Firefox even supports uBlock Origin on Android. It's priceless.
Choose the browser that best suits your privacy needs
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#412yeessirr
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#413Earlier quoted context omitted.
The way profiles (or tab containers) work in Firefox sucks compared to Chrome honestly. I could never find a way to open in the correct profile from external applications.
I find it annoying how I need a separate window for each profile in Chrome, I like that I can have one window and some windows are in the work container and some are not. You do need the (official) containers extension though.
I feel the opposite. Separate windows for each profiles make it much harder to accidentally mix the profile.
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#414FWIW 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 don't understand why people switch browsers. I have many browsers installed on my machine. For browsing I use a heavily modificated firefox. It would be difficult to use this browser for banking or even booking a plane ticket (plane booking websites can be quite fragile!). Use a browser for browsing, e.g. firefox with a tons of plus is, from ublock, noscript and a dozen others and use a main browser like chrome for…
With such a privacy-first config, might be easier to use librewolf as a base instead of plain firefox.
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#415Unfortunately, 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…
Yesterday, Firefox crashed on my girlfriend's PC. I can't remember seeing this happen before at all. It was such a rare thing that I'm investigating what happened now so I can send logs and/or create a bug report.
> thought it was just the code sucked. Nope, it's silky smooth in Chromium.
Is that a Firefox problem, or did they maybe code it Chrome-first and use some of Google's forced web "standards"?
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#416Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't use 3D modeling software, but I use a browser for like... 95% of my day. Any minor UX differences are going to be like nails on a chalkboard, given that. It's no wonder why people don't want to switch, really.
I don't know.. but.. it's the way people may use the computer. A former colleague used exactly one window, no matter if it's word or any other software. And most important: the other programs have to be closed, firstly, before switching to eg. browsing. Even my 85y old grandfather who bought his first computer with 73y is capable to use more then 2 windows at once. So for me, i work with chrome, edge and Firefox (mai…
450 open tabs? I really have to think it would be worth the time to adapt to using some kind of clipping/note-taking software instead.
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#417With 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://g…
I fail to understand this line of thinking. How often are you restarting the browser that this makes any significant difference in your productivity?
It was significant enough for me to notice. And it's about the subject. Doesn't matter how many times a day I launch my main browser.
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#418YouTube? Chrome? uBlock? Firefox? What's all this fuss about?
Just avoid the youtube.com domain like pest, period.
Set up a Piped instance or use your favourite one. You even get your playlists and subscriptions over RSS feeds instead of using Google's stinky, unstandardized and limited APIs, how cool is that? And wire it to Platypush + yt-dlp if you want the ability to scrape the media URL and cast it wherever you like.
If you still go directly to youtube.com to consume videos, without even using a Piped proxy as a digital condom, then it's your own fault. Ad blockers can only do that much against overtly hostile businesses that have enough engineering resources to invest in their overtly hostile practices.
What else is Google supposed to do to tell you that you can't trust them with anything? Is Sundar Pichai supposed to wear an evil mask like a Marvel villain before you understand that that company and whatever it touches is rotten and morally bankrupt to its core, that the only thing that prevents them from turning their products into big billboards with zero added value is the backlash from their own users, and that they're trying to find a sweet spot where they can enshittify their user experience to a point where they maximize the money they make out of data collection and ads, but without pushing too much to the point that too many users leave the platform?
The only way out is for EVERYONE to STOP sending a single direct byte to youtube.com. Pirate the shit out of them. And I honestly don't give a f*k anymore about hurting the creators that are still on YouTube. If you're a creator still publishing videos on that sewage, even if so many alternatives are available today, then you're part of the problem, and I no longer care if you lose your revenue.
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#419I have been a happy Firefox user for 15 years... maybe more. I have seen people use and complain Internet Explorer in my younger days, from version 6 to 7, etc. Even though I mention Firefox to them, they stay with IE. What amazes me is how quick they transitioned to Google Chrome when it released. This was around 2009. It amazes me how quick people jump to something especially when it has a big company behind advert…
> It amazes me how quick people jump to something especially when it has a big company behind advertising it. Because it works . Advertising works. That's the bane of the conflict of interest between companies and users of Ad blockers. We (technical users) cannot complain that companies should not use and abuse Ads, because at the same time we (humanity as a collective) constantly show once and again that Ads do work…
Humanity wants everything to work but we don't want to pay for it. I pay for my news but I wonder how soon news websites and related sites will start to block Firefox.
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#420Earlier 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?
It continues to surprise me that people use the home screen, regardless of it being Firefox or Chrome. New window, new tab, I always set that to a blank page, in my mind that should be the default.
It surprises me that you'd be surprised. It's convenient to have your most used sites a single click away on the new tab screen, and it still opens instantaneously, so I don't see any disadvantage. If there's something there you find distracting, you can remove it.