The one thing Chrome has which makes it 1000x better for me is the ability to search a site in the url bar itself by entering the url and pressing tab (?). For example I've used it on alternativeto.net a lot. I personally do use Firefox more anyway but it makes Chrome so easy when I do use it.
No to Chrome
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Re: No to Chrome
#312Earlier quoted context omitted.
>> ... 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.
Strangely I've never had a single use for this, next and back have been fine. What use case do you have where this is critical?
On a super long page (like forum post or comment thread, etc.), highlighting keywords on the scroll bar shows clustering of the find target and help you jump to the relevant conversation.
Re: No to Chrome
#313Chrome/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.
"Blocking" is not the right verb, but this is representative of a whole category of bugs in dev-tools that makes using FF for dev work very frustrating: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1553836 (
Cmd/Ctrl+A selects the entire panel content so it's hard to copy just a response payload for example), open for 7 months
I was tracking some similar ones related to displaying JSON in the Network pane that were open for years.
In my specific case, Chrome also displays EventSource events just like it does with Websocket frames, but Firefox treats that as a normal XHR, waiting until the very end to display the content. That is a little closer to "blocking" but also very niche, I guess
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#314Earlier quoted context omitted.
There is Mapquest (based on mapbox) it is surprisingly good and works well for nearly most of my use cases.
I live outside the US and struggle with a good mapping solution... I make a point to stick with Apple Maps on my phone but sometimes I am forced to resort to Google Maps to find some place I know exists but Apple Maps doesn't have it :/ So I just tried Mapquest and it had the same problem :( Google's mapping dominance outside the US is really only challenged by Bing maps... which I can't get on iOS. Nearest is HERE m…
I've used Here WeGo in several European countries and it didn't fail me yet. I would use OpenStreetMaps but I couldn't find any OSM app with public transport included as an option.
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#315Sold my soul to google long time ago but i'll join this crowd is that manifest 3 shit happens.
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#316Even 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 wish someone could create a viable YouTube competitor, seems like there's no one that has succeeded just yet.
This. An ad-free, recommendations-free, comment-free, subscription-free YouTube. Just a search bar with an advanced search feature. That way I can just watch what I need to, not what I want to.
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#317Earlier quoted context omitted.
Has firefox solved its long standing issue with the rendering of radio buttons?
Maybe. If you refer to a more specific issue, it's easier to give a definitive answer though.
As in, it doesnt render the buttons at all. Just leaves a blank area where the button is supposed to be. I wasn't detailed because I assumed everyone knew about it based on the many comments I encountered online while searching for a fix. Anyway, I only bring it up because thats what is preventing me from going full firefox.
Re: No to Chrome
#318Earlier quoted context omitted.
Strangely I've never had a single use for this, next and back have been fine. What use case do you have where this is critical?
On a super long page (like forum post or comment thread, etc.), highlighting keywords on the scroll bar shows clustering of the find target and help you jump to the relevant conversation.
Getting harder to do that with all the Infinite scroll going around, #NotAFan
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#319Safari is my default browser and it works for me, along with DDG. 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 an…
Do Apple/Safari offer great privacy?
Apple's marketing team says yes https://www.apple.com/privacy/
Jokes aside it's not perfect and there are different shades of "great" depending on what that means to you personally. But I do trust Apple over Google since their business model is not so aligned with mass scale data collection.