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

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Post by gtyras2mrs » Fri, Nov 15, 2019, 5:17 PM UTC

po1nter wrote: post #179

gtyras2mrs wrote: post #176

Does anyone know of a working Picture-in-Picture plugin for Firefox? Safari and Chrome both have working PiP - which still keeps me switching back to them when I want to play something in the background.

I'm on the Firefox Developer Edition and it supports this natively. You can see how it works here https://hacks.mozilla.org/2019/07/testing-picture-in-picture...

I remember reading it back in August - however I should have mentioned that I specifically needed this for MacOS. Does it work for MacOS? The post indicates that it's limited to Windows.

On my Windows desktop, I already use Firefox as I have multiple monitors - so PiP wasn't much of a concern.

However it's a feature that I sorely miss on the small screen of my Macbook Air.

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

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Post by mgalgs » Fri, Nov 15, 2019, 7:33 PM UTC

I've ditched Chrome completely in favor of Firefox (desktop and mobile). I've been surprised about Firefox's speed, but not in a good way... After all the hype I've been seeing about Firefox getting faster I've been disappointed by how sluggish it feels on my system (Linux, 20 CPUs, 32GB RAM -- yes, this is my personal dev machine :D). Chrome is still faster, but I'm sticking to FF because I believe in their mission.

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

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Post by mkd1964 » Sat, Nov 16, 2019, 3:50 AM UTC

icelancer wrote: post #341

Rotareti wrote: post #330

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think you have two options then: A) (if possible) migrate away from the services you mentioned. B) lock-in deeper and deeper with the biggest advertising company on the planet.

B) is my choice and I have made peace with it. Generally speaking, the HN crowd vastly overstates how important any one person's data is and/or vastly overestimates the ability to get out of this future anyway.

That's the attitude of most everyone, and hence the reason it won't change. But IF.. (just if) a few hundred million people decided to ditch Chrome and Google's "services" (data collectors in disguise), Google might be forced to take notice.

On the other hand, never say never to Google's dominance going out the window. They may find themselves in very deep trouble in the not too distant future.

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

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Post by zelphirkalt » Sat, Nov 16, 2019, 1:35 PM UTC

microcolonel wrote: post #336

zelphirkalt wrote: post #278

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Deactivate pre-loading of websites the website you look at links too and then talk again. Chrome uses all kind of tricks to trick you into thinking it is the faster rendering browser. Deactivate the gimmicks and then look at a comparison. There wont be much difference there. Also I'd rather have my browser have a low memory footprint, than using GBs of more RAM, just to load a page a fraction of a second faster. Stil…

> Deactivate pre-loading of websites the website you look at links too and then talk again. Chrome uses all kind of tricks to trick you into thinking it is the faster rendering browser. Deactivate the gimmicks and then look at a comparison. Why would I hobble interesting performance features of the browser just to compare it unfairly to a browser which lacks those features, or doesn't implement them properly? FWIW I…

One: Ungoogled-Chromium still adds to web engine mono culture, so that wont be a good solution.

Two: I did mention GNU IceCat, for those worried about Mozilla. So all your points about "Google is not worse than Mozilla" drip off like raindrops off a raincoat.

Aside from that, I do not see Google implementing privacy enhancing features in their browser, nor do I see it happening in Ungoogled-Chromium. Mozilla developers on the other hand did provide us with some tracking protection features during the last months. So I am not buying what you are trying to sell me.