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Re: Why I use Firefox

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Post by wtf_srsly »

mrwizardno2 wrote: post #11

> Mozilla says that they can’t (decrypt my data on their servers), and I trust them. I don't. I still neuter Firefox (LibreWolf, mostly.) and disable all the sync nonsense.

AFAIK Google can't decrypt your Chrome data either (if you've set an optional passphrase).

See https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/165139.

Re: Why I use Firefox

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Post by sylvestre »

charcircuit wrote: post #53
sylvestre wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Would you have more details to share? I don't experience such issues on github. Clue: do you have some unusual addons which could change the behavior of Firefox?

I've only hit it on mobile and I've hit it on a few other sites and trying with Chrome, the full page renders everytime. The only addon I have is ubo.

it would be nice if you could open a bug https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/ with a screen recording and/or step to reproduce.

(I am a big user of Github on Firefox for android and I can't reproduce) thanks

Re: Why I use Firefox

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Post by fauigerzigerk »

incontrol wrote: post #37
zahma wrote: post #19

I don't see why I would want to use anything else. Even if Chrome is marginally faster in an arbitrary benchmark test, I doubt I'd notice. And so far, I have no interoperability issues between Firefox on my laptop (macOS) and my iPhone (iOS), which runs Safari + Firefox Focus (because it's all the same webkit underneath). The add-on and plug-in marketplace is quite healthy, too. At the end of the day, I care about op…

Funny enough on my machine, Chrome is the slowest on https://browserbench.org/Speedometer2.1/ 401 - Chrome 446 - Firefox 546 - Safari

I'm getting

  457 - Chrome
  444 - Safari
  348 - Firefox
M1 Mac

Re: Why I use Firefox

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Post by jjordan »

Sometimes I wonder where Firefox might be today if, in the last 10 years, it had competent leadership singularly focused on delivering the absolute best browser in existence.

Re: Why I use Firefox

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Post by qwery »

crazygringo wrote: post #38

> xn--ime-zza.eu > šime.eu Looks like HN needs Punycode support [1] when it displays the domain name after the article title. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punycode

What does it mean for HN to "support" punycode? That `Apple Vision Pro 2 | xn--80ak6aa92e.com` will appear as `[...] | apple.com`?

Re: Why I use Firefox

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Post by myfonj »

Ayesh wrote: post #18

I'm glad to see posts like this. Some of my favorite features not mentioned in the article: - User Styles: I can customize pretty much everything about the browser UI using CSS. - Containers: Shared history, form data, bookmarks,etc. But containerized cookies. - Separate search field next to the address bar.

This.

Plus worth mentioning that Firefox has native support for real user stylesheets with own origin layer, just as specified by standards. It is userConent.css file in the "chrome" folder in the profile directory. Slightly cumbersome compared to Stylus' provided "UserCSS" injections, but I think it is super important for any user agent to keep this functionality that is by the way required for CSS2.1+ compliance, and UAAG [1]

And also, to my knowledge, Firefox is one of few browsers that lets you (still) hack its interface ("chrome") through css (userChrome.css in aforementioned folder). [2]

[1] https://www.w3.org/TR/2015/NOTE-UAAG20-Reference-20151215/#s... [2] https://twitter.com/myfonj/status/1387584962354982912

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