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

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Post by 6510 »

jshen wrote: post #681
6510 wrote: post #592

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm no expert, just reading web pages: Apparently Firefox market share dropped from 30% to 3.46 over the same time her income went from 500 k to 4 million. An old write up: https://calpaterson.com/mozilla.html

A few million seems reasonable to me. It’s less than a CEO of a tech company makes.

I dunno, for a non profit the % administrative overhead is apparently ridiculous.

Clueless as I am I had a look at page 6-7 of https://nonprofitlight.com/page/6 where we find helm men of charities earning around 4 m.

This entry strikes me as funny:

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https://nonprofitlight.com/ny/new-york/trustees-of-columbia-...

TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK

Total Revenue $5,554,552,356

Total Expenses $5,268,492,284

Net Assets $15,984,284,555

Lawrence Gerald Lenke PROFESSOR OF SURGERY $4,741,060

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https://nonprofitlight.com/ky/louisville/university-of-louis...

UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION

Total Revenue $126,934,461

Total Expenses $122,421,563

Net Assets $126,332,991

Fredric Scott Satterfield Head Football Coach $4,140,900

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https://nonprofitlight.com/ca/mountain-view/mozilla-foundati...

MOZILLA FOUNDATION

Total Revenue $28,388,184

Total Expenses $21,889,786

Net Assets $53,411,636

Mark Surman EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR/PRESIDENT $286,990

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Right, now I'm more clueless than I started out.

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

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Post by padfootprong »

The biggest problem I had with firefox back in the day was it would eat up so much RAM. I'm a developer and I'm constantly loading, reloading, profiling etc across multiple tabs and eventually my pretty powerful PC would become slow. I had to restart firefox every time.

When chrome launched, I was thrilled that it had firebug features "built in" and that it didn't eat up 80% of my RAM.

The article mentions Firefox being not a processor hog anymore, has that changed that drastically?

After a while, Firefox would be incredibly sluggish and when I switched to chrome, I haven't looked back at all. These days, I use brave browser for personal browsing and chrome for work

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

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Post by pixiemagic »

padfootprong wrote: post #692

The biggest problem I had with firefox back in the day was it would eat up so much RAM. I'm a developer and I'm constantly loading, reloading, profiling etc across multiple tabs and eventually my pretty powerful PC would become slow. I had to restart firefox every time. When chrome launched, I was thrilled that it had firebug features "built in" and that it didn't eat up 80% of my RAM. The article mentions Firefox be…

This is weird, because I thought that Chrome (at least semi-recently, perhaps not in the earliest days) was infamous for hogging RAM.

I use Firefox and can't say that I've thought much about browser resource usage, which probably means it's not catastrophically bad, at the very least.

Why not try it out and see if it's better for you now?

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

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Post by anna_hope »

worik wrote: post #598
krolden wrote: post #307

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

I have to use laods of Google Crap at work. I use Firefox. It works OK. Is that why I think the Google docs are not very good? I am on a Mac (for work) so in reality I am using Safari it seems from what I have been reading!

On the Mac, Firefox is Firefox, with Quantum and all. It's iOS where Firefox, like every other third party browser, is mostly just reskinned Safari, because third party browser engines aren't allowed due to apps being restricted from running outside code.

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

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Post by sankalp_sans »

Been using Firefox for 80%+ of my use cases, but whenever I need to make a payment online, it is easier to just use Chrome which stores and syncs payment methods.

And I am amazed how Firefox doesn't have profiles unlike Chrome, or at least the implementation is so counterintuitive (I use "Personal" profile as a Facebook container for instance). On the other hand, Chrome profile switching and isolation are just still so good. I hope this is not some patent-protected thing which Firefox can't just copy for good.

If Mozilla team is reading, here is some direct feedback for why I couldn't completely switch over.

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

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Post by stefandesu »

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?

Late update: I feel extremely stupid. I'm using an app called "App Tamer"[0] and had it configured to run Firefox on the efficiency cores only, even when it's in the foreground. Maybe I thought originally that the e-cores would be more than fast enough to handle a browser, but I guess that's not the case. This also explains why I might not have noticed this issue before: I only use Firefox for work-related tasks and I rarely work while on battery.

[0]: https://www.stclairsoft.com/AppTamer/

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

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Post by JshWright »

CoolCold wrote: post #472
JshWright wrote: post #39

TouchID support for WebAuthn is the last thing I need to make the switch for my daily driver browser. I used Firefox for years, but being able to use TouchID for auth/MFA is just such a huge quality of life improvement for me that it keeps me on Chrome. Fortunately it looks like there has been at least a little movement on this recently (bumped from a P4 to P2) https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1536482

Afair couple of times I was using fingerprint auth (that'd touchid if I understand things right) in Firefox. Very rare, but definitely had it as it was big WOW for me.

It's supported for logging in to Firefox itself, but not for MFA/WebAuthN flows (which are much, much more common)

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

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Post by mixmastamyk »

spurgu wrote: post #516
mixmastamyk wrote: post #437

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Option+D would be the analogue on Mac. This might work: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/shortkeys/

> Option+D would be the analogue on Mac. For me it's "the key to the left of the spacebar" in terms of muscle memory, so Cmd on Mac. Tried it, as well as modifying omni.ja... From the add-on page (I tried it): > shortkeys cannot override Firefox default shortcuts

Look up: https://karabiner-elements.pqrs.org/
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