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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?
Honest question, where does one use a spellchecker in the browser ?
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Go back to this ancestor comment in this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21323832 We're not talking about password managers here, we're talking about spelling checkers . If a spelling checker can read passwords, then Firefox has a problem that that has nothing to do with spelling checkers or password managers. You cannot safely use any plugin. Now, it's possible that Firefox does indeed have this very se…
good thing then that I linked you to the very spell checker parent included to show you that it's flagged with that goddamn permission I'll put it here as well since you have missed it > https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/automatic-spe... you're not listening and you're having a very strong opinion on a topic you don't know about, which makes having a discussion frustrating, tedious and very unhackernews-…
What permission is that? The only permission I see is "Access your data for all websites." If that includes passwords, then FF has much bigger problems than not having native spell checking.
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good thing then that I linked you to the very spell checker parent included to show you that it's flagged with that goddamn permission I'll put it here as well since you have missed it > https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/automatic-spe... you're not listening and you're having a very strong opinion on a topic you don't know about, which makes having a discussion frustrating, tedious and very unhackernews-…
> that goddamn permission What permission is that? The only permission I see is "Access your data for all websites." If that includes passwords, then FF has much bigger problems than not having native spell checking.
> Access your data for all websites
> The extension can read the content of any web page you visit as well as data you enter into those web pages, such as usernames and passwords.
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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…
I mean, they act like all of the info Google takes in goes straight to ads, when a lot of it goes to it's analytics platform
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extensions are one lump sum offer away from becoming malware e: immaigne people down-voting facts https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/-particle-chr...
The same is true of Firefox itself, or indeed any piece of software.
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…
You just described basically all tracking and analytics. This is what they are blocking by default for everyone except themselves apparently.....
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The answer is simply that yes Safari breaks websites, but users are happy to make that tradeoff. It's common knowledge among web developers that browsers aggressively throttle background tabs so anybody who is designing a website that depends on it is misguided. I don't hear anybody complaining about Safari being too aggressive with background tabs, I do hear people complaining that Firefox uses too much battery. So…
Haven't people been complaining that youtube will randomly stop playing in the background on safari? I'm not so sure users are happy about that as you say.
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Containers. Better.
I do like the containers feature, but I'm not referring to cross-site sandboxing here.
Not mentioned in this article (although it's in the Release Notes [1]): the amazing work done regarding the macOS compositor. This should give pretty noticeable speed and battery improvements on Retina Macbooks. [1] https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/70.0/releasenotes/#new
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I just can't imagine Firefox will ever be performant as Safari. One is written for a single platform developed at the same company that develops the hardware and OS (I'm not trying to belittle the Safari team--it's kind of amazing what they do). The other is developed separately, must equally support at least 2 other OSes and has an expectation for supporting older setups. My problem is that Safari won't work for me…
I just can't imagine Firefox will ever be performant as Safari. Firefox has (for now at least) a huge leg up in terms of content blockers. IDK if that's enough to even out the energy consumption and performance, but it can't hurt.
For my use, I keep many many tabs and windows open. Most of the efficiency gains I see are from handling that better. I don't use desktop Safari heavily. I tend to keep it as the thing I use when I suspect adblockers are messing up content (it's easier than disabling adblock). On my iPhone I do use an adblocker and haven't noticed problems. When I do browse the web without an adblocker I quickly recoil and think, "do people really live like this??"