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I Switched to Firefox and Never Looked Back

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Re: I Switched to Firefox and Never Looked Back

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Post by nosioptar »

shayneo wrote: post #121
Trasmatta wrote: post #5

How are the Firefox dev tools these days? Every time I've tried in the past I end up missing the Chrome dev tools, and it's too much of a pain to have one browser for development and one for browsing. I would love to switch, though.

I actually have the exact opposite experience when I try out Chromium based browsers. I end up missing FF dev tools. I love the ability to edit and resend network requests. I'm sure I could figure out how do to so in Chrome devtools, but just not as intuitive (at least to me!)

I'm the same. I can't stand Chrome's dev tools.

Re: I Switched to Firefox and Never Looked Back

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Post by lern_too_spel »

scarface_74 wrote: post #118
julienwaj wrote: post #100

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Can you please elaborate on that?

Neither Firefox nor Chrome optimize for battery efficiency like Safari does on Macs or Edge does for Windows. I’m not trying to be the “just Google it” guy without citations. But I couldn’t find a definitive citation - just general discussions and some YouTube videos including earlier discussions on HN. I searched for “firefox vs safari battery mac” and the same for Edge on Windows.

Chrome doesn't optimize for battery efficiency like Safari on Macs. It optimizes better than Safari.

https://birchtree.me/blog/everyone-says-chrome-devastates-ma...

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Post by officeplant »

ethbr1 wrote: post #196
ustad wrote: post #67

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A lot of the reported issues with YouTube on Firefox (especially when paired with adblockers) involve things like increased page load times, UI elements not functioning as smoothly, or even video playback glitches. Some of this is due to JavaScript that’s intentionally designed to slow things down if you’re blocking ads or using a non-Google browser, as we’ve been discussing.

I haven't seen any bugs on Firefox mobile + uBlock Origin + Android + Pixel 4a 5g (I hate upgrading phones, sue me). The only glitch I reliably get is watching videos at 1.5x sometimes freezes video (but audio still plays). Expect that's more hardware and memory pressure related tho. Also, I wasn't aware YouTube mobile has ads? I think uBlock might be eating them. Although possibly whatever is lagging others experien…

>Also, I wasn't aware YouTube mobile has ads? I think uBlock might be eating them.

That would be the point of an ad-block add-on wouldn't it?

Re: I Switched to Firefox and Never Looked Back

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Post by godshatter »

dismalaf wrote: post #149
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…

Using an ad blocker ( and not paying for a subscription in the case of YouTube) isn't the "user making their own choices", it's stealing content. If a creator puts up ads or a paywall, it's because they want to be compensated. You should either respect their wish or simply not view their content.

Accessing a web page using standard protocols with no authentication and filtering what I want to see of it on my computer is not stealing content.

YT might want me to do something else, but I am not bound by their wishes.

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Post by officeplant »

prmoustache wrote: post #195
conradfr wrote: post #134

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not totally related but on Firefox mobile you can't have a Youtube video playing while switching to another app anymore.

Aren't every firefox user using newpipe or other yt frontends on mobile? I mean if you care enough to not use the default mobile browser, surely you found out about newpipe and the myriad of other youtube frontends.

My main issue is NewPipe struggles with being attached to an account. Its a great app for me to open a video link in / use to download it.

While using firefox mobile + ublock its easier to be logged into a youtube account and dig through favorites, etc.

Re: I Switched to Firefox and Never Looked Back

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Post by lucumo »

Sanctor wrote: post #110

I really want to switch to Firefox but cannot because it doesn't sync bookmark favicons. My bookmarks bar is filled with bookmarks without names that I can recognize by the icons. I refuse to re-visit every bookmark when I login from a new PC, which is often. This has been requested for 17 years: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=428378 Every other browser sync solution has this feature. Firefox insists on…

Firefox's sync is broken in many ways. It doesn't sync search engines or extension settings either. It also frequently stops syncing from Android.

I rely on sync a lot, so that was a dealbreaker for me.

Re: I Switched to Firefox and Never Looked Back

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Post by SirFatty »

I switched to Mozilla and never looked back. I switched to Opera and never looked back. I switched to Firefox and never looked back. I switched to Chrome and never looked back. I switched to Firefox and never looked back. I switched to Brave and never looked back. I switched to Tor and never looked back.

Re: I Switched to Firefox and Never Looked Back

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Post by throwawaygmbno »

jshen wrote: post #355
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…

Don't like YouTube's ads, great don't use it. You aren't entitled to get it for free though.

Or we could just let you and other people like you subsidize it.

I've used Pocket Cast for a little over a year and a half. Just manually skipping through ads when I have my phone handy and they come on, the app reports I've apparently saved 14 hours of wasted time.

I've been blocking ads in Firefox for nearly 20 years and have been helping friends and family do it for nearly as long. I'm not going back because I should feel bad for some company with billions of dollars in profits that doesn't care about me or any of my privacy. I go the extra step further and use the banned from Chrome store extension, Ad Nauseum, to click on nearly every single blocked ad.

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