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Those fixes still have to resolve the url. The best fix is using duck.com and getting off Google search.
Isn't is possible to resolve the URL locally? It looks like it's just part of the redirect URL in the example given above
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/skip-redirect...
Off topic, but every time I see an article like this I load up Firefox and try it out to see how it has progressed. I inevitably stop using it, and this time I decided to introspect and see why. It turns out that it's mouse wheel scrolling doesn't feel as snappy as other browsers, and for some reason it bothers me a lot. I'm going to try changing the scroll wheel settings and see if I can stick with it.
Wheel scrolling is awful in all browsers. The way to scroll is to use middle mouse button and move the pointer.
Only doing this you can accurately judge scrolling performance. I don't want 'snappy'. I want smooth.
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I find this annoying and noticed this change a year or so ago. Google used to just give you the (as far as I could tell) unadulterated link. In fact, at the time I wondered how/if Google were actually able to track how many people clicked the top link in the results, because it seemed to be the real URL and stayed real even when clicked. I figured they either had so much faith in PageRank that they didn't need to mon…
If you use uBlock Origin, add these (some reddit user suggested it, and it works) https://pastebin.com/M6Jah286
My friend who works in an adtech company: "Protip: Use Firefox instead of Chrome. We get very little data from Firefox users"
Even less data if you use uBlock Origin and possibly uMatrix (which is very high maintenance, but also reveals the utter insanity of the web). Without an adblocker the internet is such a slow heap of trash that I'd never go back to not using one. This is also one of the main reasons I use my iPhone so little, since it doesn't really have any way to adblock.
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Do people think Firefox doesn't work? I've noticed zero difference between using Firefox and Chrome and I've used both daily for five years or so.
Chrome offers this quiet magical feature called ‘tab to search’, Firefox allows you to make custom search key shortcuts but you need to make each of them. It’s just not as easy to use and is a killer feature that’s very fast/useful and missed for anyone who uses it and tries to switch away to Firefox. It’s the only thing that keeps pulling me back to Chrome, as well as many others I’ve seen discuss it in forums over…
I want to switch to Firefox, but of all things, its tab management is keeping me away. On my last try, I gave up after five minutes because I couldn't see all my open tabs at once (had to scroll). Does anyone know of an extension or setting I can use to force Chrome-like tab behavior, where all tabs are shown at once regardless of how small they become?
I want to switch to Firefox, but of all things, its tab management is keeping me away. On my last try, I gave up after five minutes because I couldn't see all my open tabs at once (had to scroll). Does anyone know of an extension or setting I can use to force Chrome-like tab behavior, where all tabs are shown at once regardless of how small they become?
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I've gone back and forth between Firefox and Chrome. It's just that Firefox is noticeably slower than Chrome (or at least was about a year ago). Even simply switching between open tabs around what feels like 0.5 seconds , whereas on Chrome, tab switching is instantaneous. I've run Firefox in multi-process mode (since that was an option), but even with it, in general it seems like Firefox gets noticeably slower than C…
Hi! We at Mozilla certainly don't see that! I'm at 815 tabs in this window alone and switching is instantaneous. Did you happen to file a bug report about this atypical behavior?
N.B. I'm currently a happy user of Brave as it has integrated AdBlock-style blocking, fingerprinting protection, and HTTPS Everywhere. I'm always evaluating my options as a user, though!
My friend who works in an adtech company: "Protip: Use Firefox instead of Chrome. We get very little data from Firefox users"
Even less data if you use uBlock Origin and possibly uMatrix (which is very high maintenance, but also reveals the utter insanity of the web). Without an adblocker the internet is such a slow heap of trash that I'd never go back to not using one. This is also one of the main reasons I use my iPhone so little, since it doesn't really have any way to adblock.
My concern with ad blocker proliferation is that it invariably leads to paywalled content. Which I’m sure most HN users are ok with, thanks to their 6 figures jobs, but I think it’s a bad thing overall.
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that's funny because in chrome i hate the scrolling because it doesn't have the middle mouse click autoscroll feature and all the "solutions" to fix that are janky webextensions.
Chrome has autoscroll here, on Windows. What platform do you use?