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Re: Choose the browser that best suits your privacy needs

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Post by nstart » Mon, Nov 27, 2023, 8:40 AM UTC

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…

Curious what use case you are looking at for over here? I don't want to make any assumptions. I'm wondering if what you are looking for might be covered by the functionality of tab containers.

Re: Choose the browser that best suits your privacy needs

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Post by AraceliHarker » Mon, Nov 27, 2023, 8:40 AM UTC

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?

Originally, Raymond Hill developed uBlock, but he gave it away because it was too much work. However, the new owner of uBlock turned it into a spamware, so Hill forked uBlock and created uBlock Origin, which is still under development today.

Re: Choose the browser that best suits your privacy needs

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Post by gardenhedge » Mon, Nov 27, 2023, 8:41 AM UTC

seanthemon wrote: post #57

Highly recommend brave (with all the crypto nonsense shut off), it's a pretty fast browser, nice features and works with chrome extensions. I've used it successfully for the past 3 or something years

When I tried Brave, it blocked website ads but gave me browser ad popups on the top right. No thanks. Stick to Firefox.

Re: Choose the browser that best suits your privacy needs

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Post by rrreese » Mon, Nov 27, 2023, 8:41 AM UTC

I tried moving to Firefox a year ago but found that the lack of Tab Groups really killed me.

There are several extensions that try to emulate this behaviour, but I didn't find that they worked particularly well. And then there are the security concerns.

I guess when Chrome break uBlock Origin next year I'll give Edge a go, or one of the various chromium builds

Re: Choose the browser that best suits your privacy needs

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Post by OvbiousError » Mon, Nov 27, 2023, 8:41 AM UTC

calmoo wrote: post #46

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.

Same. I vaguely remember a time where this happened from time to time, but that is years and years ago.

Re: Choose the browser that best suits your privacy needs

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Post by jraph » Mon, Nov 27, 2023, 8:42 AM UTC

seanthemon wrote: post #57

Highly recommend brave (with all the crypto nonsense shut off), it's a pretty fast browser, nice features and works with chrome extensions. I've used it successfully for the past 3 or something years

But it's doing Google's game by being based on Blink.

Re: Choose the browser that best suits your privacy needs

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Post by bluecalm » Mon, Nov 27, 2023, 8:42 AM UTC

seanthemon wrote: post #57

Highly recommend brave (with all the crypto nonsense shut off), it's a pretty fast browser, nice features and works with chrome extensions. I've used it successfully for the past 3 or something years

Brave might be the best thing to come out of the crypto era :) I hope it will somehow survive both Chrome changes and crypto dying off.

Re: Choose the browser that best suits your privacy needs

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Post by gardenhedge » Mon, Nov 27, 2023, 8:42 AM UTC

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…

I use Firefox, Edge and Vivaldi on a 8 year old mac book pro. I do not notice any difference in performance with any of them.

Re: Choose the browser that best suits your privacy needs

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Post by erklik » Mon, Nov 27, 2023, 8:42 AM UTC

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 :/.

> Don't switch to FF if you're a heavy user

I currently have over 250 tabs open, all actually open actively running things in the background, and I haven't closed my two Firefox windows in the last 6-7 months. I constantly run fairly heavy CPU-usage web apps and FF's not crashed in the last 6 months at least..

Let's not generalise your experience to the rest.. Like "It runs on my machine" isn't a valid statement usually, "It doesn't run on my machine" also mostly isn't.

Re: Choose the browser that best suits your privacy needs

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Post by PetitPrince » Mon, Nov 27, 2023, 8:42 AM UTC

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 :/.

> Can't handle lots of tabs

As someone with a tab counter routinely in the 60s (Tree Style Tabs is life), I can only offer you a "it works fine with me (tm)" counterpoint. I only noticed show-stopping performance issue way back when I tried to dabble my feet in the Apple ecosystem back in 2009 (I began using FF shortly after it was renamed from Firebird).