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I'm back to using chrome.
I like customisation feature of Vivaldi but it lags in terms of speed. I still use Vivaldi on case basis (to read some sites' articles which have by default ads enabled)
Configuring browsers to mirror each other across machines makes a big soupy mess. I understand why surveillance capitalists like the idea, makes their lives a little easier. But I really don't get why I'm supposed to want it. I use different machines differently. The laptop I'm typing this on is my "main" browser, I have lots of bookmarks set up in a specific structure. I only use my phone browser when I have to, and…
Shoutout to the time I was looking at job listings on my cellphone, which then immediately popped up on my work computer in front of my coworkers. I didn't even know there _was_ a sync feature, it got turned on automatically after an update. Fun. No sync please.
Nobody implements proper context switching and privacy from yourself. The only kind of privacy anybody even acknowledges the existence is from 3rd parties.
> Recommended extensions are expected to:
Function extremely well. All Recommended extensions should not only perform as they promise, but do so at an exceptional level. For instance, there may be many ad blockers out there, but not all ad blockers are equally effective.
Be safe and secure. Recommended extensions undergo full code review by staff security experts to provide a strong additional security check.
Provide a delightful experience. Recommended extensions should embody great design and user experience standards.
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My experience has been quite different in that I don’t even have Chrome installed on my Windows machine just yet, because FF has been working fine for me for a long time. I like to use uBlock Origin and Privacy Badger. I don’t use the cloud sync feature myself, because I mostly switch between FF and Mobile Safari and I don’t know if there is a good sync solution, and I’d prefer not to send my usage history and stuff…
In most cases FF is blocked by useragent sniffing, so you just need an useragent changer addon
I love Firefox. It is a mystery to me why it is not more popular.
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Yes, E2EE.
The parent raised a good point tho. If you can add devices without entering encryption info, how can it be properly E2E?
It can’t. I don’t know about FF, but if you can add a device without explicit approval of one of your existing provisioned devices it is what I call Fake E2EE.
You see different providers go to great lengths to do device local encryption etc but due to product requirements (“what if a user loses their device or forgets their passphrase”) they keep a copy of the key, yet slaps the e2ee label on their product. So now it’s just regular encryption at rest with all the risks (subpoenas, rogue employees, company gets acquired, new CEO starts drooling over data broker dollars etc), only with much more technical complexity since data now needs to be read-writable client side by different software versions, increasing the risk of corruption, data loss and bugs.
Password managers with true e2ee actually suffer from these corruption issues from time to time. But that’s a price that must be paid for the e2ee level of security. It’s not for everyone – I wished there was more honesty around this instead of diluting meaningful and precise terms.
Edit: seems like FF has e2ee, see sibling comment.
It’s too bad that Firefox has such a great UX and privacy-focused cloud features like this, yet is being held back by its engine. As a heavy FF user for the last few years it’s become more and more clear that the world just doesn’t care about making sites work on FF and I’m more frequently having to switch to Chrome. My dream is that FF would switch to Chromium while keeping all the great features around the browser…
It's too bad that I can't read the article - because I'm using Firefox and an ad blocker. I get "Something went wrong. Please disable your blocker on How-To Geek"
It’s too bad that Firefox has such a great UX and privacy-focused cloud features like this, yet is being held back by its engine. As a heavy FF user for the last few years it’s become more and more clear that the world just doesn’t care about making sites work on FF and I’m more frequently having to switch to Chrome. My dream is that FF would switch to Chromium while keeping all the great features around the browser…
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In most cases FF is blocked by useragent sniffing, so you just need an useragent changer addon
This assertion doesn't match my experiences. I can't recall the last time a site gave a clear complaint about "we don't support firefox". I remember doing useragent modification 10-15 years ago, but more recently, when I tried to do it (I forget why), it seemed like changing the useragent has gotten less convenient, too (installing an addon feels worse than whatever I used to do). I also have the impression from podc…
I've avoided FF sync because I don't want my browser history on the cloud. I only really want my profile configuration, such as my addons and userjs flags. Unfortunately the FF directory in my .config is intermixed enough between config and content that I don't try to back it up. Am I missing something?
The sync contents are encrypted between devices. EDIT: After writing this, I realized I should investigate the claim, because new devices are added just by logging in, not by giving them any sort of password.