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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 »

vbezhenar wrote: post #88
tyingq wrote: post #75

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I believe so: https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBlock-issues/issues/338#iss... And: https://twitter.com/gorhill/status/1134127701583904770?s=20

Thanks. uBlock Origin has a unique author who does not bend with "acceptable ads" nonsense and it's a shame to lose that addon. Hopefully something similar will emerge. I think that Chrome developers have a good reason to abandon old API, because Apple did something similar with Safari approach to ad blocking. Also it's a good thing if more users will migrate from Chrome. While I, myself, use it and love it, I think…

Nothing similar can emerge for Chrome. You can't do hueristics or "right click to block" with a static declarative list. Also, the list is limited in size.

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

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Post by qplex »

bitexploder wrote: post #83
dguo wrote: post #82

The post briefly mentions multi-account containers[1]. I have loved using them and regard them as a killer feature for Firefox. Very few websites support account switching. Google is probably the best example, and even then, I don't really want to log in to both my personal and work Gmail within the same session. But containers effectively and cleanly enable multiple sessions for all websites. Like tabs so many years…

I literally run my browser in containers to achieve this. I still trust that more than letting the browser manage it. I call it ultra-private mode :)

A poor mans container (at least under unix-alikes) is simply running the program as another user with 'su' or 'sudo'.

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

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Post by bhauer »

octosphere wrote: post #118

I read somewhere that Chrome will be adding DoH (DNS over HTTPS) and I'm not sure if it's some experimental flag you toggle. I imagine they will be using 8.8.8.8 (which supports DoH). So now you are sending all your personal data to Google instead of Cloudflare :o But you can always use another DoH provider if you dislike Google or Cloudflare[0] I imagine any browser worth its salt will eventually switch over to DoH…

Since you can configure which DoH server your browser uses, I would guess Pi-Hole is going to implement (or already has) a DoH server of its own that will use configurable upstream DoH.

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

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Post by NilsIRL »

diafygi wrote: post #112
dguo wrote: post #82

The post briefly mentions multi-account containers[1]. I have loved using them and regard them as a killer feature for Firefox. Very few websites support account switching. Google is probably the best example, and even then, I don't really want to log in to both my personal and work Gmail within the same session. But containers effectively and cleanly enable multiple sessions for all websites. Like tabs so many years…

I love containers as well. Does anyone know when/if they'll be coming to Firefox for Android and iOS? Also, I really wish you would be able to specify which container you want in the Home button when using multiple urls for your default tabs. So this: https://gmail.com/|https://gmail.com/ Would become something like this: {container:personal}https://gmail.com/|{container:work}https://gmail.com/

I'm pretty sure Mozilla has abandoned Firefox on Android to work on Firefox Preview (code named Fenix).

Here is the github issue that tracks container support on Firefox Preview: https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/issues/1481

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

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Post by Medicalidiot »

I wish Firefox worked well with MacOS, but even with the newest version, which was intended to fix battery issues and such, it still is vastly inferior to Chrome. Pinch to zoom still does not natively work in Firefox. Battery life still sucks compared to Chrome. Video performance lags behind, even on non-Youtube sites. I wish Firefox was significantly closer, but I still find myself limited by it at the moment.

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

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Post by briffle »

dguo wrote: post #82

The post briefly mentions multi-account containers[1]. I have loved using them and regard them as a killer feature for Firefox. Very few websites support account switching. Google is probably the best example, and even then, I don't really want to log in to both my personal and work Gmail within the same session. But containers effectively and cleanly enable multiple sessions for all websites. Like tabs so many years…

I love containers, and use them heavily, but am disappointed they don't sync to all your computers like bookmarks and extensions. Every new machine, I get to start over on the 'always open this site in work container'

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

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Post by Dumblydorr »

lol768 wrote: post #23
eitland wrote: post #12

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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 interest…

So you downvoted me for sharing the fact that I have given firefox numerous chances and it has continued to not be what this thread promised? That's just hivemind in action, you're punishing someone for going against the HN grain. Besides, by downvoting those with issues, you're burying their comment away from others who may have similar issues or know the fix.

Downvotes should be for trolls and shills and low effort memery, not for legitimate dissent.

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