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.
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Firefox Sync actually works
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#132Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Don't use your personal account on your work browser. Or, actually, on anything in your work. (And the other way around too.) Nobody implements proper context switching and privacy from yourself. The only kind of privacy anybody even acknowledges the existence is from 3rd parties.
Personal account? Account? When I switch from my desktop to my laptop and back, I sometimes get an extra Firefox icon in my dock. I once hovered over it and I think it was the sync feature.
I don't have a Firefox account and I'm not signed in into any browser on any account. Why does it try to sync things without my permission?
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#133One 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.
This one's niche, but Firefox's dev tools also let web developers see which font is actually being used. Chrome's dev tools only show you what font is supposed to be in use, but doesn't tell you if it had to resort to a fallback font.
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#134Unpopular opinion: did OP tried Vivaldi?
Vivaldi is great, but its sync is basically the same as Chrome's. I often see a sync delay of several minutes when switching devices. Do you know if there's a setting for sync frequency?
Aside: my favorite parts of Vivaldi are its workspaces, tabs stacks, and other tab management features. I really wish these features were integrated into its sync!
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#135I 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 w…
Ad blockers break the websites far more often than any browser compat issues.
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#136I never had the urge to switch from Firefox to any other browser, it's the first application that gets installed on any personal device after setup.
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#137Why would anyone need a reason? I mean it seriously. Chrome users on this platform really baffling for me. They know what the consequences are, they know quite well what the icon with their picture on the corner does. Still being OK with this is super interesting. Most products are often get grilled here for having closed code parts or similar concerns but when it comes to giving complete audit of their online existe…
Firefox stutters. Every couple of seconds, if I'm doing anything active on the page, it freezes up for a fraction of a second. I have no idea if that's a garbage collection issue or what, but it makes it painful to use. That being said, I'm on Safari instead. Chrome doesn't make me happy.
I've never seen this, and I've used FF (well, LibreWolf) on everything from a 2003-ish laptop to a 12th gen i5. I assume you've filed a bug report?
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#138Chrome history is confusing and bad. They broke history out into 2 things at some point, where you have "history" and something that I see now is called "groups" and of course I was able to look it up and see, yes, Google is once again gaslighting with random name changes and it was called "journeys" until a few months ago. It's some vague grouping of history as a list of pages you visited in sequence from an initial search, or perhaps starting from a new tab? And for some reason this tends to contain pages that the regular history doesn't.
I wonder how much money was spent on designing and implementing this stupid unnecessary reimagining of browser history that only serves to make things more confusing.
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#139I love Firefox. It is a mystery to me why it is not more popular.
For me the deal breaker is that it doesn’t use native UI elements on macOS which means patterns such as invoking menu items using the keyboard behave differently.
Does Chrome? Can't say I notice too much of a difference here on my macbook, other than slight color choices and paddings and whatever the 2 UIs are basically indistinguishable to me
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#140Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't know what criteria is required to meet an E2EE (End to end encryption?) standard. In general though, the info is stored on Mozilla's (or an affiliate's) cloud.[0] 1. If you lose your password and didn't setup a separate password recovery code (one time codes), then your data is toast. You can't reset your password via email without wiping your cloud data because mozilla uses your password in a hashing algorit…
> I don't know what criteria is required to meet an E2EE (End to end encryption?) standard. Only sender and receiver (the “ends”) can decrypt the data, ie have the keys. In this case both ends are “you”, and the passphrase is the authentication for new devices. For e2ee to hold, neither the passphrase nor the key can be shared with another party, for instance Mozilla. > 1. If you lose your password and didn't setup a…
OK. It sounds like E2EE encryption in effect because Mozilla encrypts your cloud data with a password hashing algorithm.
[I edited my comment above to get into more nuance about password reset is possible, but wipes data.]
If you lose your Mozilla account password, you can reset it, but
> Any data you have on the server will be erased when you reset your password (unless you use recovery keys). Your other devices will stop synchronizing unless you update them with the new password.[0]
[0] https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/ive-lost-my-firefox-syn...