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

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

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Post by crtasm »

koonsolo wrote: post #269
koonsolo wrote: post #169

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Same here. Plus, I saw today that firefox doesn't support the file API while Chrome, Safari and Edge do. If you look at the usage numbers, it just makes no sense to support this browser anymore.

Wow, stating facts gets you downvoted. Nice one! Here are the facts: - multiple game devs have issues with Firefox - Firefox doesn't support File System Access API https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/File_System... , other browsers do. - Usage of Firefox is very low Live with reality people.

> If you look at the usage numbers, it just makes no sense to support this browser anymore.

It seems the reality is that people disagree with your opinion.

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

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Post by pessimizer »

invalidname wrote: post #21
haunter wrote: post #13

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Total opposite experience. At least under Windows Chromium is perfectly fine with 150-200 tabs but FF starts falling apart

Odd. I've been on Mac for more than a decade so no idea. Notice that this only became a thing with Quantum so if you used an older version of FF it wouldn't apply.

Pre-Quantum Firefox handled more tabs better.

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

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Post by the_pwner224 »

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

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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.…

Thanks for the mention of F6, I had been looking for a page focus key for a while to restore focus after switching to the address bar.

I've discovered that "ctrl-f esc" also works; focus goes back to the page when the search bar closes. Convenient if you have capslock remapped to escape.

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

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Post by mbrubeck »

zahma wrote: post #291

Is there really a killer feature of Chrome that justifies its use over FF? I've been using Firefox and have never been disappointed with it. I always just assumed that if you wanted privacy, it's better to use Firefox over Chrome, Safari, or Brave.

I'm a longtime Mozilla contributor, so I’m probably biased toward Firefox, but there are still a few Chrome features that I wish Firefox had, like:

- Easier to create and use multiple profiles (somewhat mitigated by Mozilla's multi-container add-on)

- Google Translate integration

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

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Post by pessimizer »

zamadatix wrote: post #195
chii wrote: post #129

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there's an easy way to fix this problem: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/customizing-firefox-usi... firefox supports a policy.json to turn off upgrade nagging via the `ManualAppUpdateOnly` key: { "policies": { "ManualAppUpdateOnly": true } }

As a heads up though as suggested by the name "ManualAppUpdateOnly" doesn't just disable the notification it completely disables the entire auto-update system. Not only will you not get notifications about updates you will not get updates at all until you remember to check the about dialog or manually download them. This is intended for environments that have managed packages where the browser doesn't need to update…

> Not only will you not get notifications about updates you will not get updates at all until you remember to check the about dialog or manually download them.

What if you feel like you can handle this not particularly difficult problem?

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

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Post by INTPenis »

I've always been pragmatic about my browser choice, not prioritizing performance but rather security, configurability and open source contribution. So I used Firefox since the very first Phoenix beta because I came from using the Mozilla browser.

Only for a short while in the early 00s my poor laptop couldn't runt FF with 256M RAM so I had to use Opera. I had to enter PF rules to make the stupid ads in the UI disappear. But within probably 2 years I had a new laptop and was back with FF.

The main sell in the early 00s was that afaik noscript could not function in Chrome or Opera due to the design of its web plugins, so FF pretty much had a monopoly of the paranoid like me.

And by now I just feel that any privacy enhancements can be done with a custom user.js so I see no reason for any other browser than the upstream FF.

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

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Post by krolden »

zahma wrote: post #291

Is there really a killer feature of Chrome that justifies its use over FF? I've been using Firefox and have never been disappointed with it. I always just assumed that if you wanted privacy, it's better to use Firefox over Chrome, Safari, or Brave.

Chrome works better with google crap, by design. That's about the only reason I ever use chromium.

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

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Post by system2 »

zahma wrote: post #291

Is there really a killer feature of Chrome that justifies its use over FF? I've been using Firefox and have never been disappointed with it. I always just assumed that if you wanted privacy, it's better to use Firefox over Chrome, Safari, or Brave.

If you are using gmail, syncing browsers with everything in them is very easy. I do feel like the extension library of chrome is also larger.

FF is sluggish to open first time and if there is an update, god help you.

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

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Post by PossiblyKyle »

zahma wrote: post #291

Is there really a killer feature of Chrome that justifies its use over FF? I've been using Firefox and have never been disappointed with it. I always just assumed that if you wanted privacy, it's better to use Firefox over Chrome, Safari, or Brave.

Its only killer feature to me is that websites are designed and tested with a Chromium-first attitude. As a regular FF user I might stumble upon a website that’s quite buggy or straight up doesn’t work, which forces me to use Chrome for that specific website. Other than that I don’t really feel like there’s anything, and Edge is currently a better Chrome than Chrome anyway.

EDIT: and for the record, I’m still upset Microsoft didn’t choose FF and willingly increased Google’s grasp

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

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Post by gnlrtntv »

fuckcensorship wrote: post #128
GekkePrutser wrote: post #88

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But also builtin cryptoscams :(

Out of curiosity, do you have an issue with crypto as a whole or is there something about Brave’s BAT in particular that you dislike?

Aside from some of the common critiques of purpose-oriented blockchain tech, I think there's a question with BAT of if creating a token-based ecosystem with this thing actually creates economic incentives that align with the overall improvement of our society, or if it merely contributes to the existing problems that have enabled intrusive ad tech in the first place.

On a small scale, paying to be able to take away ads (or getting paid to see them — ultimately, the difference is negligible, given how pervasive ads are in our lives) is a nice experience to have. But it has a lot of implications long-term on our society, given ads are the primary way we finance pretty much all information we have access to these days.

How does this affect upward mobility? If a person in poverty wants to get out of poverty by learning a difficult skill, getting access to the information and learning it will be a longer, more difficult process for them. They will be interrupted more often than wealthier people, they will have less time to dedicate to doing the task at hand than wealthier people, etc.

I personally think it's difficult to get excited about any system that wraps the way we gate access to information in our society without considering this element, because the ability for people to move up in life is really one of the great promises of the internet, and nobody should lose that.

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