Why I use Firefox

Post by gitaarik » Thu, Feb 29, 2024, 9:34 AM UTC

flkiwi wrote: post #201

I have tried, oh how I've tried. But the vertical tab options on Firefox are just not very good compared to the disappointingly elegant Edge implementation (with something either identical or very similar used by Brave). And, for me, with the sheer amount of work I do in a browser, the base interface is a huge concern. I've been a fan since the Firebird days--which I wish they'd been able to stick with because the an…

Post by myfonj » Thu, Feb 29, 2024, 11:29 AM UTC

SilasX wrote: post #225

aembleton wrote: post #168

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Which controls do you want to remove? Can't you do that through the customize toolbar? I'm removing the toolbar and the sidebar header with the following userChrome: /* to hide the native tabs */ #TabsToolbar { visibility: collapse; } /* to hide the sidebar header */ #sidebar-header { visibility: collapse; }

I didn't ask to remove controls. I referred to customizing controls to the level you could as of Firefox 2016. Or like you could do in Super Metroid (1992). For example, if I want shift-J to move to the left tab, and shift+K to move to the right. As of now, extensions can kind of customize this like before, they just don't do it in a fully general way (like you'd get from a supported settings feature). The extensions…

    ; Firefox "close tab to the left"
    ; relies on about:config browser.tabs.selectOwnerOnClose=false
    ; (that ensures ^w will always select → RIGHT
    ; #IfWinActive, ahk_class MozillaWindowClass
    ; close to left
    ; this will effectively override the dreaded ctrl+shift+w close window
    ^+q::
    ^+w::
    sendInput,^+{pgUp} ; = swap current tab with left neighbour
    sleep,5
    sendInput,^w ; = close current tab
    return
    ; close to right (default)
    ;^w::
    ;sendInput,^w ; = close current tab
    return
    ; #IfWinActive

Post by jchw » Thu, Feb 29, 2024, 1:15 PM UTC

asadotzler wrote: post #284

jchw wrote: post #214

I use Firefox. (Specifically Librewolf.) That said... > Google can. Apple claims that they can’t, but they have disclosed user data to law enforcement in the past, so I don’t trust them. Mozilla says that they can’t, and I trust them. Google does offer end-to-end encryption, with a separate "sync passphrase". I honestly suspect all of the major vendors actually do a good enough job here if you configure things right.…

Why is Google's UX crummy. Why are defaults bad? This isn't by accident. This is to bend people towards the Google-benefiting options and against their own self interest. This is called "dark patterns" and it's a bad thing, an evil thing.

Post by M95D » Thu, Feb 29, 2024, 2:26 PM UTC

deanishe wrote: post #260

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 don't see why I would want to use anything else I use FF, too, but I can see why someone wouldn't want to: It's just not a very good Mac app. Weird windowing and focus bugs in fullscreen mode. Keyboard shortcuts that randomly stop working. Zero scripting capabilities (it used to have the bare minimum, but Mozilla bizarrely ripped it out), and just poor integration in general. My system-wide shortcuts — the ones t…

Post by illiac786 » Thu, Feb 29, 2024, 3:33 PM UTC

illiac786 wrote: post #288

ajorgensen wrote: post #195

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have tried to switch quite a few times over the years to Firefox and I still to this day consistently run into websites that are unusably broken on Firefox, do you have the same experience? I realize this probably speaks volumes to the need for more people to use browsers other than Chrome but its unfortunately frequent enough that I always end up switching back to Chrome after a few months.

* Recording in web client of Duolingo does not work on Firefox, only in chrome. * Webserial for flashing esp for example is not supported * Webauth took forever to be supported (still not sure it's fully supported) But I still use of because of the cookie Mgmt mainly, and secondly because we need at least one alternative browser engine on desktop... Safari WebKit is a fork (or the original if you prefer), it's not re…