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Re: Choose the browser that best suits your privacy needs

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Post by Timber-6539 »

With uBlock Origin working as it works best on Firefox, I get a 3-5 sec lag on launch [0] as it prepares the browser to block ads.

With Chrome, the launch happens in an instant. I should also mention that Firefox has always had a slow start up time on my machine.

While am sure there is a setting to turn the uBlock feature off, it probably won't make enough of a difference to beat Chrome's start up time.

[0] https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/uBlock-Origin-works-b...

Re: Choose the browser that best suits your privacy needs

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Post by fyokdrigd »

qwertox wrote: post #228
nomilk wrote: post #73

FWIW I got annoyed with chrome's distracting home screen, and pondered how long it would take for a 10+ year chrome user to switch to firefox. The answer (on macOS) was 5 minutes. I was shocked how easy it was (and, frankly, how similar it was). When you first open firefox, it gives options to import all your chrome settings (including saved passwords etc). Super cool.

I've been using "New Tab Redirect" [0] on Chrome and "New Tab Override" [1] on Firefox for many years. They load a custom start page [2] I host locally which also pulls in some issues from Jira. Also "Keep One Pin Tab" [3] on Chrome to prevent that closing the last tab closes the browser. The same on Firefox but there I don't know what setting I'm using to make it behave that way (update: browser.tabs.closeWindowWith…

about:config, close on last tab close, set to false

Re: Choose the browser that best suits your privacy needs

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Post by jb1991 »

vasvae3 wrote: post #212
nomilk wrote: post #73

FWIW I got annoyed with chrome's distracting home screen, and pondered how long it would take for a 10+ year chrome user to switch to firefox. The answer (on macOS) was 5 minutes. I was shocked how easy it was (and, frankly, how similar it was). When you first open firefox, it gives options to import all your chrome settings (including saved passwords etc). Super cool.

You are annoyed with chrome's distracting home screen that shows your most visited sites but you are not annoyed with firefox's distracting home screen that shows your most visited sites plus some ads?

Long time Firefox user here, I’ve never seen ads in the browser.

I am on Mac, however. It looks like from the other comments, windows builds somehow have ads.

Re: Choose the browser that best suits your privacy needs

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Post by pmontra »

JonathanBeuys wrote: post #217
pmontra wrote: post #147

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You have to pass those environment variables to Firefox through sudo. sudo has a --preserve-env=list option but you must know the value for DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS. That's usually unix:path=/run/user/1000/bus where 1000 is the id of the user Firefox is running for. Your root console could have no DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS or have a different value for it. To be 100% sure of the value, as you are root you could look i…

Assuming it is "unix:path=/run/user/1000/bus", what would be the command to start Firefox as the normaluser with that setting?

I didn't test it but probably

  DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS=unix:path=/run/user/1000/bus \
  DISPLAY=:1 \
  sudo -H -u normaluser \
    --preserve-env=DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS,DISPLAY \
  firefox
I'd add -H to the options of sudo to make it set the home to normaluser's one.

I assumed that your DISPLAY is :1, which is what my Debian has set for me. That's another variable that you could read from the environment of Firefox.

You might have to pass/preserve other environment variables to make Firefox work.

Re: Choose the browser that best suits your privacy needs

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Post by netika »

I really, really want to switch from Vivaldi to Firefox, but I am just too accustomed to the workflow. The interface is too slick and it "just works".

I use vertical tabs with different workspaces, and although I am aware I can do it with extensions or userchrome in Firefox, I've found both variants pretty rough and unpolished -- and I don't have the time and energy to polish stuff that bothers me.

The biggest question for me is why nobody creates browsers based on FF engine and everyone uses chromium as a backbone for the browser. I would love to see something like Vivaldi or nyxt based on FF engine.

Re: Choose the browser that best suits your privacy needs

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Post by makeitdouble »

jb1991 wrote: post #295
vasvae3 wrote: post #212

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You are annoyed with chrome's distracting home screen that shows your most visited sites but you are not annoyed with firefox's distracting home screen that shows your most visited sites plus some ads?

Long time Firefox user here, I’ve never seen ads in the browser. I am on Mac, however. It looks like from the other comments, windows builds somehow have ads.

I think it's about the sponsored shortcuts in the default home screen.

I've had them as well (3 or 4, can't remember which ones. Amazon's search engine might have been one of them), removed them, done and done.

It's not a big deal, but it's still something.

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