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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 autoexec »

slowmovintarget wrote: post #504
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…

Tab search in FF: Type a percent sign and a space in the address bar, your search is now on tabs. % - Tab search ^ - History search * - Bookmark search

I wish they also had a way to search tabs without the address bar. I insist that address bars act solely as address bars so I've disabled all other features from it including search.

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

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Post by hammyhavoc »

agumonkey wrote: post #230
lordnacho wrote: post #95

Earlier quoted context omitted.

TST is literally the killer feature for FF. It's actually the only reason I went to FF, it was getting out of hand to have all my tabs across the top, and it makes little sense with modern screens being so wide that giving up a little horizontal space to get legible titles is absolutely worth it. Someone in Chrome/Edge/Safari must be thinking about doing this, I don't know why it hasn't been cloned. Can't be too hard…

I never got to leverage TST, something about the UX bothers me. I have better flow with Tab Stash. Also TST suffers with my hoarding habits and the subtree features have bare naked UI.

How have I never seen Tab Stash? This is how my brain has wanted bookmarks and tabs to work for many years.

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

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Post by stefandesu »

Incidentally, Firefox on my M1 MacBook Air suddenly got very slow. Scrolling got super laggy. I've tried refreshing it and disabling all extensions, nothing helps. It's on the latest version and the rest of the system is very smooth as always.

It's even laggy after I completely wiped it from my system and used a fresh Firefox installation.

Any ideas?

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

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Post by hammyhavoc »

moth-fuzz wrote: post #568
loloquwowndueo wrote: post #81

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If you need tab groups and tab search, you’re using tabs wrong. Bookmarks exist for that purpose and they do have search and grouping (folders). Coworkers look at me like I’m a freak because I usually keep fewer than 10 tabs open :)

Wow, I should have read this before cadence-per-cadence making the exact same comment! I have no idea why nobody uses bookmarks and everybody keeps hundreds of tabs open. When did that start? Who even has the RAM for that? How do you even click on them when they’re that tiny? So many things just don’t make sense.

I have 3000+ tabs in Firefox. The sleeping/suspending of tabs brings it down to 2GB of RAM usage.

Thus I would expect most people have the RAM unless they're on a yesteryear SBC.

FWIW, I have 128GB of RAM, and fully utilize it.

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

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Post by hammyhavoc »

rocho wrote: post #283
theden wrote: post #232

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uBlock Origin does exist on chrome btw https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ublock-origin/cjpa...

As far as I know Chrome has its own tracking which can't be blocked.

Is this not why people use Chromium?

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

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Post by pythux »

grupthink wrote: post #517
SixDouble5321 wrote: post #486

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It's not feature complete.

What features are incomplete?

It cannot do CNAME uncloaking because Chrome's extension API do not provide dns resolving like on Firefox. Another example if HTML filtering where on Firefox an extension can rewrite the HTML from requests on the fly (e.g. to remove script tags, etc.). That's also not possible on Chrome and uBlock Origin will only make use of this on Firefox. There are probably more limitations, these are just two from the top of my head.

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

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Post by dharmit »

stefandesu wrote: post #633

Incidentally, Firefox on my M1 MacBook Air suddenly got very slow. Scrolling got super laggy. I've tried refreshing it and disabling all extensions, nothing helps. It's on the latest version and the rest of the system is very smooth as always. It's even laggy after I completely wiped it from my system and used a fresh Firefox installation. Any ideas?

> Scrolling got super laggy.

Are you sure that it is not due to the "smooth scrolling" being enabled? I remember it used to enabled by default on fresh installations of FF.

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

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Post by hammyhavoc »

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.

Gmail offline support. This is why there's Thunderbird.

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

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Post by hammyhavoc »

cowtools wrote: post #459
encryptluks2 wrote: post #409

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You get account support with Google One or a Google Workspace subscription. There are other support avenues as well. Account bans do happen but for the most part it appears that when it does, that the person who got banned doesn't share the full story and people are more than happy to jump on the Google hate train. Google is a successful company and it annoys a lot of people that others don't have the same hate that…

If someone gets banned from google, they probably deserve it even though I have no idea why it happened.

This is such a bad attitude to take.

I had my paid GAFB account suspended years ago without explanation, could not get in touch with support, and as it took so long to get in touch with support, my data had been deleted by that point, meaning I lost many, many, many years of irreplaceable photographs from my Drive. Haven't touched cloud storage since.

Lesson learned: Drive is not a substitute for backups, nor is it a place to keep the only copy of important information. Now running Unraid.

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

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Post by turboponyy »

rsync wrote: post #623
lordnacho wrote: post #95

Earlier quoted context omitted.

TST is literally the killer feature for FF. It's actually the only reason I went to FF, it was getting out of hand to have all my tabs across the top, and it makes little sense with modern screens being so wide that giving up a little horizontal space to get legible titles is absolutely worth it. Someone in Chrome/Edge/Safari must be thinking about doing this, I don't know why it hasn't been cloned. Can't be too hard…

“TST is literally the killer feature for FF …” No - it is figuratively the killer feature. If it were literally the killer function this would be a very different discussion .

> literally the (killer feature)

vs

> (literally the killer) feature

A "killer feature" is a phrase with its own meaning so we can treat it as an atom and apply modifiers to it. The order of operations matters, and I posit that the OP placed their imaginary parentheses as I did in my first example.

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