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Re: Choose the browser that best suits your privacy needs

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Post by 632brick »

mrweasel wrote: post #400
vasvae3 wrote: post #212

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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.

I wish "new tab" could show me all my bookmarks instead because I have already plenty interesting pages bookmarked to read, but I never use them.

Re: Choose the browser that best suits your privacy needs

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Post by ghusto »

eloisant wrote: post #372
kemotep wrote: post #331

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You can set up specific domains to open up in specific tab containers. Obviously for sites that you have never visited before this complicates things unless you have the default tab container be your “throwaway” or not personally identifying profile. The experience there isn’t perfect and requires some effort to setup but how is that different than getting certain sites to open in specific chrome profiles automatical…

Yes but that doesn't help for domains that I use for both profiles. Typically Google, when I click on a Google Doc I need to be able to decide to open it in my personal or pro account. With Chrome it goes to the last focused window so it will usually match what I'm currently doing, otherwise all I have to do is focus the right Chrome window before going back to the external app and click the link.

> Yes but that doesn't help for domains that I use for both profiles

Why not? Since Google's multiple-account handling is awful, I use Container Tabs for keeping my accounts separate. In this case I'm asked if I want to use the container profile I've explicitly set for Google (my work account), or the one I'm currently in.

Re: Choose the browser that best suits your privacy needs

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Post by FirmwareBurner »

bad_user wrote: post #190
subtra3t wrote: post #163

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I use Vivaldi (and firefox before that) but a reason to use Edge is because it's supposedly very resource-efficient.

It's the same Chromium, it can't be more resource-efficient. It did have some tricks, but “energy saver” and “memory saver” modes have been added to Chromium.

It can be more efficent on Windows where Edge is first class passenger similar to how Safari is more efficient on MacOS. Try looking at battery life. You can easily squeeze more juice on Edge than on FF/Chrome.

Re: Choose the browser that best suits your privacy needs

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Post by Moldoteck »

esperent wrote: post #408
mariusmg wrote: post #184

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Yeah, you're switching browsers not 3D modelling software. It's easy people. Switch to Firefox today.

All Chromium-based browsers have a feature that I can't get through my day without. I can write click on any website and say " translate this page into English ". I use this feature around 20 times a day, sometimes more. It's painstaking to do this in Firefox, even with extensions. Once every year or two I try switching to Firefox, then I remember this is the reason why I don't use it and I go back to Chrome. The day…

Afaik they do have an official offline translation extension Forefox Translations that would cover your usecase(maybe) Ff also does have a Translations setting in their settings page(not sure if it's by default or appears when you install the extension) and you can predownload some offline language packs.

Re: Choose the browser that best suits your privacy needs

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Post by bjord »

esperent wrote: post #408
mariusmg wrote: post #184

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Yeah, you're switching browsers not 3D modelling software. It's easy people. Switch to Firefox today.

All Chromium-based browsers have a feature that I can't get through my day without. I can write click on any website and say " translate this page into English ". I use this feature around 20 times a day, sometimes more. It's painstaking to do this in Firefox, even with extensions. Once every year or two I try switching to Firefox, then I remember this is the reason why I don't use it and I go back to Chrome. The day…

ask and you shall receive (as of firefox 118)

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/website-translation

if you need a language they haven't developed a production model for yet, you can install the beta version of the add-on, which supports more languages

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-translations-ad...

Re: Choose the browser that best suits your privacy needs

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Post by wkat4242 »

Dah00n wrote: post #394
wkat4242 wrote: post #302

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Yeah I don't understand Microsoft trying to push Edge so much and more so, people actually falling for it. They're admitting that they are unable to build a good browser themselves, then they basically rip off chrome and skin it up a bit and we're supposed to think it's amazing?? And then they start adding all this scamware like the "shopping assistant" and "buy now pay later" scams. Google doesn't even go that far a…

> I would use the real thing and not the knockoff. So you are not a fan of Brave either? A lesser Devil is still a Devil, after all.

Nope definitely not.

Besides it reusing the engine supporting Google's monopoly I also don't like the BAT token concept.

Re: Choose the browser that best suits your privacy needs

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Post by Moldoteck »

ghusto wrote: post #436
eloisant wrote: post #246

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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.

You don't need profiles in Firefox, there's a much better solution called Container Tabs. If you're using profiles to keep things like work and play separate, check it out and thank me later ;)

Afaik it's better in some ways, worse in others(addon management for example)

Re: Choose the browser that best suits your privacy needs

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Post by bsenftner »

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.

Is anyone else having issues logging in, via username & password, to OpenAI.com with Firefox? That is the only reason I'm launching Chrome these days, OpenAI's login gives an error saying I refreshed while logging in, don't do that and try again... in a loop.

Re: Choose the browser that best suits your privacy needs

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Post by ghusto »

Moldoteck wrote: post #448
ghusto wrote: post #436

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You don't need profiles in Firefox, there's a much better solution called Container Tabs. If you're using profiles to keep things like work and play separate, check it out and thank me later ;)

Afaik it's better in some ways, worse in others(addon management for example)

Yes, addons are shared, along with their configuration. Not an issue for me, since that's what I want, but I've heard others complain about that.
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