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Re: Firefox Sync actually works

#121
I switched back to firefox last year and haven't looked back. I still use chrome on another laptop sometimes, the performance difference from my human perspective is literally zero.

These days, it's much more common for me to encounter a website that works in firefox but not chrome than the other way around. I actually switched for good when I had to use firefox to file my taxes, because the IRS free self-file site was hopelessly broken on chrome.

Re: Firefox Sync actually works

#122

One of the things that I like about Firefox is that it lets you right click on websites that disable right clicking by holding down shift. Reminds you that the browser should be the user's agent and not the website's.

Wow i didn’t know that. So much thanks.

Re: Firefox Sync actually works

#123
post #6

Heh. Sync works on chrome too. IMO tree style tabs was the best thing firefox had and they killed it.

Tree style tabs works as well as it did before, except that it's more difficult to get rid of the top tabs.

Check out my userChrome changes if you're into vertical tabs and a minimal UI: https://github.com/bjesus/fireside

Re: Firefox Sync actually works

#124
post #67

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can selfhost the sync server

How is this working nowadays? A few years back it wasn't exactly easy to self host. Ideally there would be a docker image and a docker compose config.

I was looking at this recently and still couldn’t make it work smoothly. The server itself is fine but I couldn’t get Firefox to pick up the new sync server url from about:config.

Possibly my fault and I need to poke at it a little more but in general I can start a docker container just fine so I feel like its maybe not quite there yet.

Re: Firefox Sync actually works

#125

I have tried firefox, Vivaldi. But in terms of speed, when different sites load chrome fares better than them. 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)

If you install uBlock Origin all sites will load faster :)

And next year you'll only be able to do that in Firefox.

Re: Firefox Sync actually works

#126
For me, a fatal flaw with Firefox is that canvas getImageData doesn’t work like any other browser. Instead of returning the pixel values for the image loaded into the canvas, it gives the pixel values after they’ve been modified by the current screen/OS color profile. Other browsers seem to maintain the actual pixel values even if the OS later modifies the visual output of the application.

This means that any user trying to do any data work with my GIS software will regularly get wrong outputs if they use Firefox.

Re: Firefox Sync actually works

#127
post #8

Yes, it just works; but a few days back all my devices suddenly lost almost all of the passwords. Not all but most of them, couldn't make out any pattern or reason. Luckily a Linux laptop that I don't usually use had the full set and I had to export them, sync, and import them back to restore everywhere. Very scary, any ideas why this could've happened? I immediately backed up for the future, but this kind of loss sh…

is it a good idea to use password managers built into web browsers? (vs using a password manager from some third party? bw/1p)

Re: Firefox Sync actually works

#128
post #8

Yes, it just works; but a few days back all my devices suddenly lost almost all of the passwords. Not all but most of them, couldn't make out any pattern or reason. Luckily a Linux laptop that I don't usually use had the full set and I had to export them, sync, and import them back to restore everywhere. Very scary, any ideas why this could've happened? I immediately backed up for the future, but this kind of loss sh…

Weird, I'm using Firefox across 6 different devices, different OSes (Android, MacOS, various Linux distros) and different versions (current or LTS) and it just works.

Re: Firefox Sync actually works

#129

One of the things that I like about Firefox is that it lets you right click on websites that disable right clicking by holding down shift. Reminds you that the browser should be the user's agent and not the website's.

Ooh, that's a killer feature and this is the first I'm hearing about it! Thanks!

Re: Firefox Sync actually works

#130
post #26

Firefox has grown on me since Google's war on ad blockers made me feel like it's "their" browser not mine. (Which is true ofc. But still.)

tab containers are a huge bonus once you start using them that makes it very hard to look at other browsers again.

For the uninitiated: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/multi-account-conta...
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