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

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Post by awb »

crazygringo wrote: post #142

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…

It might be the excitement from the novelty:

> Some really cool observations in first 30 mins of using it

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

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Post by pontifier »

pilsetnieks wrote: post #118
pontifier wrote: post #58

I switched to Firefox several years ago out of principal, but it's been a struggle to stay with it. 2 big issues I have are the tendency to freeze, and then say "restart to keep using Firefox" because it updated in the background and can't continue. The other was almost a deal breaker, and still could be. When using a barcode scanner, Firefox can't keep up with the characters coming from the scanner. It will randomly…

Assuming you're talking about an actual barcode scanner device: barcode scanners commonly present as USB keyboards to the OS. The thing about USB keyboards is that events aren't pushed to the computer but are polled at a set rate (commonly 125Hz). It could be that the scanner produces the numbers quick enough to approach the USB polling rate, and maybe Chrome has some additional smarts to handle it, or maybe Firefox…

The scanner works perfectly in everything except Firefox. I've tried multiple scanners, I've tried different settings. I think I even tried setting an inter-character delay. Firefox is the only thing that seems to drop characters. I basically had to write the back end of my web app to do error checking after the fact and reject barcodes that didn't have the right number of characters. Which doesn't help at all when some barcodes are different lengths. I had to add an extra step for the user to tell the back end how many characters were in the barcode before they can scan one.

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

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Post by Ygg2 »

lol768 wrote: post #258
crazygringo wrote: post #142

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…

https://xkcd.com/1172/

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

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Post by robjan »

Operative0198 wrote: post #149
capableweb wrote: post #111

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Unfortunately, Vivaldi is not FOSS which makes it a non-starter for many.

Brave is FOSS and fills the gap (if you can find all the crypto ads toggles hidden as hamburgers).

I find Brave slower than Chrome on my phone even on sites filled with ads.

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

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Post by runnerup »

OrbiterToad wrote: post #279
aliqot wrote: post #253

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simplebrowser had them before opera

dont know what kind of googling prodigies you are, but I googled 'first browser with tabs' and it says the InternetWorks Browser was the first

They’re not googling. Google is useful but sometimes has incorrect answers. The truth is we probably won’t know the true first browser with tabs. It could have been before the one you found.

These people are saying “I personally used browser Z with tabs before your example Browser A was even released”. If enough people continue the chain, we’ll get to “the oldest tabbed browser that anyone on HN remembers using”.

The nice thing about these anecdotes is that they can generally be validated quickly and easily. But your google result cannot be validated easily.

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

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Post by rovr138 »

kiliankoe wrote: post #219
throwaway290 wrote: post #192

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

Where does Safari have vertical tabs? I've been using Orion for a while now mainly for that feature, a WebKit browser with well working vertical tabs.

View > Sidebar

On the left, it should show the number of tabs in the current window. If you click on that, it lists the tabs.

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

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Post by glandium »

dewarrn1 wrote: post #190
crazygringo wrote: post #142

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…

In these discussions, I am always mindful that the two browsers have shared developer DNA (not to say code) from the inception of Google's offering: "Messrs. Brin and Page hired some Firefox developers who built a demonstration of Chrome. “It was so good that it essentially forced me to change my mind,” Mr. Schmidt said..." [0] [0]: https://web.archive.org/web/20200805000248/https://blogs.wsj...

You can add Safari to the mix: Dave Hyatt (ex-Netscape/Mozilla) was part of the team at Apple that created Safari.

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

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Post by swozey »

marginalia_nu wrote: post #228
slondr wrote: post #225

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It’s trivial to increase the UI button size in Firefox, though.

Really? How do you do that?

I can't open it right now but I'm pretty sure you right click anywhere around the bookmarks bar (NOT a bookmark) you get an option to customize the UI/bars and there's a checkbox for icon size

Unless I'm completely mixing this up with Chrome but I don't see that here.

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

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Post by wolongong942 »

Opposite experience here. Long time Firefox user and in the past 3 years it's gotten incredibly bad for me as sites have gone more JS heavy, and video in particular has become a huge problem for my Firefox install it seems. Major sites like Youtube (~25% of videos get an error, forcing me to open in chrome), Reddit (yeah this one sucks for everyone, but at least loads on chrome if you have a high end pc+connection, which i do) and Instagram can't be reliably used for watching video. For years i used Firefox with a bunch of privacy/security-hardening settings but I've had to undo a lot of it to even use the web as of recent as the number of broken websites was getting too ridiculous.

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

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Post by bmn__ »

archontes wrote: post #267

I want to begin typing a website's name, have firefox recognize it and indicate it to me, and press 'tab' to begin searching. The lack of that single feature makes firefox unpleasant to use for me.

What does begin searching mean?

I just tested, the tab key cycles through the list of results for the input typed into the location bar. What should happen instead?

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