I Switched to Firefox and Never Looked Back • Hacker News Board

Re: I Switched to Firefox and Never Looked Back

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Post by Waterluvian » Tue, Jan 14, 2025, 2:24 PM UTC

My only problem with Firefox is that getImageData does not return the actual encoded pixel values, but the values rendered to the screen after any sort of OS color profiles.

This makes it impossible to offer remote sensing processing tools that care about radiometric values to Firefox users. I specifically have to tell them to use a different browser if they want to use that toolset.

Mind you I haven’t checked this issue in almost a year so maybe they finally offer a way to make it behave like every other browser.

Re: I Switched to Firefox and Never Looked Back

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Post by pluc » Tue, Jan 14, 2025, 2:24 PM UTC

The best reason to use Firefox is to not empower Google's domination of yet another segment of the web. Everything else is chrome-based.

Re: I Switched to Firefox and Never Looked Back

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Post by ziddoap » Tue, Jan 14, 2025, 2:24 PM UTC

ekianjo wrote: post #105

internet_points wrote: post #3

It's the closest we have to a browser not controlled by the corporate giants. Sometimes Mozilla makes unpopular choices and people raise a stink about it, but we do that because we hold them to a higher standard. With Microsoft and Google, we just expect them to Do More Evil, with Mozilla we expect Good and will complain loudly when they fail to uphold our principles, and we recommend Firefox because we feel like it…

> Sometimes Mozilla makes unpopular choices Sometimes? They tend to hit the mark of bad decisions more often than not

People just remember the shitty decisions more vividly and for longer than people remember the dozens of good decisions made in between.

Most good decisions don't get a full press cycle (because they are boring).

Re: I Switched to Firefox and Never Looked Back

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Post by dotancohen » Tue, Jan 14, 2025, 2:24 PM UTC

squarefoot wrote: post #104

ustad wrote: post #23

Currently the main attack facing Firefox is coming from advertising companies such as YouTube. It’s crazy to think that some software engineers might actually intentionally degrade user experience on non-Google browsers or for people using adblockers. The mentality here is pretty disturbing: it’s almost like punishing users for making the choice to browse the web without ads, or without the surveillance mechanisms th…

> Currently the main attack facing Firefox is coming from advertising companies such as YouTube. I would add to the list the Linux Foundation too. https://www.linuxfoundation.org/press/linux-foundation-annou...

This is so backwards it seems like a joke. Honestly it reads like a rebel group announcing peace with the dictator and joining the oppression.

Re: I Switched to Firefox and Never Looked Back

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Post by hexagonwin » Tue, Jan 14, 2025, 2:24 PM UTC

nomilk wrote: post #31

Dumb question, but I couldn't live without some chrome extensions. Are they easy to port over to Firefox?

It's generally pretty easy since FF uses the same WebExtension API.

Re: I Switched to Firefox and Never Looked Back

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Post by Daunk » Tue, Jan 14, 2025, 2:24 PM UTC

Jnr wrote: post #82

Daunk wrote: post #27

My very old, and bad, laptop takes an extremely long time to start Firefox. However, forks like Floorp are a lot quicker to start. And since I'm pretty strict about using the same tools everywhere (no matter the OS) I'm now using Floorp on my main PC as well. But I'm not sure Floorp can be trusted... does anyone have anything to say about it?

Is it not the case of using Ubuntu with Snap? I have experienced similar things with Chrome and Firefox on Ubuntu starting extremely slowly when using the snap version. And Ubuntu does not offer deb packages for those anymore, you have to manually add the Mozilla repo to use that.

I've not used Ubuntu in many years. Laptop is running openSUSE Tumbleweed. Snaps and even Flatpak are a no-go on this laptop hehe.

Re: I Switched to Firefox and Never Looked Back

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Post by beka-tom » Tue, Jan 14, 2025, 2:24 PM UTC

Still, I need smooth page rendering and scrolling, similar to how Safari does on a Mac.

Re: I Switched to Firefox and Never Looked Back

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Post by greenie_beans » Tue, Jan 14, 2025, 2:25 PM UTC

i've noticed that google search can be slow af in firefox ever since they released the ai answer feature

Re: I Switched to Firefox and Never Looked Back

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Post by dismalaf » Tue, Jan 14, 2025, 2:25 PM UTC

asdfasdf1 wrote: post #76

ustad wrote: post #23

Currently the main attack facing Firefox is coming from advertising companies such as YouTube. It’s crazy to think that some software engineers might actually intentionally degrade user experience on non-Google browsers or for people using adblockers. The mentality here is pretty disturbing: it’s almost like punishing users for making the choice to browse the web without ads, or without the surveillance mechanisms th…

about youtube being totally unusable on firefox: is it just youtube/google being evil as is customary or also firefox having loads of memory leaks, as its usual too? (plenty of mem leak bugs with video/audio reported over the years, many very recent and still open)

YouTube works perfectly on Firefox if you pay for YouTube Premium. Haven't noticed any bugs, if it leaks memory or something it's not noticeable on my machine.

Re: I Switched to Firefox and Never Looked Back

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Post by jokoon » Tue, Jan 14, 2025, 2:25 PM UTC

Also Mozilla is not completely white, they offer many services that could be seen like they siphon data.

Although to be fair, as long as it's done properly, it's fine, but I don't know if Mozilla communicates on those products.

I remember one security employee mentioning that monitoring chrome with wire shark showed an insane amount of unnecessary traffic that went to google and others.