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

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Post by mr_sturd »

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…

> Chrome was the one who invented the "clean look"

Ironic naming given their aim was to get rid of as much chrome as possible.

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Post by rrishi »

starik36 wrote: post #210
marginalia_nu wrote: post #187

Earlier 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

Curious to know the set of extensions you've got there

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

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Post by throwaway290 »

kiliankoe wrote: post #323
rovr138 wrote: post #296

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

That's cool, thanks! But there's no way to hide the normal tab bar, is there?

Not yet but I hope Apple brings it back. It used to be possible

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

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Post by nashashmi »

smiley1437 wrote: post #179
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…

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

Use profiles to separate work for each tenant, whether you use firefox or chrome. Firefox supports multiple profiles too! Chrome supports multiple profiles. And launching chrome/firefox with certain profiles requires setting up shortcuts with --flags. So you can have one browser shortcut for one tenant and another shortcut for another tenant.

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

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Post by zorrolovsky »

marginalia_nu wrote: post #134

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…

I agree with your sentiment. To address privacy concerns I decided to use a privacy-oriented fork: LibreWolf - https://librewolf.net/. I use it as a daily driver for all my use cases and it works like a charm (inc extensions).

It is frustrating that Mozilla/firefox position themselves as user friendly and privacy-focused but they don't walk the talk. It's all marketing lies so my sympathy for the org is on an all-time low.

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

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Post by bmacho »

No it is not. In the past months/years they removed:

    - ability to zoom out images. Firefox has two different zooms, but none of them can zoom out images. If an image doesn't fit your screen, you can't see it period. 
    - ability to open an image in the same window 
    - ability to use different search engine in the search bar and URL bar 
    - ability to quickly change search engine clicking the magnifier icon top right
    - custom search engine URLs
    - showing download speed
I bump these into like every day, and they cause me minutes of annoyances. (and probably some others I can't recall now)

Firefox 2 years ago was a way better browser than it is now. And a lot of things still missing, like proper profiles.

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

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Post by isleyaardvark »

imiric wrote: post #311
aliqot wrote: post #253

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

It’s only a “retort” if you read it uncharitably, and there’s no reason to do that.

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

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Post by bmn__ »

lucky_cloud wrote: post #126

I'd like to use FF but I've never been able to figure out how to replicate something Safari does that's ingrained in my fingers at this point. In Safari, I can use command+1-9 to open bookmarks. So command+1 is my PRs, command+2 is the JIRA board for the current sprint, etc.

You can give bookmarks nicknames, e.g. "PR". You can activate those from the location bar by typing the nickname. Then set up a keyboard macro that maps + to +,

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