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

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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…

I'm pretty sure that Opera invented tabs, not Firefox.

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

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post #248

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…

> Firefox invented tabs 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…

simplebrowser had them before opera

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

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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.

that works to some of the same things firefox can do, but you can also tell firefox to "Always open this site in my banking container" and the next time you load it up, from any container, it will switch it the one you prefer. Also, I really love having amazon and facebook on their own containers, to cut down on all the weird advertising stuff I see..

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

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Ha, thanks for sharing Firefox Relay - I actually work on that, so I was a bit hesitant about sharing it. I'll add that "paying for it" is €1 a month for unlimited email addresses.

Not a paying customer but if there was a way to sign up and pay anonymously (crypto and/or cash via mail), I'd be banging on the door even at a significant markup.

Is something like privacy dot com (virtual card numbers) not anonymous enough? I kinda don’t wanna know what you’re doing with these email addresses

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

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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…

> Firefox uses much more battery on MacOS than any chromium based browser.

I really don't see that. Firefox with certain extensions is a battery hog but the browser itself is pretty lightweight on CPU for me.

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

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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…

> There's nothing actually substantive about it. It doesn't feel like it belongs on HN.

Most of the comments on every new Firefox release post are just as bad and have nothing to do with the actual release (folks whining about how their incredibly-niche use-case isn't supported anymore which breaks their workflow etc.), so in some ways it's nice to see something positive (which I would wager is more representative of the average user).

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

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Biggest difference compared to Chrome, of course, is privacy. Of course Chrome cares about performance and all that other stuff, but significantly less about privacy.

The downside of that is that ReCaptcha sucks more than usual. Because Google knows less about me, I sometimes have to do a ReCaptcha two or three times before it will grudgingly acknowledge my humanity.

Usually I see ReCaptcha as a sign not to use that site.

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

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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 thought it was an upside down version of "the beatings will continue until morale improves."
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