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What do you guys think about Brave? I use it and I think it's actually better that firefox in terms of speed and other features.
Advertising is inherently at odds with productivity (ads waste your time) and potentially privacy (for better ad targeting), so I wouldn't recommend it.
Under the hood it's just a reskinned Chromium so the battery life & performance concerns remain.
And which desktop OS has the largest usage share among the developers of Firefox?
(I want to know because I am undecided on which OS I will be using in the future. By "run best" I mean the fewest bugs and the fewest instances of behavior that would surprise an ordinary user.)
The web feels faster and their Devtools browser has a lot of baked in features
Try it!
This post actually made me switch to Firefox. The set up process was very smooth. Importing all my settings from Chrome just worked. I feel safer already. Is it just me or does the scrolling feel a bit different in Firefox? I am running Firefox on a Macbook from 2019 using the touch pad. Thanks OP!
My only major gripe is that FF is terrible if you write in more than 1 language.
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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
- Refresh requires two clicks instead of the now-standard pull down (like Chrome)
- Text resizing is _all_ _over_ _the_ _place_. I go to Reddit and the text shrinks down to size 3 or something. There is no clear way to make any adjustment whatsoever. Compare to Chrome/Chrome-clone Brave's very easy text resizing.
Why do I love firefox on android?
- Adblocking adblocking adblocking. Get rid of the absolutely garbage ad experiences that clutter up the majority of .com sites
- Extensions
- Zoom is easy versus other browsers
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'
Beyond that - for container users I recently started using "Temporary Containers" [0] and it's an awesome use case for disposable containers where no browser interaction is associated. It's a fantastic use of containers.
[0] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/temporary-con...
I've been exclusively using Firefox for browsing and developing for a few years now and I've never thought of looking back. The customization and privacy features plus the possibility of having multiple profiles / accounts side by side in the same window are now a must-have for me.
It feels like the people who make Firefox dev tools don't use it to develop. Prime example every dev has: clear all data from site for fresh start. 1 button in Chrome - Clear site data. Meanwhile in Firefox, enjoy clicking through, checking & deleting from a minimum of at least 5 sections.