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Browsers are so similar these days, web standards are so well defined, I see little reason to code Chrome-only sites. Having been through the IEs of the 90s/00s, I feel proud that we managed to scape what seemed an irreversible fate and a sense of responsibility to do whatever I can to help prevent it from happening again.
Try to use WebUSB or WebGPU on Firefox.
For some reason, new Firefox windows can only be launched from the same environment from which the first window has been started. Even the same user who started FF cannot launch a new window from a new shell. That constantly interferes with my workflow. Example: Say firefox has been started from the Destop already and now I want to start a new Firefox window from a root terminal: su desktopuser firefox It does not wo…
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I think that would mess up your user profile if two instances tried to handle it at the same time. Depending on your use case Docker may be a solution.
I don't want "two instances". I just want to trigger Firefox to open a new window. Just like it does when I press CTRL+n.
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Are you comfortable handing Google the power to dictate the future of the Internet?
The Firefox foundation is the one who ceded power through poor decisions. Devs don't get to decide what users browse on. All users use chrome today and that's it.
Must join the choir and say that eventhough I have been a die hard FF fan, its gotten to the point of an impending divorce if performance doesn’t get better. I find myself switching to chromium more and more often. And then there are the extensions, that I sometimes can’t find for Firefox. That’s a minor annoyance than anything else though. There are also a bunch of things that keeps me with FF. multi container tabs…
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So it isn't as well defined as the parent was making it. Thanks to Chrome worshipping, there is no Web anymore, Apple is the only wall preventing Web developers to replace Web with ChromeOS on their CV.
That is not true, two harmful environments does not make either one a saviour, they are simply making web development worse.
Doesn't matter how good or evil they happen to be.
No one cares about Firefox, apparently not even the large majority of HN folks.
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That's not really how I remember it. I remember everyone switching to Mozilla and Firefox because they had great features around bookmarks, themes, and extensions. Then I remember everyone switching to Chrome because it was so fast to launch. Meanwhile, devs were still targeting IE because it was where the users were. It was totally preferable to develop for Chrome or Firefox, but I recall spending countless hours st…
Firefox was a better product because it was faster, had tabs, etc and it generally rendered pages as expected. That, in a large part, was on web developers, making sure the user who took the leap had a good time on arrival.
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Try to use WebUSB or WebGPU on Firefox.
WebGPU is fairly recent and WebUSB is in the category of “why would I ever want my browser to access USB”, for me.
Why isn't there an API for writing devtools, so that we can have some more competition in this space?
We need less API/standard, not more. To have more competition in web devtools, we need to simplify the web standard so more browser can appear instead of forcing some new fancy API on our almost monopoly.
For some reason, new Firefox windows can only be launched from the same environment from which the first window has been started. Even the same user who started FF cannot launch a new window from a new shell. That constantly interferes with my workflow. Example: Say firefox has been started from the Destop already and now I want to start a new Firefox window from a root terminal: su desktopuser firefox It does not wo…