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

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Post by imiric »

aliqot wrote: post #253
thiht wrote: post #248

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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

Way to jump in with a quick retort, when GP already conceded that Opera wasn't the first browser with tabs. But it was arguably the first browser that popularized tabs.

Besides, their point was refuting the "Firefox invented tabs" statement, which is valid.

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Post by shafyy »

qbit42 wrote: post #165
shafyy wrote: post #95

I also use Firefox as my main daily driver and have been for 5 years or so. Recently I started trialing Arc ( https://arc.net/ ) and it's interesting. They try to be quirky and have a bit of a different approach. What I like is that they also have the idea of different profiles (like Firefox Multi-account Containers) built in. I'm not 100% convinced of Arc yet, but it's good enough for my secondary browser (also for…

I've really loved using Arc recently, it's a very fresh take on web browsing. I've found that its spaces feature handles my uses of (most) bookmarks and tab groups in a more coherent way. My main annoyance is that there isn't any sort of backup standard bookmark system built-in.

I also like Spaces a lot. I think my main issue is that I don't like the vertical sidebar, and doing cmd+s to hide and show it all the time is not that great (also because some web apps hijack cmd+s).

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Post by marginalia_nu »

swozey wrote: post #298
marginalia_nu wrote: post #228

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Nope, not getting any of that. If it ever existed, it's another casualty in the war on configurability. There's an option to add more space between the icons, but they're still as tiny as they ever were.

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Post by petemir »

loa_in_ wrote: post #13

I love Firefox but some JS heavy demos etc. just don't work fast enough. I hate that I know exactly why. It's because they were only ever tested on Chrome during development.

To me it's not only a speed problem. Some pages directly won't work on Firefox because of some JS issue, but they do work in Chrome.

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Post by glandium »

mcv wrote: post #270
pornel wrote: post #117

I'm a tab hoarder, and I love the scrolling tab bar. No matter how many tabs I keep open, they remain readable, instead of squishing into ||||||||||||||.

Definitely. I wouldn't mind a feature that makes it easy to locate a particular tab, though. Often I know I've got it open somewhere but I just can't find it, causing yet another duplicate tab.

type % in the url bar, and keywords will search in your open tabs.

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Post by wolongong942 »

raffraffraff wrote: post #237

Recommend: 1. Sign up to Firefox sync 2. Install the Multi-Account Containers extension. Create containers to partition your identities. Eg: Banking, Shopping different Gmail accounts, different AWS console accounts etc 3. Install the "containerise" extension so you can create URL rules that automatically open sites in the correct container. (It can match URL regexes, allowing you to identify different accounts on ea…

In the wake of Lastpass there were some criticism of Firefox's password storage security IIRC, might look into that before using sync for passwords.

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Post by dedsm »

Vinnl wrote: 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…

Multi account containers + Temporary Containers [1] + I don't care about cookies [2] are an awesome combination I use, I have ~10 fixed containers and for almost everything it's a new container that lives as long as the tab is open.

[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/temporary-con... [2] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/i-dont-care-a...

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

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Post by readingnews »

pwg wrote: post #234
readingnews wrote: post #217

I use firefox a lot. When I have to build a PC / workstation for grad-students or labs, I install linux, and the distro I use has Firefox by default and no chrome installed. The number one complaint / request I receive when I build a PC / workstation for the grad-students after they get it? Can you please install Chrome? When I ask them... they have not even tried Firefox. Chrome is all they know, and therefore they…

> The number one complaint / request I receive when I build a PC / workstation for the grad-students after they get it? Can you please install Chrome? Have you tried changing the desktop Firefox icon to be chrome's icon and naming it Chrome? This complaint sounds like the old meme from years back of not so internet savy folks who thought "the internet" was inside "the blue ball" (the old IE icon). I.e., these student…

Ah, the old social behaviour experiment. I like it. I might change my image to reflect that.

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

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Post by neurostimulant »

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…

Good think with firefox is if an extension slow down a page, it'll tell you which extension to blame. I was having an issue with a page with a huge form loading super slow (10 minutes!) in chrome until I tried loading it on firefox and it told me that lastpass was the culprit.
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