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Re: Why I use Firefox

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Post by J253 »

javajosh wrote: post #50
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…

I agree. I would also suggest occasionally checking out the other browsers like Opera and Vivaldi because they often have a surprising feel and feature set. Vivaldi in particular has a very nice RSS/Atom feed reader built into it, and Opera tends to be very fast. (Mozilla and Goog were smart to start offering account-based sync because this creates a moat for regular adoption. But anyone can and should go window-shop…

Agreed. I find Vivaldi’s split pane ability incredibly useful. Surprised other browsers haven’t implemented this kind of this yet.

Re: Why I use Firefox

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Post by lenerdenator »

Mozilla is one of the last names in the web business that I still have a modicum of trust in. Chrome is essentially spyware at this point. Google built up a fandom among the technorati by contributing to open source during the 00s and 10s, and by arguing that this meant they wouldn't be like 90s/00s Microsoft with coercion of standards and monopolistic practices. Well, they became that kind of company anyways, and too many people still buy into the old "don't be evil" line.

Re: Why I use Firefox

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Post by robin_reala »

dartos wrote: post #103
javajosh wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I agree. I would also suggest occasionally checking out the other browsers like Opera and Vivaldi because they often have a surprising feel and feature set. Vivaldi in particular has a very nice RSS/Atom feed reader built into it, and Opera tends to be very fast. (Mozilla and Goog were smart to start offering account-based sync because this creates a moat for regular adoption. But anyone can and should go window-shop…

I wouldn’t touch opera with a 1000ft pole. Any non OSS browser makes me feel weird. The amount of trust you place in a browser is insane.

That, and the predatory short-term loans part of their business. https://www.spacebar.news/stop-using-opera-browser/

Re: Why I use Firefox

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Post by tezza »

Pure frivolous anecdote about FF

Whenever I’ve been lucky enough to get Glastonbury tickets it has been on Firefox

When applying I run Chrome as well to cover that base. But for me the Firefox windows are the ones that make it through. YMMV

Re: Why I use Firefox

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Post by mariusor »

walrus01 wrote: post #95
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

Or maybe it's good that HN doesn't support punycode so that you can know immediately that you're visiting an IDN domain name, and people don't try to sneak in submissions with IDF homograph similarities to troll or pretend to be a site that they're not.

I doubt that a malicious punycode host name would pass muster more than a minute under the scrutiny of the HN crowd.

Re: Why I use Firefox

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Post by lenerdenator »

walrus01 wrote: post #94
jjordan wrote: post #78

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.

I can't even recall the names and purpose any of their other side projects other than some janky mobile phone OS and hardware attempt. But clearly they've put a lot of staffing resources and money into some of them.

Firefox OS was actually a not terrible idea. Instead of having applications written in a platform-specific stack, do it with web technologies and make the apps PWAs.

Seeing how many people are now criticizing Apple for hobbling PWAs with Safari on iOS, I'd say they were just ahead of their time.

Re: Why I use Firefox

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Post by stronglikedan »

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…

In my opinion, Chrome is more polished (no pun intended). Just the little things that allow me to work faster, whether the browser itself is faster or not. I try FF about every 3 months or so, but keep coming back to Chrome.

Re: Why I use Firefox

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Post by mariusor »

thworp wrote: post #107

One of my main reasons for using firefox is Tridactyl [0]. It's the most comprehensive vi-mode addon for a mainstream browser. Support bookmarks, search engines, pagination, external text editing and colorschemes on top of the usual features something like vimium has. It is under active development [1] and written in TypeScript (which is also a plus for hackability in my book). [0] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/fi…

I am still bitter over Mozilla's migration off XUL based extensions. Pentadactyl one I'm still missing ten years later. :(

Re: Why I use Firefox

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Post by robertoandred »

jhoechtl wrote: post #2

For me it's > Mozilla develops their own browser engine This is key. Without Mozilla we are aproaching monopoly as Safari aproaches gradually Internet Explorer.

A ludicrous and non-serious statement. Safari leads in several areas, and both it and Firefox push back against Google’s self-serving and privacy-threatening “features” it wants people to think are web standards.

Re: Why I use Firefox

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Post by janmarsal »

Firefox is the only browser I know of that lets me hide the close X button from all tabs. Even on firefox it's a pain because you need to fiddle with the useChrome.css. Well, better than other browsers that won't even let you do that.
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