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Re: Firefox has surpassed Chrome on Speedometer

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Post by dylan604 »

Jochim wrote: post #470
dylan604 wrote: post #397

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>Chrome's ability to temporarily edit and save changes to JS sources through the debugger editor is fantastic though. Does this affect the live code so the change is available immediately? I once had a thought about wondering if this was possible to have the change available without refreshing

As far as I know, you have to reload the page sadly.

It made no sense for how that could work that I could imagine, but it would be holycrapthatscool if it could. some sort of second JIT or something, but i can only imagine the security nightmare that'd open up

Re: Firefox has surpassed Chrome on Speedometer

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Post by midoridensha »

Faark wrote: post #484
fardo wrote: post #408

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To be fair, Firefox is also FOSS, contains an integrated password manager with extraordinarily well-integrated browser compatibility, and by opting to use a master password to encrypt or decrypt the store also gives you control over securitization, storage location, and generation. Not to say that KeePassXC isn’t useful if you want even more fine-grained controls, but it seems like in the > Use password in browser Us…

> adding a second component you need to trust I'd even say "adding a second vendor you need to trust". Yes, these days there seems to be a strong drive to just get a big package out of a single hand. Like having the browser closely tied to the OS. I don't like it. I prefer to choose the individual parts as i see fit. Keepass and some bit of custom sync, in this case. Now, in the same vein I expect MS & Google making…

>The Firefox Android Addon system is even worse... only a very short list of pre-approved extensions are available.

You need to install Firefox Nightly.

Re: Firefox has surpassed Chrome on Speedometer

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Post by ksec »

seba_dos1 wrote: post #17

There was a time when Firefox felt a lot slower than Chromium, but for a few years now it's been close enough (even if still somewhat slower) to not bother me, while Firefox clearly offers superior functionality and much better performance under high load. The last time Chromium has felt attractive compared to Firefox was a really long time ago. Glad to see it moving in the right direction still.

Partly because Chrome got a lot slower over time compared to its initial release. When everything was snappy.

Re: Firefox has surpassed Chrome on Speedometer

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Post by danShumway »

imdoor wrote: post #387
lelandbatey wrote: post #367

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It's ADHD sure, but it's also an unwillingness to close tabs, and (generally) that we have poor windowing systems that force us into ~1-2 browser windows at a time because browser windows are harder to manage than tabs. The big change for me has been realizing that all my "tabs" are still there, in the form of my browser history, or if not, via Google search. If I can't find my way back to a website via my history or…

Most of the times when I've tried finding stuff in (Firefox) history, I wasn't able to. Unless it's in the last week or so. In my experience, history filtering and search options are too basic to be useful. Once I was even desperate enough to try to load some Firefox sqlite file directly, hoping to query history entries, but that didn't work out. The only reliable way that I've come across for finding stuff after a l…

> Most of the times when I've tried finding stuff in (Firefox) history, I wasn't able to. Unless it's in the last week or so.

I mentioned this below, but check to see what your history limits are in Firefox (https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1039372). It's possible if you do enough browsing that you might have trouble finding older pages because they're not there anymore.

I'm not sure what the best mitigation is for that, I've kind of accepted that history for Firefox is short-term, not long-term. It might be possible to rig up a webextension to save history more permanently, but I suspect it would need to do native messaging I think to do that, and at that point maybe it's better to just do regular copies of the SQLite database.

Relying on Firefox history less also has the kind of minor advantage of allowing you to be more aggressive about cleaning it yourself, which can have a noticeable performance impact in some cases.

Re: Firefox has surpassed Chrome on Speedometer

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Post by Thorham »

NavinF wrote: post #204
backendanon wrote: post #147

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I'm old and I code for a living, I have maybe at most a dozen tabs open on any day. I can't imagine needing 80 but now I see why chrome has that new search tabs drop down.

I usually have 600 tabs across several windows and desktops. Doesn't hurt performance if you have 64G or more so the real question is "why not?". Switching to an open tab using title text search is way faster than opening a bookmark

"why not?"

Simple, 20 tabs already drives me nuts.

Re: Firefox has surpassed Chrome on Speedometer

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Post by charcircuit »

BizarroLand wrote: post #468
charcircuit wrote: post #443

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>Chrome's manifest v3's entire purpose for existence is to ultimately snuff out ad blockers There is no evidence of that, while there is evidence that manifest v3 provides security, privacy, and performance benefits. Manifest v3 doesn't stop ad blocking from working. >so they can make the internet worse for everyone Ads make the internet better for everyone since it provides a monetization model for sites to give awa…

If you're going to lick ad company boots, at least spit shine your spelling first.

I am not licking anything.

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Post by oneTbrain23 »

JohnFen wrote: post #464
seti0Cha wrote: post #453

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What is your biggest concern? I would think key loggers are a more common threat than attacks on the password manager directly, especially if you're running something niche. What else do you gain from keeping it air gapped?

Keyloggers rank low for me because I'm only using my own devices that I have physical control over, so a dongle is unlikely. A keylogger would have to come in through malware. That's certainly possible, but if malware were able to get installed despite my other protections, then I probably have much larger issues. And the keylogger would have to phone home with the data, which is unlikely (but not impossible) to happ…

Antivirus can detect keyloggers. So much less threat compare to losing entire key db.

Re: Firefox has surpassed Chrome on Speedometer

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Post by evulhotdog »

LargeDiggerNick wrote: post #4

After this quick switch profile addon was release I have been 100% on firefox and love it.

The thing that has me stuck on Chrome is that it doesn’t automatically open the profile you last had focus of. For example, if I have last touched my personal profile I don’t want to open a new link from Slack in my work profile.

Having the ability to only default to one really sucks.

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Post by [deleted] »

JohnFen wrote: post #407
FirmwareBurner wrote: post #394

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>But I completely trust Firefox on the password issue, to the point that I let it generate them for me. Not that I don't trust them but I always recommend using a dedicated PW manager like KeePassXC which is FOSS and has been security audited, plus it gives you full control over where you get to store your PWs and how they're secured and generated.

I'm even stricter than you. I use a password manager, but on a separate device from where I use passwords and it does not talk over the network. Wen I use a password, I look it up and type it in by hand. No autofill is possible, intentionally.

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Re: Firefox has surpassed Chrome on Speedometer

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Post by justinclift »

svl wrote: post #352
justinclift wrote: post #73

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Interesting. That gives me hope that there might indeed be a setting to change the behaviour. Thanks. :)

browser.history.maxStateObjectSize and places.history.expiration.max_pages (both accessible through about:config) should be the settings to modify. Do a web search for those properties to get more information on how they interact.

Fantastic! Thank you. :)
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