It doesn't support the webkit scrollbar variables. -webkit-scrollbar -webkit-scrollbar-track -webkit-scrollbar-thumb
That's because Firefox is not based on webkit. Of course, nonstandard webkit extensions only work on webkit browsers.
Tell HN: Firefox Is an awesome browser right now
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Re: Tell HN: Firefox Is an awesome browser right now
#82I love firefox and have been using it for nearly 20 years now, but my latest employer doesn't support it so they recommended I switch to Edge on my work machine... Don't get a job in academia
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#83Earlier quoted context omitted.
Multi-Account Containers are like profiles, but in tabs instead of other windows. They're pretty great. It's an official Mozilla Firefox extension: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multi-account...
If I understand correctly, these only compartmentalise cookies and browsing history, whereas full profiles (via the -ProfileManager switch in Firefox) compartmentalise the whole browser config (add-ons, permissions, etc.) as well, which I think is much more useful.
If you want to open 5 of the same website but with different accounts, containers are the way to go.
The AWS console comes to mind.
I don't want separate configs, just separate accounts.
I have also used it as a proxy manager. Different proxy config in a different container.
Re: Tell HN: Firefox Is an awesome browser right now
#84Can't use it on a Mac as it won't play ball with Keychain. Not going to reenter all my passwords.
I don't use Keychain as I have BitWarden but, AFAIK, the only browser able to connect to Keychain is Safari, isn't it ?
Re: Tell HN: Firefox Is an awesome browser right now
#85I love Firefox but some JS heavy demos etc. just don't work fast enough. I hate that I know exactly why. It's because they were only ever tested on Chrome during development.
I recently wrote a small JS page, the core of it is a table of tens of thousands of items and a for(let i=0; iIn Edge the page loads quickly and the loop is typically under 20ms.
In FireFox the page lags many seconds while loading and rendering, and several seconds when the loop involves a lot of hide/show of the table.
It's not that I haven't tested, it's that FireFox just isn't as fast as Edge. This simple approach relies on the browser handling a lot of items because I can't write a complex indexer in JavaScript and don't want to spend more effort on a low-use page and I refuse to put up with 'paging'.
Re: Tell HN: Firefox Is an awesome browser right now
#86"BypassPaywallsClean" is a must-have extension for the modern internet. Does anybody else use multiple browsers? Maybe it's just because I'm doing web-dev right now, but I think using as many browsers as possible is necessary as I find inconsistencies that could become bugs all the time. I use Firefox as my "main" and Chrome as my "alt".
I use chrome as a backup. Though initially I only did this to support some legacy software that only worked through Flash (don't ask), so if I'm forced to use Chrome I get the distinct impression that I'm looking at a buggy/legacy/badly written webpage.
Re: Tell HN: Firefox Is an awesome browser right now
#87I love Firefox but some JS heavy demos etc. just don't work fast enough. I hate that I know exactly why. It's because they were only ever tested on Chrome during development.
It shouldn't matter honestly, I didn't notice any performance difference in benchmarks for react.
Re: Tell HN: Firefox Is an awesome browser right now
#88Earlier quoted context omitted.
Multi-Account Containers are like profiles, but in tabs instead of other windows. They're pretty great. It's an official Mozilla Firefox extension: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multi-account...
If I understand correctly, these only compartmentalise cookies and browsing history, whereas full profiles (via the -ProfileManager switch in Firefox) compartmentalise the whole browser config (add-ons, permissions, etc.) as well, which I think is much more useful.
Both have their merits, in my opinion.
Given that Firefox already has multi-profile support internally, it would only be a matter of adding a GUI similar to Chrome's to make it the best of both worlds.
Re: Tell HN: Firefox Is an awesome browser right now
#89It’s been that way since the mid-2010s, especially if you don’t have at least 16GB of RAM. I switched from Chrome circa 2015 but use both extensively. As a developer what I found worked best was to develop sites in Firefox and then test them in other browsers - it avoided relying on Chrome-only features but since the developer tools both have things they do better you’ll naturally find certain tasks are easier in one.
Re: Tell HN: Firefox Is an awesome browser right now
#90Earlier quoted context omitted.
I've been using a multi-profile setup in firefox for years, just by launching it with firefox --new-instance -ProfileManager %u which lets me pick a profile at startup, each with its own settings, cookies, history, and add-ons, etc.. This works fine for me, I don't really feel the need to launch into a different profile from the browser's own menu, if that's what you're referring to?
Can you run multiple profiles at the same time using this approach?
Firefox doesn’t restrict how many profiles you run at the same time. You can start them either via -ProfileManager, or by going to about:profiles.