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Post by diggan »

ben0x539 wrote: post #206
weberer wrote: post #154

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It would be great if they allowed that for Ctrl+F as well. Jupyter Lab infuriates me with that.

(If I understand you correctly, a workaround is to switch focus to the address bar first so the ctrl-f goes to the browser chrome and not the page.)

(I'm not actually familiar with the issue but I imagine if they're "clever" enough to block CTRL+F, they probably also block CTRL+L which is supposed to change the focus to the URL bar. So in the end you have to resolve to using the mouse after all...)

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Post by avtolik »

zavertnik wrote: post #217
avtolik wrote: post #198

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Containers are the best. I use them every day. Also I switched from Tree Style Tab to Sidebery. I like it better for some reason.

I found a config that worked for me using TST so I haven’t explored other methods for vertical tabs. What eventually convinced you to try Sidebery and what convinced you not to switch back to TST? I’m curious what I’m missing out on!

Nothing major. It just feels sleek. I don't require much from these plugins.

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Post by soundnote »

jvehent wrote: post #224

The most compelling reason to use Firefox Sync is that it is client-side encrypted. Mozilla stores opaque encrypted blobs that it is entirely unable to decrypt. Law enforcement agencies request that data from time to time, hoping to obtain browsing history, only to be turned down thanks to the encryption. (disclaimer: former Mozilla security)

This is a big reason to avoid Edge: They have entire categories that aren't e2ee, browsing history being one of them. Chrome, IIRC, can have e2ee but the user has to turn it on.

Brave, Vivaldi and Firefox offer complete, e2ee sync solutions.

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Post by soundnote »

zero0529 wrote: post #187

One of my biggest gripes with Firefox sync is the way they have divided the mobile bookmarks from the pc ones. It makes the ux kinda weird as a lot of the bookmarks I use on my desktop I also use on my phone and vice verca. But when I add a bookmark on my phone it ends in a separate mobile bookmark folder.

Chromium browsers do a similar thing IME, and while I don't mind it, I don't like that the "mobile bookmarks" folder is only really accessible from the bookmark manager proper, not the bookmarks sidebar or the desktop bookmarks bar's UI.

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Post by zelon88 »

hackernewds wrote: post #171
Forgeties79 wrote: post #115

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It’s honestly things like this that make me respect (more than I already do) and stick with Firefox. They do not need to do that and in a lot of ways it’s just sticking their neck out for other developers/their users for very little gain on their part. Obviously, there are some benefits for them, but I think most people would agree that it’s mainly a risk at the end of the day.

with enough market share, if Google did this they would be cursed with numerous lawsuits for preferential selection and sued successfully

If Google did this there would be no more extensions on Chrome store because they'd have to remove them all.

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Post by mxmilkiib »

Toorkit wrote: post #209
loloquwowndueo wrote: post #175

Dunno, I’ve been using Firefox since before it was Firefox as my primary browser and I’ve never used sync. I don’t think that’s the most compelling feature.

It's not the most compelling feature for me, but I spend 2 hours on the bus every day and love being able to send a bunch of tabs that pop up on my desktop when I get home.

It can be neat, though my problem is I've several hundred tabs "archived" (discarded/hibernated/whatever) on the phone and and I want to open them all on the desktop at the same time to go through (I'd be very happy for the 10 minute wait, and/or if they were all discarded/hibernated, as doing them one by one would be an absolute chore), but trying to kills the desktop FF by making it hang then fall over!

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Post by soundnote »

ishanjain28 wrote: post #127
herdcall wrote: 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)

It's definitely suboptimal.

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Post by nolongerthere »

diggan wrote: post #251
ben0x539 wrote: post #206

Earlier quoted context omitted.

(If I understand you correctly, a workaround is to switch focus to the address bar first so the ctrl-f goes to the browser chrome and not the page.)

(I'm not actually familiar with the issue but I imagine if they're "clever" enough to block CTRL+F, they probably also block CTRL+L which is supposed to change the focus to the URL bar. So in the end you have to resolve to using the mouse after all...)

I doubt they care that you’re switching to the address bar, my guess is that most people don’t know the above trick that switching to the browser chrome allows you to get around ctrl+f hijacking.

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Post by andrepd »

j45 wrote: post #229
rideontime wrote: post #200

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If Containers is a sufficient alternative to Chromium's profiles, I'm switching, that was the only thing holding me back.

Containers is what every browser should be or have. Only Firefox as far as I know has containers as thoroughly. Chrome doesn’t. Safari has something similar.

I use first party isolation and block third party cookies (and delete first party ones on tab close). This is as if I had a "container" for every new website.

For my money this should be the default behaviour on ff.

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Post by nolongerthere »

zrobotics wrote: post #212
avg_dev wrote: post #185

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I’ll have to look into containers and tree style tabs. I have never knowingly used those.

Especially if you do any web development or IT, containers is great for testing different cookies. You can easily be logged in under multiple different accounts in the same browser window, which can be super useful for debugging certain issues tied to user accounts on a site. It's honestly such a useful feature that I'm shocked there isn't an alternative available in chrome, but it does also thwart tracking so I can…

Yup I use it to be logged into various azure accounts
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