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Re: Choose the browser that best suits your privacy needs

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Post by ranguna »

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. Specially the developer tools. I don't know how people can work with chrome's developer tools when Firefox's looks waaaaay better.

Re: Choose the browser that best suits your privacy needs

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Post by Aardwolf »

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've used mozilla/firefox for over 20 years (this includes mozilla browser before FF) on desktop and 10+ years on mobile, and don't have these problems.

Multiple firefox windows per virtual desktop with dozens of tabs each, no issues.

I use Chrome too, mainly for development (its JS dev tools), so I know what to compare to.

Re: Choose the browser that best suits your privacy needs

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Post by [deleted] »

theferalrobot wrote: post #93
jraph wrote: post #66

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Blink is the de facto web standard like it or not just like linux is for web hosting and both are open source and contributed to by many companies. Firefox is now in 5th place for browser market share and Mozilla is a dumpster fire of a company, imo it is only a matter of time before Firefox switches or completely folds.

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Re: Choose the browser that best suits your privacy needs

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Post by vandahm »

HenryBemis wrote: post #13
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 am sorry to see you have a bad experience with FF. It must be you and only you. I am sure that in your BAU you enjoy being tracked for everything you do, every page you see, etc. etc. I've been using FF since 2005 and I cannot remember when was the last time it crashed. Perhaps it did in 2008 (I remember having problems and FF crashing - and I was living in 'that flat' at the time. But no probs since.

I've had a similar experience. I've been using Firefox since it was Phoenix and I can count on my fingers the times when the browser actually crashed.

Re: Choose the browser that best suits your privacy needs

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Post by V__ »

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 had Firefox crash regularly when my GPU started failing, don't know why. But before that and after getting a new GPU zero crashes in years with 100+ tabs open regularly.

Re: Choose the browser that best suits your privacy needs

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Post by crashbunny »

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…

this works for me

env -i DISPLAY=$DISPLAY DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS=$DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS firefox

this doesn't, it gives me the "Firefox is already running, but is not responding." message

env -i DISPLAY=$DISPLAY firefox

Re: Choose the browser that best suits your privacy needs

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Post by kachurovskiy »

I've switched from Chrome to Firefox couple years ago. Very happy with ad blocking. The few problem are: PayPal asks for an SMS code way too often, some PayPal checkout flows don't work and occasionally some website form isn't functional because they didn't test in Firefox - for those cases I just open Chrome.

Re: Choose the browser that best suits your privacy needs

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Post by dale_glass »

erklik wrote: post #60
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 daily as my default, have roughly about 250 tabs open at this stage. I've not closed my browser in the last 6 or 7 months.. It's not crashed yet. Is it possible that it's some specific website your visiting?

There appear to be two specific issues for me.

One is that I use Bluetooth headphones, and with my coming and going sometimes something gets into some weird state. Youtube freezes, and sometimes Firefox locks up and crashes as well. This is probably Pipewire's/Fedora's fault primarily, but Firefox gets caught in it.

I also notice that a network drive getting stuck gets Firefox killed. Like if a NFS drive (which I'm not using right now, mind you) just isn't mounting because the VM that provides is down, and I open a file dialog, Firefox will get stuck then get killed after a few seconds.

I guess you could say that neither is exactly Firefox's fault, but I'd say it needs better error handling.

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