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

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Post by fIREpOK »

> 3. Extensions ecosystem is thriving . I was glad to find my old favorite: Dark Reader. But I have also found a new favorite - Tab Stash. I also found an extension to download Youtube videos - Video Downloader, something I didn't find in Chrome

https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2020/09/29/expanded-extensio...

About 2.5 years ago, extensions came back in Firefox mobile Nightly and it is still a hidden feature in mainstream Firefox?

I just had to reinstall Firefox Mobile, and tried to re-add my addon collection and I get the following error messages "No addons here", "Failed to query addons" ... Why are cumbersome collections required to access the addons that you love?

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

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Post by culi »

People use a browser, overload it with extensions, then try a new one and are impressed by how fast it is lol

On benchmarks, both Firefox and Chrome have their advantages and disadvantages. One thing about Firefox is it has a richer extension ecosystem so you're probably even more likely to fall into the trap of overloading your browser with extensions

However since real adblocking is threatened in Chrome's future and adblockers can significantly improve performance on some sites, I wouldn't be surprised if eventually this works to Firefox's benefit

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

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Post by altairprime »

jeroenhd wrote: post #413
altairprime wrote: post #372

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Telemetry is not synonymous with tracking. You can implement telemetry while not tracking users. You can track users without telemetry. There is a lot of telemetry , but there doesn’t seem to be any tracking.

What's the difference here? There's a unique client ID included in the report, so that means statistics can be tracked at the individual level. In theory you can have telemetry without tracking but I'm pretty sure nobody does it anymore.

Telemetry analysis doesn’t care who you are, and makes no effort to find out, even if it’s plausible that one could find out of effort was taken to do so.

Tracking analysis does care who you are, and makes every effort to find out, whether to sell marketing to you or to sell your data to others.

It isn’t necessary to deanonymize telemetry to make use of it, and it’s quite costly to do so (both in PII storage duties to GDPR et al. and in enrichment terms), so tracking isn’t knowingly done by default by lots of telemetry implementers (for example, Homebrew).

Note that telemetry implemented using Facebook clearly does end up with Facebook trying to track you in order to sell you ads and sell your data; implementation decisions are critically relevant when it comes to collecting telemetry, in order to not accidentally cause tracking.

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

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Post by bmacho »

PaulDavisThe1st wrote: post #420
bmacho wrote: post #347

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 - custo…

zoom: not experienced here. I just visited a page with an image that doesn't (naturally) fit; Ctrl-scroll zooms it to fit (and back) image in same window: seems true, but i can't imagine why you'd want this search engines: I use single letter keywords to drive this. "g foobar" searches on google for foobar. "d foobar" searches duckduckgo. "o foobar" searches on google maps. Never had any desire to "quickly change the…

Zoom is my wrong, I've set away browser.zoom.full option to text only.

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

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Post by bmacho »

unethical_ban wrote: post #381
bmacho wrote: post #347

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 - custo…

In Firefox Developer Edition Desktop, I was able to - Quickly change search engine clicking magnifier icon top right - Set a custom search engine keyword ("wiki" + search term in the URL) via right-clicking a search bar - View download speed of an ISO file - Zoom images in and out, both as part of a page and as a standalone file I was not able to right-click > open image in same tab, or have different default engines…

Zoom is my wrong, I've set away browser.zoom.full option to text only.

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

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Post by culi »

Vinnl wrote: post #75
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…

And some more tips: - Translate web pages locally, without sending any data to remote servers: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/firefox-translation... - Vertical/tree-style tabs: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/sidebery/ - If you're in the EU: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/consent-o-matic/ - If you use RSS: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/feed-preview/ And I assume you've al…

feed preview seemed to break my browser since I have a ton of tabs open all the time. Not sure why the extension causes this, but just a head's up

Firefox has a really great json viewer that I prefer even over my IDE, but it's one weakness is it's lack of XML support which Chrome does have :/

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

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Post by t235a »

rrishi wrote: post #59
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.

Interesting, I haven't run into it as upto now and I was checking some pretty cool and intense CodePens earlier. I'll look into some threeJS demos to see how it goes (ex. https://bruno-simon.com/ ). Are there any other specific JS demos you've had a bad experience with?

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