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Re: Min: A fast, minimal browser that protects your privacy

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Post by rcMgD2BwE72F »

vjerancrnjak wrote: post #80
wereallterrrist wrote: post #54

Just... give Firefox a shot people. Please: https://i.imgur.com/81OpEOy.png

I tried it on mobile and it's interesting that quite a lot of websites are broken. Many tapping workflows I had in Chrome on Android are fully broken in Firefox. From simple deepl.com to Google products that look like they dropped FF support. Even Reddit on Firefox PC crashes occasionally (the whole site turns white while browsing). Reddit on FF on Android is barely browsable.

I haven't encountered any issue with Firefox for Android for years.

Here's how you can fix this all at once: https://old.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/g3tyfu/how_to_swit...

Google is intentionally breaking support for Firefox on their websites. Other just don't care and support monopolies.

Re: Min: A fast, minimal browser that protects your privacy

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Post by reaperducer »

wereallterrrist wrote: post #54

Just... give Firefox a shot people. Please: https://i.imgur.com/81OpEOy.png

Just... give Firefox a shot people

I did. But the Firefox UI is still very Windows-centric, and doesn't feel like a real Mac program at all.

But the big reason I don't use it is that you can't define how to switch from tab to tab.

Every program on my Mac from Safari to Nova to VS Codium to my database manager allows me to switch tabs with the standard macOS Keyboard Shortcuts settings. So I use the same keys to switch tabs in every program on my Mac. Which is part of the whole Mac experience — Things happening the same way between apps.

Even the Finder, and the DuckDuckGo browser allow this.

Not so with Firefox. The simple addition of "Show Next Tab" and "Show Previous Tab" in the drop-down menus would fix this. It's so simple. So elementary. So basic to every other Mac program I use that its absence in Firefox is glaring. I'm not going to rearrange the muscle memory I use all day every day for one program.

Re: Min: A fast, minimal browser that protects your privacy

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Post by mcny »

BigElephant wrote: post #100
wereallterrrist wrote: post #54

Just... give Firefox a shot people. Please: https://i.imgur.com/81OpEOy.png

How do you get vertical tabs?

I believe the meta is to use tree style tabs

warning: is for advanced users

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tree-style-ta...

Re: Min: A fast, minimal browser that protects your privacy

#104

Post by vagabund »

fumar wrote: post #97
d12bb wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Anyway, use firefox or librewolf. Stop enabling the chromium monopoly! Or Safari of course, it's really a great browser if one's on the Mac.

I switched to Safari last year. The battery life improvements over Chrome makes it worth. It’s been a solid browser experience and I haven’t gone back to Chrome for anything. I wish I could add Kagi as a default search.

If you use Kagi for search, I'm assuming you've used their Orion browser [0], where you can set Kagi as default. Any reason why you didn't like it?

[0] https://browser.kagi.com/

Re: Min: A fast, minimal browser that protects your privacy

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Post by senko »

kspacewalk2 wrote: post #53
Terretta wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Or Safari of course, it's really a great browser if one's on the Mac. The venerable iCab or new Orion from Kagi shows what's possible here. https://www.icab.de/ https://browser.kagi.com/ Kagi's Orion runs Firefox and Chrome extensions, including on iOS, and of course works with Kagi search, which is enough better that it's worth switching from Google/Bing/DDG. --- EDIT to add, on iCab, it's been updated as of 2020,…

>Kagi search, which is enough better that it's worth switching from Google/Bing/DDG. But highly unlikely to be better enough to justify paying a subscription for it (for most people, anyway), so it's always going to be confined to a small niche of users.

Does everything need to be a billion dollar business?

Globally, I can easily see enough users sign up to sustain the small team. Their blog post [0] mentiones they calculate they need 25,000 subscribers to sustain themselves.

(I'm a paying customer, FWIW).

[0] https://blog.kagi.com/status-update-first-three-months#futur...

Re: Min: A fast, minimal browser that protects your privacy

#109

Post by arboles »

BigElephant wrote: post #100
wereallterrrist wrote: post #54

Just... give Firefox a shot people. Please: https://i.imgur.com/81OpEOy.png

How do you get vertical tabs?

I prefer sidebery because it's cleaner than TST OOTB

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

Re: Min: A fast, minimal browser that protects your privacy

#110

Post by Kalium »

xnacly wrote: post #3

A browser in electron? At this point just use chromium - makes no difference. Anyway, use firefox or librewolf. Stop enabling the chromium monopoly!

On the contrary, it makes a significant difference vs Chromium. Using Electron means having jettisoned a number of security protections that Chromium offers while exposing the system to the attacks those are designed to stop.

In design terms, this is a wonderful, beautiful, laudable project in pursuit of a great purity of vision.

In security terms, this is an exercise in recklessness. It's irresponsible to even suggest that people should try using it.

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