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Once you've kicked the car-driving habit, kicking Google Maps is easy...
People need wayfinding regardless of how you get around.
Does anyone use the Brave browser? I started a few days ago and it's a pretty interesting idea.
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...
OpenStreetMap had solid data, but my periodic attempts at finding a good app haven't been successful.
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There's also OpenStreetmaps
OpenStreetmaps is a good database with which to build navigation apps, but IMO it's very bad for actually getting directions and finding locations. It's kind of like saying you can use Wikipedia for subway navigation. On OpenStreetMaps.org, zooming over my area (NYC) and searching for "pizza" brings up the first 3 results in Tuscany Italy.
I’m quite satisfied with my move away from google products. Moved from gmail to protonmail. Chrome to firefox and search to ddg. Ddg isn’t perfect though and I find myself using !g tag more often than I’d like.
Obligatory mention of https://fastmail.fm/ I've been using the paid version (it's quite inexpensive) for over a decade now and it remains fantastic.
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In the meantime you can use invidio.us, which scrapes youtube, and lets you 'subscribe' and create playlists without having an account directly on youtube. NewPipe is an app for getting youtube without the youtube. And PeerTube is still young, but a place to check out and get involved with, if you want to see an alternative succeed.
> getting youtube without the youtube I think that's not really what people have issues with. The scariest thing about YouTube to me is that there's so much great content that's only on YouTube and there's not really an alternative. So if YouTube goes away for some reason, or Google decides to wipe all videos with < xxxx views, or Google decides to get rid of it for liability issues or other things there's nothing to…
It's tedious to even have to draw these distinctions at all, but I'm not saying it is the answer. A replacement is most preferable. In the meantime, here's something that accesses youtube without being associated with a youtube account or ads, which is one step better than being directly plugged in as we await a preferable alternative.
I may switch to Firefox at some point, but currently there's a long standing bug that breaks audio with multi-channel audio interfaces (FF does not adhere to the mac system output channel settings and instead defaults to channels 1-2)
The only site I need chrome to use is google meet, naturally. Which, if you've turned on automatic closed captioning and seen it perform speech-to-text with user attribution in real time, is horrifying by itself.
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Try buying glasses that aren't made by Luxottica. I really wish we still cared about monopolization.
Zenni.
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?
My use case is more of, I saw something in the chrome tools that I didn't recognize from FF. I don't do much js debugging beyond console logging. But I'm starting a PWA project and will be making a service worker, so sounds like this functionality might be relevant.
ps - enjoyed this Changelog podcast w/ Jason Laster of the FF DevTools team, https://changelog.com/podcast/247.
One of the things I like about google chrome is the omnibar: i can search within a website directly from the bar. For example, I can type amazon.com and then I can directly search. This also works for many of my company's internal websites. Can firefox do that?
Not sure what's built in, but you can definitely make it do that by right-clicking on a search box and making a shortcut. I have 'wp' for wikipedia, 'yt' for youtube, etc.