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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 raffraffraff »

bee_rider wrote: post #481
raffraffraff wrote: post #107

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Containers is the big thing imho. Having two bookmarks that go to different Gmail accounts, with each opening in a different container tab, and each container being logged into just that account. Same for AWS accounts.

Is the purpose of using two bookmarks to open the container and gmail simultaneously? I just use one bookmark, two containers, each is only logged on to one gmail account.

One bookmark opens one account, the other opens the other account. I use an extension to match URLs to containers. So it's possible to have bookmarks "gmail [work]" and "gmail [personal]" that open in the right container, already authenticated.

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

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Post by BuyMyBitcoins »

Lev1a wrote: post #490
BuyMyBitcoins wrote: post #465

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Mozilla may be a non-profit but there’s a saying: “non profit doesn’t mean they don’t make money”. It’s not too difficult to disable, but Firefox does push suggestions by default and has a revenue sharing agreement with Pocket.

> Firefox [...] has a revenue sharing agreement with Pocket "Mozilla Corporation" bought Pocket in 2017. Per https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pocket_(service) : > On February 27, 2017, Pocket announced that it had been acquired by Mozilla Corporation, the commercial arm of Firefox's non-profit development group. Mozilla staff stated that Pocket would continue to operate as an independent subsidiary but that it would be…

I stand partially corrected! Didn’t realize they were acquired but they are still using pocket for revenue.

In fact, this little nugget supports my original post: “the commercial arm of Firefox's non-profit development group”

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

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Post by imiric »

GekkePrutser wrote: post #141
fuckcensorship wrote: post #128

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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?

I think crypto in general is disastrous for our environment right now, and has offered none of the self-control finance benefits it promised due to ever more regulation (the EU is soon planning to ban private wallets, you can only legally host money on exchanges then, which basically means we're full circle to the old banking system). All this has been precipitated by the frantic speculators looking for a quick buck.…

> It's the BAT idea in particular that I don't like though. It's just a new, more indirect, payment scheme for advertisers.

The advertising monetization model can't be stopped dead in its tracks. The fact is that it's the simplest way for content providers to generate revenue, and that won't change overnight. What BAT is attempting to do is establish a market between content consumers and providers. The BAT wallet is funded either by attention, i.e. consuming ads, or by directly purchasing BAT. In that sense, the advertising middle-man could eventually be removed from the transaction.

Note that I don't use Brave, nor particularly care about the company, but BAT is the best idea that works in practice to overcome the ad business model. It should be celebrated for that, and we need more such projects. We also need them to be friendly for content providers to integrate in order to boost adoption.

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

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Post by joveian »

kretaceous wrote: post #165
bzxcvbn wrote: post #150

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Not sure this will resonate with everyone, but Edge has both of these features built-in :).

It definitely does with me. I used Edge when I was using Windows and I liked it! I went back to Windows after almost 2 years for work and MS has managed to bloat it too. Don't understand why I need a Math solver. Edge bar is annoying. Favorites and bookmarks are 2 separate things? I turned them all off obviously but defaults matter.

If you mean a basic calculator in the URL bar, Firefox has that too (also a simple units converter) but off by default. They do that because people use search engines for that kind of stuff. The implementation (at least the Firefox one) is quite simple.

browser.urlbar.suggest.calculator

browser.urlbar.unitConversion.enabled

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

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Post by joveian »

kevincox wrote: post #431
lstamour wrote: post #337

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It’s not built-in, but you can get Google Translate browser extensions, and these are promoted on Firefox marketing pages. Also, there’s an offline translate extension being worked on in open source: https://blog.mozilla.org/mozilla/local-translation-add-on-pr...

You can also make a bookmarklet that loads Google Translate into the page. It isn't quite as nice as the auto-detect in Chrome but very close. With the new offline translation support I actually prefer this setup as I can try the local translate first, then if the quality is bad or the language isn't supported I can make the decision if I want to upload the page to Google.

I use the Right Click Search addon, select text, and "search" with Google Translate.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/right-click-s...

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

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Post by js8 »

alex_sf wrote: post #241
js8 wrote: post #227

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It's a bad argument, because validity of a critique is not predicated on critic's life choice. It's like arguing that you cannot critique a movie because you have never made one.

It's not a critique of the idea alone, it's forcing it into context. If we take a common example of how I've seen this play out: A: iPhones and Apple are evil because they require child slavery. B: But.. you own an iPhone? A: Oh so I'm just supposed to go live in the woods? I don't think B supports child slavery. B is pointing out that even people espousing this idea participate in the system because the alternative…

> It's not a critique of the idea alone, it's forcing it into context.

Exactly. But switching to individual context around societal question is the problematic argument here. Properly contextualizing means to use individual cases to explain impact, but that is not done here.

Society is formed by many individuals, and it doesn't necessarily matters what most of them do to address a particular problem. We have division of responsibility.

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

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Post by joveian »

heavyset_go wrote: post #371
mbrubeck wrote: post #304

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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

There's a profile switcher extension: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/profile-switc...

Or bookmark about:profiles.

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

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Post by exikyut »

jlokier wrote: post #206
invalidname wrote: post #21

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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.

I'm with the GP on this: FF is unstable with lots of tabs. It's a big memory hog, and it's been like this for about 2 years in my experience so far. I'm using a Mac with 16GB RAM, and it's not enough for Firefox any more (something changed, it used to use less memory). Using current FF (103.0b9). Lot of tabs, but auto tab-unloading so there shouldn't be a large number active. Reported memory use (in Activity Monitor)…

An anecdote about the jank and pauses: I have... many (D:) tabs open in Chrome right now, and I discovered that setting Session Buddy to show the number of tabs in its icon causes the entire browser to pause for a fraction of a second every 1-2 seconds. Clearly this is because Session Buddy is calling the "get list of open tabs" API method, which for all I know is using a global mutex that is held for as long as it takes the browser process to get and build the tab list. Perhaps something similar is happening in Firefox. Try doing the whole nuke-profile-from-orbit thing, remove all extensions, reset all the settings, etc (after backing the profile up sufficiently to be able to put it all back). It might be some obscure option or configuration flag. Given the low number of tabs it's not likely to be that.
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