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The one thing that prevents me from switching to Firefox is the spell checker. Like many non-native English people, I'm constantly switching between languages when typing. Chrome is smart with that, and detects the right language sentence per sentence. Is there a way to have FF do this? Did I miss something?
Links for the password manager, "Firefox Lockwise" go through adjust, which appears to be a tracking/analytics/marketing platform. This is both through their website and by clicking through the Firefox UI menu. I guess it's harder to walk the walk yourself when the desires to track usage and analytics come from within your own teams. Check the links yourself over at: https://www.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/lockwise/ An…
To be fair, it's common practice to measure marketing campaign effectiveness. Mozilla doesn't hide that they share data to "Measure and support our marketing" "Campaign and Referral Data: This helps Mozilla understand the effectiveness of our marketing campaigns." "On iOS and Android: Firefox by default sends mobile campaign data to Adjust, our analytics vendor, which has its own privacy policy. Mobile campaign data…
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Thanks for the explanation. I found this extension that forces FF to use H264 instead: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/h264ify/ On my old MBP I'd rather consume more bandwidth than more more CPU.
Thanks for the link. On Firefox/Linux nvidia drivers, I don't see much difference in h264 vs VP9
Web Render might allow doing it properly, since the rendering is not on the CPU anymore.
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Battery life is my primary concern, and unless they release battery life benchmarks I’d be hard pressed to switch off of Safari.
Safari means no ublock, the web without is annoying.
The only two things I'm missing in safari to be hones are:
- A no-script extension or similar.
- Sync part of my work is on a no macOS machines I don't have safari there, so no sync. I partially overcome this with bookmaster for bookmarks, but I still missing tabs and read it later list. However, firefox doesn't have this later feature on desktop —and I don't why.
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> One thing that Safari is incredibly good at (and its' engineers are proud of) is the ability to reduce resource consumption for non-active tabs and windows to nearly zero. I understand this is rare, but I just have a very very hard time understanding what is so hard about this. Page not visible? Just stop it. Stop the layout engine, stop the javascript VM. If there was a transfer in progress, let it finish, a page…
> Page not visible? Just stop it. Stop the layout engine, stop the javascript VM. If there was a transfer in progress, let it finish, a page might get the callback when it's active again Contrats, you just broke the web for anyone doing one of the following: - listening to music in the browser. - having a webRTC chat with someone while browsing. - keep reading another tab while waiting for a page to load. And I'm pro…
Oh tell me about it. That's just about dead now. I mean, wasn't the point of multi tab browsing that I could do precisely that? Now I load Google Maps on my lethargic internet connection, go do something else for ten minutes, and come back and ... it starts loading when I open. This is on Firefox. Super sad.
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Game changer! Now from my POV Firefox is the best desktop browser, period. No caveats.
Is there a good transition path for someone who uses a lot of Google products? In particular, I use Chrome across all my devices, and I depend on the ability to search my history/recent tabs/etc from anywhere. Will Firefox give me the same ability? Is the transition literally just: Install Firefox everywhere and start using it instead?
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He gave money to a political campaign attempting to limit the right to marry to heterosexual couples. A little different from any old "Christian charity".
It's no different in any way whatsoever.
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Yea and they don't allow Firefox on iOS, even though Google allows it on Android and they too have their own browser!
firefox (and lockwise) are very much on iOS and very well integrated with the system.