I love Firefox, too.
It is more customizable than Chrome.
But it isn't fast. Especially not on iOS.
Tell HN: Firefox Is an awesome browser right now
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#222Funny timing for me to see this on HN today
After some years of love/hate relationship with Vivaldi, I'm currently trying (once again...) to go back to Firefox after one too many chrome-based browsers fuck-up: opening Edge in a windows VM suddenly got my RAM usage up by 32GB, which were shared with my non-VM chrome-based browsers (chromium, vivaldi). First time just crashed my whole computer, second time I had to kill it all (the memory usage moved to chromium and then vivaldi when I closed the VM).
Vivaldi performance issues (and some bugs) was already putting me on the edge very often, but I really like the features so switching is very hard and will take a lot of time getting used to. Mouse gestures, panels, integrated mail (took way too long to come), tab stacking/tiling, command palette, etc. Sure some of these have firefox extensions doing something similar but it's still far from being the same.
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#223> 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…
I can't imagine browsing the web without MAC and Temporary Containers. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/temporary-con...
It's sort of like everything opens in a private browsing window, except the stuff I've whitelisted.
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#224Earlier quoted context omitted.
Holy crap thank you! I have to log into multiple Microsoft365 tenants and it drove me crazy with the amount of signing OUT I needed to do when switching accounts, to the point where my crappy workaround was to use different browsers for each account (Chrome, Firefox, Edge, Opera, Brave, etc) but I started to run out of different browsers. This multi-account container extension is a godsend
Chrome supports multiple user profiles. I assume Edge and Brave do too.
Or you can start them pointing to a completely different user-profile-directory.
I do that, no chance for one to leak into the others.
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#225I use Firefox sort of begrudgingly. It's marginally less bad than the other options, but it's still an awful browser. I vehemently disagree with almost all of its design decisions, and with every new release they seem to stray even farther from sane UX. It has hamburger menus on desktop and a lot of weird space-saving design that makes no sense on a modern high resolution display. Buttons are small, have cryptic flat…
It’s trivial to increase the UI button size in Firefox, though.
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#226I now use Brave on everything: Linux, Mac, iOS, iPadOS. Mozilla has some really weird stuff going on in their financials that bother me, and as a result, I just can’t use their products anymore. This is similar to my feelings about Google, Microsoft, and so on. I prefer tech companies to just be tech companies and not branch into other fields. I understand that Brave’s stance on certain things bleeds into politics wi…
I'm not seeing what's troubling here. Going strictly off of the examples you provided, I see that they largely hold their donations as bonds, while re-donating the rest to either purchase open source software or, at the government level, prevent tech companies from selling privacy or participating in censorship. As an anarchist, wouldn't that be something you'd approve of? I don't use Firefox. I find the UI to be clu…
> As an anarchist, wouldn’t that be something you’d approve of?
I suspect GP considers themself an anarchist in the pop culture sense, which has little in common with the political practice.
Re: Tell HN: Firefox Is an awesome browser right now
#227Earlier quoted context omitted.
If the buttons are small, they are harder to click. It's also harder to understand what they do, which is important when they have icons that are just cryptic monochrome squiggles. What's the merit in making the buttons unobtrusive? What are you going to do with all those saved pixels? There is no pixel shortage on desktop! That's a mobile design consideration. When the browser is covering a sixth of my screen it's a…
Given this line of thought, why doesn't Firefox put every single icon from the menu on the toolbar. Since there is so much space. My argument is that since those buttons are rarely used, they should be unobtrusive. Looking at my toolbar now, I really don't think they are that small. Just the right size. https://i.imgur.com/wyM9c2k.png
Well if you make something hard to access, of course it won't be used very often.
The buttons are pretty tiny within the context of the entire screen: https://imgur.com/BGKsaeD
Re: Tell HN: Firefox Is an awesome browser right now
#228I use Firefox sort of begrudgingly. It's marginally less bad than the other options, but it's still an awful browser. I vehemently disagree with almost all of its design decisions, and with every new release they seem to stray even farther from sane UX. It has hamburger menus on desktop and a lot of weird space-saving design that makes no sense on a modern high resolution display. Buttons are small, have cryptic flat…
It’s trivial to increase the UI button size in Firefox, though.
Really? How do you do that?
Re: Tell HN: Firefox Is an awesome browser right now
#229Firefox gets all their operating funding from Google’s Search agreement. This prevents FF from protecting user privacy as it’d jeopardize their primary source of income. Firefox also has a lot of telemetry and experiments enabled, even if users opt out in the GUI. These have to be disabled in the about:config setting. It is the slow and uses a lot of RAM, but despite all these thing it’s the second most popular for a…
Could you kindly provide a reliable guide about how to completely disable telemetry in FF?
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#230This is very obviously an ad… at the top of the front page… Y’all crack me up sometimes.
This level of cynicism would make more sense if you spent any time on the Internet, where normal people regularly evangelize for their browser of choice simply because they feel strongly about it. It's a very common thing. Check out Reddit.