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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 neogodless »

asadkn wrote: post #10

It's true. I have kept giving Firefox another chance over time but haven't been convinced. Recently, I tried Firefox again on Windows. And the experience is amazing indeed - faster, smoother, and with trackers blocking, very pleasant. And with strict protection, that's sort-of a builtin ad blocker. Something still feels off on MacOS even though the last version has been a massive improvement for MBP Retina.

Anecdote: I use it everyday at work on a 2015 MBP Retina, now on Catalina. No problems!

What feels off for you?

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

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Post by pidg »

asadkn wrote: post #10

It's true. I have kept giving Firefox another chance over time but haven't been convinced. Recently, I tried Firefox again on Windows. And the experience is amazing indeed - faster, smoother, and with trackers blocking, very pleasant. And with strict protection, that's sort-of a builtin ad blocker. Something still feels off on MacOS even though the last version has been a massive improvement for MBP Retina.

I gave desktop Firefox multiple chances over the course of 15 years, until that day in May when every extension stopped working.[1]

That said, the mobile version seems really robust.

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2019/05/03/a-glitch-is-breaking-all-f...

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

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Post by lol768 »

eitland wrote: post #12
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.

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

I downvoted the comment. I'm just not sure it adds anything useful to the conversation when it's not representative of the vast, vast majority of experiences that users have. It sounds like an anecdotal, isolated issue. I didn't post a top-level comment to say I've been using Firefox for over a decade without it crashing because it's just not remarkable or interesting.

I'd be more interested if some crash reports or BugZilla issues had been linked to substantiate the comment.

For what it's worth, I'd have downvoted a comment made in the same vein regarding Chrome too.

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

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Post by maxaf »

swebs wrote: post #14
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.

It’s not reason enough to support Google instead.

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

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Post by po1nter »

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…

This is just not true:

> Each time one opens a tab

you can customize to look exactly how you want it.

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

> Every week in my mailbox

Don't subscribe to newsletters you don't enjoy.

> When opening any other website and their popup is here to tell me « You’re protected! »

You get this the first time only or after an update with new features.

> 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.

I don't like the recommended extensions thingy but it can be disabled https://imgur.com/xjTG4N2

> When suggesting to use Pocket or any new idea

Any new idea? really? we should just stop innovation.

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

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Post by jakelazaroff »

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.

Two corrections. Brendan Eich made a public donation in support of Proposition 8 banning same-sex marriage in California. He also was not fired; he voluntarily stepped down.

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

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Post by integricho »

bootlooped wrote: post #16
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.

That day is already here my friend.

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

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Post by notamaan »

neogodless wrote: post #21
asadkn wrote: post #10

It's true. I have kept giving Firefox another chance over time but haven't been convinced. Recently, I tried Firefox again on Windows. And the experience is amazing indeed - faster, smoother, and with trackers blocking, very pleasant. And with strict protection, that's sort-of a builtin ad blocker. Something still feels off on MacOS even though the last version has been a massive improvement for MBP Retina.

Anecdote: I use it everyday at work on a 2015 MBP Retina, now on Catalina. No problems! What feels off for you?

Lack of media key control and pinch to zoom are the 2 that stop me from using Firefox (I use Brave instead)
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