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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.
How many core devs are working on changing things to make ff secure, faster and (not-so-dumb-)user-friendly? Telemetry opt out? Sure, but… you need to patch and build your own version of firefox to make it really privacy-friendly. And do not forget about re-branding.
For me, OP looks overly excited and hallucinogenically optitimistic.
Firefox 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…
Have you heard of LibreWolf ? It is basically FF without the telemetry and with a lot of privacy and security features [1]. I've been using it for 2+ years and I'm very happy with it. The transition from FF to LibreWolf was seamless.
Can't use it on a Mac as it won't play ball with Keychain. Not going to reenter all my passwords.
Putting aside all politics, end of the day, despite all of Google's shortcomings - they actually got the UX of Google Chrome REALLY RIGHT. The tabs are awesome. The unified search bar is awesome. The top panel UX is really tight and compact and looks good at the same time. The ability to sweitch between profiles which I now use a lot (work/leisure) works great. ps: did I mention the smaller details like the immediate…
Not that special anymore.
> The unified search bar is awesome.
No, they're not. By design they're very leaky, they send your typed queries to the search engine that your browser is set to PLUS a few to Google for analytics. That includes every website you type the address into.
I 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…
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"Mandatory beatings have been indefinitely postponed"
I have seen this phrase in several places, but cannot find the origin of the phrase. Where is it from?
I love Firefox too but this is a really weird post. The OP is clearly having performance issues with Chrome presumably due to extensions interfering or something else. I can guarantee you that Google makes sure Gmail loads at least as fast in Chrome as in Firefox. Chrome is customizable too (panes you can open/close), Chrome extensions are also thriving, and Chrome was the one who invented the "clean look", same as F…
Wow, that's false. Firefox was NOT the first browser with tabs. From the top of my head, Opera had tabs before Firefox, confirmed by a quick Google search. And apparently Opera wasn't the first browser with tabs either, although it was probably the first browser with a significant market share with tabs.
Also tabs were not invented by any browser, other programs used to have tabs before it was integrated into browsers.
I love Firefox too but this is a really weird post. The OP is clearly having performance issues with Chrome presumably due to extensions interfering or something else. I can guarantee you that Google makes sure Gmail loads at least as fast in Chrome as in Firefox. Chrome is customizable too (panes you can open/close), Chrome extensions are also thriving, and Chrome was the one who invented the "clean look", same as F…
Been on Firefox for many years for one reason only - TreeStyle Tab. Once other browsers implement it, if ever, would consider jumping ship. Orion has something similar, but it's a baby version of that, really...
I had to switch to Sidebery after some bugs with TST (broken hierarchy, etc.).