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Re: No to Chrome

#161

Post by Semaphor »

oefrha wrote: post #137
azdv wrote: post #76

Interesting, I just moved back to Firefox after many years of using Chrome. I have to admit, it has gotten a lot faster recently, Firefox sync is working very well, and the Firefox Android app is a pleasure to use (being able to install uBlock origin is a huge plus). Anything else I missed on Chrome was easily solved by an addon, or a small tweak on userChrome.css (customizing the browser interface by overriding its…

I can’t solve highlighting search results in the scroll bar, and apparently I search a surprising amount and am absolutely crippled without scroll bar highlighting, so I’ll stick to Chrome until I can’t (e.g. when content blocking is crippled).

There is an extension [0] that kinda (highlights are next to the scrollbar) fixes that. Just in case you didn’t know.

[0]: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/highlightall/...

Re: No to Chrome

#162

Post by sombremesa »

brianzelip wrote: post #153

Does anyone know the Firefox dev tools equivalent of Chrome dev tools "JavaScript contexts" drop down menu? I'm not sure how to describe it, but here are two screenshots from a tutorial where I saw it: 1. With mouse hovering over the drop down menu showing the displayed tool tip https://imgur.com/a/16lCRWg 2. With clicked on drop down menu showing the "javascript contexts" https://imgur.com/a/SPZuvWr

This button on the top right is the closest you get, I think:

https://puu.sh/EMtaR/0f9c88cbd9.png

Re: No to Chrome

#163

Post by jeegsy »

jstanley wrote: post #37
ropiwqefjnpoa wrote: post #25

Even if you have no issue with Google, this is still a good idea to encourage competition. Honestly, Chrome is not as good as it used to be anyway. For me, Google Maps and Waze are the hardest things to kick. And YouTube...

I use https://maps.openrouteservice.org/ and find it to be perfectly adequate.

Excellent product from my brief examination. Does this work on mobile?

Re: No to Chrome

#164

Post by oefrha »

Semaphor wrote: post #161
oefrha wrote: post #137

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I can’t solve highlighting search results in the scroll bar, and apparently I search a surprising amount and am absolutely crippled without scroll bar highlighting, so I’ll stick to Chrome until I can’t (e.g. when content blocking is crippled).

There is an extension [0] that kinda (highlights are next to the scrollbar) fixes that. Just in case you didn’t know. [0]: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/highlightall/...

I’ve tried every tangentially related addon at least twice and they’re all pretty terrible.

Re: No to Chrome

#165

Post by scholia »

quotha wrote: post #122

Does anyone use the Brave browser? I started a few days ago and it's a pretty interesting idea.

Search the page and you'll find several mentions of Brave.

What I want to know is why someone would pick Brave instead of the Epic Privacy Browser...

... though personally, I think it's far better to support Firefox as it's now the only viable alternative browser that isn't based on Chrome.

Chrome is now so dominant that people can just ignore open web standards and develop for Chrome instead. This is a Bad Thing.

Re: No to Chrome

#166

Post by AnIdiotOnTheNet »

ssn wrote: post #117

Contributing the diversity of the web is an important action that all of us should be committed to. Read Zeldman's "Browser diversity starts with us." http://www.zeldman.com/2018/12/07/browser-diversity-starts-w...

The battle is already lost. There's really only two serious options today for browser engines, which is even fewer than there are for OSs! And the reason is the same: it is far too complicated to create new implementations of either.

Re: No to Chrome

#167

Post by digitarald »

sparkywolf wrote: post #97
jmstfv wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I was using Safari up until they have yanked support for extensions. The web is unusable, outright hostile place without a proper script blocker. I can tolerate a lot of things, but browsing the web without uBlockOrigin isn't one of them.

Literally the day Firefox finds the way to be able to use all my passwords in keychain/suggest and generate new ones, I'm switching to it full time. I loved safari, but killing extensions is crossing a line.

Password generation landed in 69, right?

Latest on Keychain sopport is in https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=106400#c130 as WONTFIX due to macOS changes.

Re: No to Chrome

#168

Post by microtherion »

rusk wrote: post #134
jefftk wrote: post #94

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Firefox uses the Gecko engine, while Chrome uses Blink. The engines don't even have a shared ancestor.

“Originally” if I recall correctly, Chrome was a fork of firefox right? That is a long time ago though!

Chrome started out as a fork of Safari, or at least WebKit.

Re: No to Chrome

#169

Post by reportgunner »

arunmib wrote: post #68
reportgunner wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Try blocking all images on Youtube so you won't see thumbnails. It helps a ton.

Don't follow the point

It drastically reduces the occurence of me clicking another video.

If I want to see a video I have to read all titles and it gives me a chance to think if I want to stop watching.

An added bonus is that it takes me at least a couple seconds to find a video to watch when I open the front page and I don't end up subconsciously clicking the first interesting thumbnail.

PS: Also let me add that I'm using youtube signed off with no cookies in a browser that doesn't remember history so the front page is usually the same videos that I don't want to watch for a couple days or a week at a time.

Re: No to Chrome

#170

Post by oefrha »

observr9 wrote: post #160
oefrha wrote: post #137

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I can’t solve highlighting search results in the scroll bar, and apparently I search a surprising amount and am absolutely crippled without scroll bar highlighting, so I’ll stick to Chrome until I can’t (e.g. when content blocking is crippled).

>> ... highlighting search results in the scroll bar... This. I find any browser that doesn't do that to be unusable. The alternative, in long documents or source code, is to blindly hit NEXT and visit all locations where a search term is found rather than scrolling quickly to see the different context regions. I tried a plug-in or two but they were not nearly as functional as the native Chrome experience.

Glad I’m not insane, or not the only one insane. Whenever I read one of these highly-voted “I switched to Firefox and nothing’s degraded” post I wonder if I’m the only one searching on web pages, or if I’m the only one whose productivity is massively boosted by knowing where search results are located and how they are clustered at a glance. But then, modern code editors do tend to have this feature, so apparently it is important to a non-negligible audience.
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