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Re: I've started using Firefox and can never go back to Chrome

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Post by MegaDeKay »

aetherspawn wrote: post #3

I’m a Firefox user but I’m not sure that I can agree that it’s lighter than Google Chrome. I think Chrome is generally faster at everything. Chrome is also more stable. For some reason my Firefox randomly freezes once or twice a month and gets stuck in a crashing loop where only a reboot will fix it. But on principle I use Firefox whenever possible. I appreciate the effort that went into it. Still have to use Chrome…

I'd consider faster as a different thing than lighter. I think benchmarks show that the JS engine in Chrome is faster, but you pay a price in memory and processor to get that.

Personally, I have found FF really stable lately on both Windows and Linux and use it whenever possible as you do. And like you, I also need to fire up Chrome for the odd thing now and then.

Re: I've started using Firefox and can never go back to Chrome

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Post by kretaceous »

chrismorgan wrote: post #43
kretaceous wrote: post #28

Along with obvious ones like uBlock Origin working perfectly, etc., I have 2 other favorites: - Native reader mode - Native PiP mode for videos Yes, you can get extensions for this in Chrom(e/ium) but having these as a native feature is really nice. Things I want to see in Firefox: - Good/extensible keybindings - Tab groups - Tab search EDIT: How do I break sentences to newline in HN without really making a new parag…

> Good/extensible keybindings https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/manage-extension-shortc... is a little hidden, but gives you at least some flexibility. > Tab search https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/search-open-tabs-firefo... , I use % in the address bar very regularly.

> I use % in the address bar very regularly.

I use * for bookmarks and ^ for history but have never known about this. :)

Thanks!

And yes, I do use extension shortcuts. Can't imagine my life without Bitwarden or Tab Stash keybindings.

See https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1177108 to know what I actually meant.

Re: I've started using Firefox and can never go back to Chrome

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Post by GekkePrutser »

I don't have the impression that Firefox is so much more optimised. If anything I had the opposite impression (Chrome using less CPU than Firefox). Makes sense too because Google has a ton of money and Mozilla doesn't.

Still I mainly use firefox and on most computers it's the only browser I even have installed.

Re: I've started using Firefox and can never go back to Chrome

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Post by tapper »

binarymax wrote: post #44

I don’t intend to diminish the article itself, since yes ditching chrome and Google is a win for personal privacy. But I can’t ignore the irony of this article loading dozens of trackers. Like, is the cognitive dissonance that bad in web publishing? Do the teams writing the content not know about the way the publisher presents the data? Is this just pure hypocrisy? I’m at a loss.

Yeah that site is rideled with shitty trackers!

Re: I've started using Firefox and can never go back to Chrome

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Post by abyssphenom »

chrismorgan wrote: post #33
Hedepig wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I shall be the second you've met. Its likely more useful for those who tend towards many tabs open at once

Right now, I have 258 tabs open in my main window, of which I’m actively using at least a dozen, and will use another few dozen within a day or so. (Probably should go through and clean out a hundred or two.) Most of my family is some degree of tab hoarder as well (my eldest sister regularly has over a thousand tabs spread across a few windows).

Get the "tab stash" extension, you can stash your tabs instead of nuking them. That way you can go back a few months and find things that would be tougher to find through history or other means.

Re: I've started using Firefox and can never go back to Chrome

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Post by m-p-3 »

cm2187 wrote: post #59
kretaceous wrote: post #28

Along with obvious ones like uBlock Origin working perfectly, etc., I have 2 other favorites: - Native reader mode - Native PiP mode for videos Yes, you can get extensions for this in Chrom(e/ium) but having these as a native feature is really nice. Things I want to see in Firefox: - Good/extensible keybindings - Tab groups - Tab search EDIT: How do I break sentences to newline in HN without really making a new parag…

Also unblockable contextual menus (by pressing SHIFT). But on the downside no translate tool (though I read it is coming).

https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/firefox-translation...

Operates entirely offline.

Re: I've started using Firefox and can never go back to Chrome

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Post by 5e92cb50239222b »

kretaceous wrote: post #54
jackosdev wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you're into Vim, this is a fantastic extension for keybindings: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tridactyl-vim...

I should be clear. What I was referring to when I said `keybindings` is browser/developer keybindings that are not yet made configurable. There's been an open issue for 7 years asking for a shortcut key for the eyedropper[0]. The navigation between developer panels is also a bit tedious. The page focus key, F6, is not configurable. These are some instances I was thinking when I said I wanted good keybinding support.…

> focus key, F6

JFYI, Alt+D and Ctrl+L also work.

Re: I've started using Firefox and can never go back to Chrome

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Post by cfjgvjh »

cm2187 wrote: post #59
kretaceous wrote: post #28

Along with obvious ones like uBlock Origin working perfectly, etc., I have 2 other favorites: - Native reader mode - Native PiP mode for videos Yes, you can get extensions for this in Chrom(e/ium) but having these as a native feature is really nice. Things I want to see in Firefox: - Good/extensible keybindings - Tab groups - Tab search EDIT: How do I break sentences to newline in HN without really making a new parag…

Also unblockable contextual menus (by pressing SHIFT). But on the downside no translate tool (though I read it is coming).

The tool is already out and works pretty okay for the supported languages. (At least enough for me to find the page I'm looking for.)

Bonus points for it being offline.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/firefox-trans...

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