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Using Firefox for a faster, calmer and distraction-free internet

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Re: Using Firefox for a faster, calmer and distraction-free internet

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Post by tyingq »

Is Chrome still planning on rolling out manifest v3, which kills uBlock Origin?

I imagine that would boost Firefox growth.

Edit: Answering my own question...yup, it's in canary as of November 1st. https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/software/google-begins...

Re: Using Firefox for a faster, calmer and distraction-free internet

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Post by eitland »

Dumblydorr wrote: post #2

I use firefox on ubuntu and the performance is terrible. Its constantly crashing, tabs crash individually, it hangs, launching memory heavy websites seems to crash it most often. When I switched to chromium the performance got a lot better.

I see you are downvoted and I think that is wrong.

It would however help a lot if you wrote in a style that made it clear that this was your personal experience.

I'm using an Ubuntu based distro myself (KDE Neon) and have no problems.

Re: Using Firefox for a faster, calmer and distraction-free internet

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Post by swebs »

alexis_fr wrote: post #9

Let’s enumerate how Firefox is bugging the user to tell him they respect his privacy: - Each time one opens a tab, - Every week in my mailbox, - When opening any other website and their popup is here to tell me « You’re protected! » - When one opens a website and FF asks « Do you want to install this privacy extension? », pointing at the facebook jail or the container feature. - When suggesting to use Pocket or any n…

>Also, coming from a company who fired his CEO for a private donation made 10 years earlier, claiming it’s a privacy-respecting company is rich.

I have to admit this does make me not want to support the Mozilla foundation.

Re: Using Firefox for a faster, calmer and distraction-free internet

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Post by po1nter »

Causality1 wrote: post #6

Distraction-free? Have they stopped filling the new tab page with revenue-generators like Pocket?

This is my new tab page: https://imgur.com/TpSzOCZ

Note that the search bar can also be removed. So yes, as distraction free as you want to make it.

Re: Using Firefox for a faster, calmer and distraction-free internet

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Post by bootlooped »

jnet wrote: post #7

I switched over to Firefox when I read that Chrome was limiting the functionality of ad block extensions and it's been a fantastic browser so far.

I'll switch back to Firefox the day that happens. I don't think it's a compelling reason until that day though.

Re: Using Firefox for a faster, calmer and distraction-free internet

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Post by swebs »

Dumblydorr wrote: post #2

I use firefox on ubuntu and the performance is terrible. Its constantly crashing, tabs crash individually, it hangs, launching memory heavy websites seems to crash it most often. When I switched to chromium the performance got a lot better.

It only crashes for me after it automatically updates. The devs set it to intentionally crash when you open a new tab. I don't know if that makes it better or worse really.

Edit: Here's the related bugzilla report

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1463960

Re: Using Firefox for a faster, calmer and distraction-free internet

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Post by drankula3 »

po1nter wrote: post #15
Causality1 wrote: post #6

Distraction-free? Have they stopped filling the new tab page with revenue-generators like Pocket?

This is my new tab page: https://imgur.com/TpSzOCZ Note that the search bar can also be removed. So yes, as distraction free as you want to make it.

Defaults matter. And currently, Firefox fills their new tab page with spam and self-promotion by default.

Re: Using Firefox for a faster, calmer and distraction-free internet

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Post by lovelearning »

I've been happy with everything about Firefox (on Xubuntu) from many years now. But when they released Quantum, the thing that bothered me a bit was not any feature or performance, but them removing curvy tabs for rectangular ones. Rather shallow of me, but we all have our UI quirks :). Luckily, Firefox UI is very customizable and somebody had already put in the effort [1] to provide curvy tabs. Just had to download it, change the RGB() values therein, and got back my preferred green curvy tabs. Just a silly thing, but might give somebody one more reason to switch to Firefox.

[1]: https://github.com/wilfredwee/photon-australis

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