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Re: Choose the browser that best suits your privacy needs

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Post by gerwim »

JonathanBeuys wrote: post #33

My problem with Firefox is that a new Firefox windows can only be launched from the same environment (or only from a child process?) 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 roo…

If you create a new profile for the different user, you can start a second session:

firefox -new-instance -P "Another Profile"

Re: Choose the browser that best suits your privacy needs

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Post by psychoslave »

JonathanBeuys wrote: post #33

My problem with Firefox is that a new Firefox windows can only be launched from the same environment (or only from a child process?) 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 roo…

Can’t you use -P for that kind of case?

Re: Choose the browser that best suits your privacy needs

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Post by calmoo »

MattPalmer1086 wrote: post #31
self_awareness wrote: post #26

Firefox looks ugly, I really can't accept it. The only way of it looking less ugly is to do some unofficial tweaks which break from version to version. I was a Firefox user for years until they've changed the UI, and now I can't go back because of how it LOOKS. Also, the Mozilla ideology. Why can't the browser be just a piece of software and that's it? I just use Vivaldi. Edit: I can sense that Firefox zealotry is st…

Funny, I use Firefox and think Chrome looks a bit uglier. A lot is simply what you're used to. Don't let your initial aesthetic reaction dictate your browser choice. It's really not ugly; just a tiny bit different.

Same here, I much prefer the Firefox UI. Chrome feels somehow dated to me.

Re: Choose the browser that best suits your privacy needs

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Post by teddyh »

JonathanBeuys wrote: post #33

My problem with Firefox is that a new Firefox windows can only be launched from the same environment (or only from a child process?) 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 roo…

I have very recently begun to see this bug; A workaround is that if you start a new Firefox from a shell on your desktop, then running “firefox” from a shell, even a different shell window, will work fine. I haven’t been able to find out why.

Re: Choose the browser that best suits your privacy needs

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Post by JonathanBeuys »

gerwim wrote: post #41
JonathanBeuys wrote: post #33

My problem with Firefox is that a new Firefox windows can only be launched from the same environment (or only from a child process?) 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 roo…

If you create a new profile for the different user, you can start a second session: firefox -new-instance -P "Another Profile"

I don't have (nor want) multiple users.

I just want to open a new window for my one user.

Re: Choose the browser that best suits your privacy needs

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Post by calmoo »

dale_glass wrote: post #29

Unfortunately, Firefox isn't quite keeping up. One issue is that for me at least, Firefox crashes too often, and when it does, the entire browser goes away, not just the tab. That's annoying. Another issue is that something seems to be lacking performance-wise. I messed around a bit with Invoke AI, and the canvas is painfully slow even on modern, high end hardware. I thought it was just the code sucked. Nope, it's si…

YMMV. Firefox hasn’t crashed in years for me.

Re: Choose the browser that best suits your privacy needs

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Post by erinnh »

Alifatisk wrote: post #22
2Gkashmiri wrote: post #2

ublock origin and not ublock. there is a very important distinction. please fix this

What’s the digference?

It’s the original project that the original developer gave to somebody else, but then decided to continue working on the project anyway under the „Origin“ moniker.

At some point ublock was sold and to quote Wikipedia: „since February 2019, uBlock began allowing users to participate in "Acceptable Ads",[21][22] a program run by Adblock Plus that allows some ads which are deemed "acceptable", and for which the larger publishers pay a fee.“

Re: Choose the browser that best suits your privacy needs

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Post by dkarras »

dale_glass wrote: post #29

Unfortunately, Firefox isn't quite keeping up. One issue is that for me at least, Firefox crashes too often, and when it does, the entire browser goes away, not just the tab. That's annoying. Another issue is that something seems to be lacking performance-wise. I messed around a bit with Invoke AI, and the canvas is painfully slow even on modern, high end hardware. I thought it was just the code sucked. Nope, it's si…

interesting. I can't remember a time where a browser crashed on me during the last 15 years or so. and I do heavy dev work with them, and also browse with tens of open tabs multiple hours pretty much every day.

Re: Choose the browser that best suits your privacy needs

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Post by MattPalmer1086 »

jpdus wrote: post #10

Don't switch to FF if you're a heavy user. I am on Firefox as my main browser for web and mobile since 4 years. I am just in the process of switching back to Chrome, as Firefox got continuously worse over time. Can't handle lots of tabs, crashes/freezes randomly, weird UI bugs... It's just very disappointing :/.

I think you're over generalising your bad experience on desktop. I've used Firefox since it was called Phoenix on numerous Windows and Linux machines and I don't recall ever having those problems.

Mobile Firefox I completely agree. That was a complete mess after they rewrote it. Crashes, UI bugs, you name it. I tried, but eventually couldn't take it any more and switched to Opera for Android which works nicely enough for me. The only thing mobile Firefox had in common with the desktop is the product name, they aren't the same software at all. Very disappointing.

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