> 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
yeah accents on website is not great
Why I use Firefox
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Re: Why I use Firefox
#182Why I use Vivaldi: workspaces and vertical tabs let me pretend I don't have a tab hoarding problem.
I know I could probably have this on Firefox with some extension, but I don't like the concept of extensions.
Re: Why I use Firefox
#183I never used Chrome, so i don't know if it has a picture-in-picture player. But if it doesn't, you are really living in the past. It's so incredibly convenient. p.s.: I googled, there is an extension that does the same for Chrome, but not natively.
Dunno that I’d find much use in that. Either you’re watching the video (in which case you don’t want other crap distracting you) or you’re not (in which case you don’t want the video in a corner distracting you).
Maybe I’m just from an older “I can only do one thing at a time lol” generation.
Re: Why I use Firefox
#184For 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.
Safari suffered from years of under investment. I understand that the situation has recently changed.
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#185On desktop, FF supports the best vertical nested tab tree I have seen. What I’ve seen on chrome is laughably amateurish with huge chunks of wasted space due to unmodifiable(?) padding elements
https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/ideas/native-vertical-tabs/id...
1200 thumbs up since 2022 and 22 pages of comments. I wonder when we'll get native vertical tabs.
Re: Why I use Firefox
#186Earlier quoted context omitted.
Extension name?
Tree style tabs is more stable and performant but also has a few nice addons (TST Colored Tabs being one of my favs). Sideberry can be infinitely customized but I found it to be extremely slow with 100+ tabs across multiple windows.
5233 Sidebery tabs here, in a single window/profile. Multiple Sidebery "panels". I am simultaneously running a few other Firefox instances with their own Sidebery extensions and at least hundreds of tabs each.
I will not defend this use model to any skeptics, but FWIW I have no performance issues!
Sidebery lets you set colors on tabs explicitly, or by pattern. I use this sparingly but it's very useful when I do.
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#187Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Plus it lives on today as KaiOS, you can buy plenty of phones that run it.
It didn’t end up challenging the Apple/Google duopoly like Mozilla wanted but I think they should have stuck with it anyways.
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#188How can we as users provide funding for open software like Firefox, in the same way that Wikipedia receives crowdfunding? At the very least as a supplement to the money they receive from Google. And even better, to fund more research projects, like their sponsorship of research into Rust and WebAssembly.
The salary for the CEO of Mozilla is 6.9 million USD (almost 7 million). They fired developers to save money, and put all the money saved into the CEO's salary. I don't see Mozilla getting better anytime soon. https://www.reddit.com/r/browsers/comments/18b6tdp/mozilla_c...
Most recent layoffs (i.e. what I can easily search for) was 250 heads, just for easy numbers if we say they were all (or on average) earning $100k, then if they got rid of the CEO position entirely.. Mozilla could've kept 69 of them and only laid off 181 (plus CEO).
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#189Earlier quoted context omitted.
In general, wouldn’t Chrome be much closer to being Internet Explorer?
both Chrome is doing the "I make my own web standards and push them through, ups now my feature is standard incompatible so I try to force change the upcoming standard just before it gets committed" thing IE had done in the past (it's e.g. the main reason why you sometimes end up with CORS issues on FF, the site isn't standard compatible as it doesn't handle a certain thing the standard requires from websites but due…
To be fair, IE and Netscape existed before there was an active standards body. 25 years ago standards were developed in a waterfall like process that took years.
The only time new features were released was when IE or Netscape pushed them.
Re: Why I use Firefox
#190I use Firefox across all my devices, they are seamlessly synced. To be honest, the sole reason I use FF is because I don't want to be part of Googles monopoly, and because FF just works.
My killer feature is sharing tabs from my phone to desktop. With Chrome I think it's possible only when logged in to their spy centre, with Safari+Linux it is impossible. I hate that no one has yet made a third party tab sharing system. I don't think it would be rocket science to have an app you can "share" URLs with which sends it elsewhere. I remember years ago while shopping for browsers that Firefox was the only…
> Brave last I tried didn't support it.
Not sure what you mean, but you can click the URL, then click on Share, then select "Send to devices". In a way, it works better than Firefox, because the list of active devices is more up to date. On the other hand, it can have latency, but I noticed latency in Firefox's sharing too.
Also, you can go to the Menu, then click on "Recent Tabs", which will show you the tabs on other devices.