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Re: No to Chrome

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Post by digitarald »

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

DevTools member here: We have a more powerful target switching (hidden) in the toolbar but are also working to better expose JS context switching early next year.

Debugger's new threads panel also solves this partially when you pause in a thread.

Are your use cases extensions, workers or iframes?

Re: No to Chrome

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Post by davidgerard »

Pigo wrote: post #111
monkeynotes wrote: post #91

Losing Chrome doesn't necessarily stop you being tracked. If you make a vacuum it will be filled by someone else. I am not suggesting apathy but opting out just makes holes for someone else to fill. And as we have seen in the past competition is great but it quickly gets amalgamated behind the scenes, just look at the alcohol industry. All those brands look like healthy competition, but it's largely one parent compan…

Try buying glasses that aren't made by Luxottica. I really wish we still cared about monopolization.

Zenni.

Re: No to Chrome

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Post by giancarlostoro »

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…

> Firefox sync is working very well

Been using it for years and years, I never could adopt Chrome. First when it came out I tried it, but no adblocker, then when there was one, it was too crippled, my guess is that this was intentional since they're going back to crippling adblockers. Now we have network level adblockers which I think is the best approach.

I only use Chrome cause some kiosk-like application I'm developing will ship through Chrome (not Electron) / WebKit. Also my boss prefers to see it, so I demo with Chrome mainly, but I do all my real browsing on Firefox. I'm a geek / developer so I have Firefox and Chrome on every system I have. Except on Android, unless it's preinstalled for me, I wont get it.

Re: No to Chrome

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Post by saagarjha »

greggman2 wrote: post #141
IggleSniggle wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Apple Maps is now quite usable if you're on iOS...although it's no Waze.

Apple Maps meh. It doesn't work across devices. I look maps on my browser all the time. I need maps to appear everywhere and be sharable with the 80% of the planet not using iOS

You can share Apple Maps links with people; they'll open in Google Maps on devices that don't have Apple Maps.

Re: No to Chrome

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Post by saagarjha »

hakanensari wrote: post #74
IggleSniggle wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Apple Maps is now quite usable if you're on iOS...although it's no Waze.

Issues I have with Apple Maps: no cycling directions and, to a lesser degree, overall slightly-worse-quality and less intuitive visuals, like lacking first-person point-of-view or not updating starting point and estimates if I move when displaying directions. Of course, there's an element of me having gotten too much used to Google Maps in some of this.

> lacking first-person point-of-view

You mean street view? Apple Maps is slowly rolling out their version.

Re: No to Chrome

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Post by rkangel »

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.

That seems like an excellent mapper (and the isochrones are fun), but it doesn't look like it takes into account traffic conditions. I regularly you google maps just to see which of my commute options is faster that day, and if I have to drive in London any route finding system that doesn't take into account current traffic is next to useless.

Re: No to Chrome

#177

Post by techntoke »

alex_duf wrote: post #87
ossworkerrights wrote: post #24

I am quite satisfied with using chrome. Once there will be suitable alternative i will gladly move away from it tho, just a breath of fresh air.

Out of curiosity what makes Firefox or any other web browser fail to be a suitable alternative to you?

Firefox doesn't have hardware video decoding support for Linux, so watching videos on Firefox is terrible compared to Chromium.

Re: No to Chrome

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Post by digitarald »

azangru wrote: post #71

Chrome/ium is a wonderful web development environment. Can't see myself moving away from it any time soon.

Firefox DevTools member here. If you have tried them recently, I'd love your feedback on what's blocking you.

Re: No to Chrome

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Post by bmn__ »

Yajirobe wrote: post #101
exergy wrote: post #90

Earlier quoted context omitted.

To avoid deep binges into youtube. First of all, youtube thumbnails are cancer anyway, so blocking them is one step towards a Lower Information Diet. And the first step to being able to quit any addictions to youtube.

> youtube thumbnails are cancer anyway That's due to content creators, not YouTube.

It's not that simple.

YT pressures content creators into doing all sorts of stupid shit. They are made to think they don't really have a choice unless they want to risk their monetisation.

One memorable particularity was YT prompting the content creators to make thumbnail images with grimacing faces, which IMO is cancerous. yt/user/theCodyReeder talked about it, but I cannot find the video any more, this was about two years ago.

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