over last 5 years. 2014 me as a developer had Chrome as number 1 browser for both development and all rest. Firefox once a month just to check cross browser compatibility. And Safari was just installed without me using it. 2019 me uses Safari for everything except development. Excellent power consumption and UX. Firefox for development. And lastly Chrome for all web…

Are there Chrome-only webapps you use that don't just work with a User-Agent switcher?

Most of them probably will work on other browsers with user-agent switching. But i do not want to hack it and risk having a problem in middle of my work. They can easily inject something that is only available in chrome and there goes my video conference :)

Re: Firefox Now Available with Enhanced Tracking Protection by Default

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Post by yitosda »

jacquesm wrote: post #15
dralley wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Setting aside possible hardware differences between the two, try doing a profile refresh, because that's messed up. I've also got a Firefox 52 installation lying around and the new version is noticably faster.

Interesting. Thanks for the tip, I'll give that a shot. Hardware differences are negligible, in fact the machine where FF is noticeably slower is the faster machine. Especially start-up is super slow, takes a couple of minutes at times.

Try to create a new profile to compare nondestructively: "firefox --ProfileManager"

I can confirm both that newer firefox is notably more responsive than old, and that I (or an extension, though I don't have many) managed to get a ff profile into a state where it had inexplicably bad performance, esp. unpredictable long freezes.

Re: Firefox Now Available with Enhanced Tracking Protection by Default

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Post by shandor »

iaml wrote: post #13
whizzkid wrote: post #4

It is funny how my browser preferences has changed over last 5 years. 2014 me as a developer had Chrome as number 1 browser for both development and all rest. Firefox once a month just to check cross browser compatibility. And Safari was just installed without me using it. 2019 me uses Safari for everything except development. Excellent power consumption and UX. Firefox for development. And lastly Chrome for all web…

Google meet works in firefox (at least dev edition).

It didn't about 9 months ago. Great if the situation has improved. Thanks a lot for the heads up, hopefully this works and lets me uninstall Chrome!

Re: Firefox Now Available with Enhanced Tracking Protection by Default

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Post by floatingatoll »

mostlysimilar wrote: post #19
tick_tock_tick wrote: post #17

Now if only the could fix firefox to not be the slowest and biggest battery draining browser on mac.

I believe this is related to using scaled resolution in macOS. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1404042 I was able to achieve way better performance by changing this to `true` in `about:config`: gfx.compositor.glcontext.opaque Another note, performance seems way better when changing the following to `true`: gfx.webrender.all gfx.webrender.enabled If anyone with deeper understanding of these options has an…

The WebRender team seems to be rolling out very gradually and is, if I remember a recent blog post correctly, restricting based on specific GPUs and specific platforms that are proven to work without e.g. crashing or breaking out various things (like window toolbars).

If you set these options, and then later on, you find that your Firefox is super buggy and won't render anything properly and has weird crashes, it could be because you set these options — and it might take hours or days to realize that.

(And then reverse them, somehow, assuming that gfx.webrender.all hasn't broken about:config!)

Re: Firefox Now Available with Enhanced Tracking Protection by Default

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Post by LamaOfRuin »

TazeTSchnitzel wrote: post #9

It sounds like this is similar to what Apple added to Safari two years ago ( https://techcrunch.com/2017/06/05/apple-adds-a-tracker-block... ), though I don't know the details. I will be excited for the day when Privacy Badger is an unnecessary extension.

It seems like that would be today? I'm pretty sure they both work off the same Disconnect maintained list.

Re: Firefox Now Available with Enhanced Tracking Protection by Default

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Post by zepearl »

shrikant wrote: post #12
TazeTSchnitzel wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Are there Chrome-only webapps you use that don't just work with a User-Agent switcher?

Most Google apps only just about "work" on Firefox. They're clearly optimised for Chromium and it shows. I use Firefox for all my browsing needs except for Google apps, for which I keep an install of Vivaldi around. I only really fire up Chrome if some stupid internal workplace app refuses to work on anything else. It truly is the new IE.

> It truly is the new IE

Funny, and true at least in the company I'm working for (officially supported browsers are primarily IE11 and optionally Chrome).

A colleague told me a few months ago that Firefox was not supported because it did not support some Windows "policies" (Windows or Active Directory? Not sure, no clue about that stuff) but that Firefox was going to support them soon... .

Re: Firefox Now Available with Enhanced Tracking Protection by Default

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Post by teddyfrozevelt »

LamaOfRuin wrote: post #25
TazeTSchnitzel wrote: post #9

It sounds like this is similar to what Apple added to Safari two years ago ( https://techcrunch.com/2017/06/05/apple-adds-a-tracker-block... ), though I don't know the details. I will be excited for the day when Privacy Badger is an unnecessary extension.

It seems like that would be today? I'm pretty sure they both work off the same Disconnect maintained list.

Privacy Badger uses heuristics to determine when a domain might be tracking you.

https://www.eff.org/privacybadger/faq#How-does-Privacy-Badge...

Re: Firefox Now Available with Enhanced Tracking Protection by Default

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Post by komali2 »

iaml wrote: post #13
whizzkid wrote: post #4

It is funny how my browser preferences has changed over last 5 years. 2014 me as a developer had Chrome as number 1 browser for both development and all rest. Firefox once a month just to check cross browser compatibility. And Safari was just installed without me using it. 2019 me uses Safari for everything except development. Excellent power consumption and UX. Firefox for development. And lastly Chrome for all web…

Google meet works in firefox (at least dev edition).

It didn't today for us.

Re: Firefox Now Available with Enhanced Tracking Protection by Default

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Post by zepearl »

jacquesm wrote: post #7

I have two main computers. One has for continuity reasons the old version of Firefox, the other the new one. The old version is so much more usable that I find myself using that computer much more frequently. It is rock solid with 100's of tabs open, all my extensions work and without silly restrictions on what they can and can not do and it uses a lot less memory. It's measurably faster too. I'm all for progress and…

Just for my understanding, any special reason to have 100's of tabs open?

Meaning: I basically have a mindset which as a programmer would say: "shall I spend effort trying to optimize my app for users that have 200 tabs open? Naaaa, I don't see a usecase for that to happen."

Re: Firefox Now Available with Enhanced Tracking Protection by Default

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Post by akerro »

whizzkid wrote: post #4

It is funny how my browser preferences has changed over last 5 years. 2014 me as a developer had Chrome as number 1 browser for both development and all rest. Firefox once a month just to check cross browser compatibility. And Safari was just installed without me using it. 2019 me uses Safari for everything except development. Excellent power consumption and UX. Firefox for development. And lastly Chrome for all web…

> It is funny how my browser preferences has changed over last 5 years.

Sure, we're still testing, if stuff works on IE10...

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