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It's xkcd's, all the way down.
It really is https://xkcd.com/1416/
Incredible
Tell HN: Firefox Is an awesome browser right now
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Re: Tell HN: Firefox Is an awesome browser right now
#602I 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…
If you want a menu, and you're not on Mac where Firefox supplies a full set of menus by default like any other well-behaved Mac application, hit the "Alt" key on your keyboard. Or right click on the toolbar and show it. Honestly, I wish I could turn it off because I only ever activate it by accident when switching from Mac to Linux and forgetting to switch from Cmd to Ctrl.
> I vehemently disagree with almost all of its design decisions, and with every new release they seem to stray even farther from sane UX.
You're entitled to your opinion, certainly, but please do be aware that not everyone agrees with you? I quite like Alpenglow, I'm happy with the combined onmibar, I trust them to not to abuse their telemetry. My understanding is that the data suggests that more people use themes than use "regular" add-ons.
It's by no means perfect, but it's a whole lot better than one might expect from reading all the negative comments on pretty much any Firefox thread.
Re: Tell HN: Firefox Is an awesome browser right now
#603I 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…
As a long time FF user my opinion of it took quite a hit recently. I wanted to hack together a small personal extension, likely outside the scope of what Tampermonkey can do easily. I was really shocked by the mandatory signature enforcement. You need to get your extension signed by Mozilla with no way to disable it in the standard FF, the about:config setting does nothing (see [1]). Your temporary extension will als…
> I am not a web developer.
Maybe not, but you seem to be a browser extension developer.
Re: Tell HN: Firefox Is an awesome browser right now
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Try Profile Switcher for Firefox, which provides a Chrome-like interface for managing and switching between profiles in Firefox. Add-on: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/profile-switc... Source: https://github.com/null-dev/firefox-profile-switcher
My problem is opening links from apps. Sometimes I want a link in Slack (or other desktop apps) to open in my personal profile and sometimes I want it to use my work profile. With Brave/Chrome, the link will open in whatever profile window is active. I can't find a way to make this work with Firefox.
Have you tried making a different desktop entry/shortcut for each Firefox profile and then setting a browser picker as your default browser?
- Junction (Linux browser picker): https://github.com/sonnyp/Junction
- Finicky (macOS browser rule setter): https://github.com/johnste/finicky and Browserosaurus (macOS browser picker): https://github.com/will-stone/browserosaurus
- Hurl (Windows browser picker): https://github.com/U-C-S/Hurl
Re: Tell HN: Firefox Is an awesome browser right now
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The --new-instance flag lets you run multiple copies of even the same profile. https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/CommandLineOptions#-new-ins...
IME, starting Firefox with this flag, then (from the profile manager) picking an already-running profile, I get the fatal error: > Firefox is already running, but is not responding. To use Firefox, you must first close the existing Firefox process, restart your device, or use a different profile. So I guess it allows multiple instances but only with different profiles, at least on my system.
If that's true (I haven't tested), then --no-remote is what you're looking for.
Re: Tell HN: Firefox Is an awesome browser right now
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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…
>- Vertical/tree-style tabs: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/sidebery/ This is the biggest reason why Chrome sucks - they have no workable version of vertical tabs. Reasons why horizontal tabs are clearly inferior: 1. Screens (generally) have way more horizontal space than vertical and you read webpages vertically. I already have an OS top bar and a browser top bar taking some of this valuable vertical…
I used to work on the Opera browser. I quit when it got sold to China. Also wanted to do that, since most people as well as main Oslo HQ was fired from Poland a year earlier.
Opera was very much a not-dubious company. But that is what it has turned in to.
-- I use Firefox as my main work-browser, and have for a long time, and the last few years I've used Vivaldi as my main personal browser.
I find it easier to just have separate browsers rather than do anything more advanced for context. :)
Re: Tell HN: Firefox Is an awesome browser right now
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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…
I love tree style tabs and I really want to encourage people to set it up and really customize their user stylesheet to make the best use of it. I have removed all traces of the original tab bar at the top and the three primary window buttons (close, restore, minimize) giving me back lots of that precious vertical space. Their GitHub has a ton of CSS snippets to help you with customization. I'd also be happy to share…
@DangitBobby please share your user CSS file
Re: Tell HN: Firefox Is an awesome browser right now
#608I can't use Firefox in my work environment. It doesn't have some Chrome extensions that make it impossible for me to use, such as ones for Google services. It sucks because I dearly miss container tabs. If Firefox could support Chrome extensions, that would be game changer.
Re: Tell HN: Firefox Is an awesome browser right now
#609I was going to buy a Pixelbook Go since it's a well-made laptop and I like the simplicity of ChromeOS. Then I realized that the first app I'd install is Firefox since it's vastly superior when it comes to ad-blocking especially on Android.
Re: Tell HN: Firefox Is an awesome browser right now
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Are you on macOS? FF has some issues on macOS.
I wish we were on macOS, but unfortunately we only have access to Windows now. So it was on Windows 10 Home 2004. -Emily
I know a number of people using FF on Windows and they all find it works fine. Hmm.