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Re: Tell HN: Firefox Is an awesome browser right now

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> I'd be glad to learn of any other cool features and extensions that y'all might want to share. I'm sure others will be sharing it as I type this comment as well, but for many HN readers, Multi-Account Containers [1] are bound to be a godsend. Easily log in to different accounts for any website, in different tabs. Great feature that's not available in other browsers. [1] https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/mult…

You're right, but for a counter-point versus Chromium, multi-account containers are worse for security compared with profiles… This matters when you can't 100% trust your browser session, or the installed extensions. Did you ever load https://my.1password.com in your browser? How do you feel about it? Do you trust your installed extensions to not take a peak? I don't. Chrome solves this elegantly via profiles. Even m…

Wouldn't Firefox's profiles accomplish the same thing? (Yes, I understand they are difficult to access but they are still there.)

That said, containers are a handy tool for people who want to access multiple accounts without the trouble of setting up individual profiles. Keep in mind, if you're only trying to access a personal and work Google account you probably don't want to spend time setting up a separate profile for each then keeping the settings synchronized.

Re: Tell HN: Firefox Is an awesome browser right now

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Tree Style Tabs is absolutely vital to me, I don't understand how people can live without that extension. The other thing I use a lot is firefox's readability builtin (it's not an extension), which removes all the cruft and *walls from websites and makes them... readable in one click. These two together are killer apps for me. I might consider switching to another browser (firefox isn't exactly the paragon of virtue…

I used to use it, until I wrote my own vertical tabs extension, which acceptably handles thousands of tabs...

Safari has vertical tabs natively now. The interesting part is hierarchical tabs

Re: Tell HN: Firefox Is an awesome browser right now

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post #49

> I'd be glad to learn of any other cool features and extensions that y'all might want to share. I'm sure others will be sharing it as I type this comment as well, but for many HN readers, Multi-Account Containers [1] are bound to be a godsend. Easily log in to different accounts for any website, in different tabs. Great feature that's not available in other browsers. [1] https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/mult…

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Re: Tell HN: Firefox Is an awesome browser right now

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post #31

Time for my rant as a Firefox user since the beta Phoenix versions, stating that I'm a daily MacOS and Android tablet user * Firefox uses much more battery on MacOS than any chromium based browser. Bugzilla ticket exists since ages, few things have change * Firefox on Android tablet after the change to Fenix is a stretched phone browser, with no tabs support, no default desktop support. Firefox developers treat this…

You consider it a bug that you don't like the UI?

Re: Tell HN: Firefox Is an awesome browser right now

#195
Firefox used to be even better.

I’m still bitter they dropped that workspaces feature where you could group tabs together and switch to a completely different group of tabs witha few keystrokes.

And no, the replacement feature is not equivalent nor better in anyway.

Still better than that bag of spyware trash that google chrome is.

Re: Tell HN: Firefox Is an awesome browser right now

#196
post #79
post #10

Portability of saved passwords is a hassle that might get regulated in the next decade or two. I have 15 years of saved Keychain credentials that I’ve been very slowly porting over to Firefox Sync since switching to Windows. The fact that I let Apple generate complex passwords makes entry by hand even more slower. Apple’s Chrome iCloud plug-in for Windows is just paying lip service.

> I have 15 years of saved Keychain credentials that I’ve been very slowly porting over to Firefox Sync since switching to Windows. The fact that I let Apple generate complex passwords makes entry by hand even more slower. Do you know you can export all Safari passwords to an unencrypted .csv from the Safari Preferences page? (Preferences Passwords, click the “circle with 3 dots” pop-up, choose “Export All Passwords”…

I had no idea! My faith in technology companies is restored!

I tried to export from Keychain Access before without success.

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