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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 int_19h »

MathMonkeyMan wrote: post #262
_def wrote: post #108

This seems like a good place to mention my favorite Firefox Addon for Android: https://github.com/mozilla/video-bg-play Some days ago I was wondering how it works and was kinda surprised just now that this is from mozilla itself. Reading the project Readme makes this even straight up sound like a privacy addon. I wonder why this is not natively supported.

Wow, so the music stops when I do something else because the site developer wants me to download their app, so they detect a switch and turn off the video? Diabolical. I'll have to try out that extension.

YouTube has been doing this exact thing for years. Background play is a YouTube Premium feature.

Re: I Switched to Firefox and Never Looked Back

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Post by cpeterso »

PaulHoule wrote: post #214
rileymat2 wrote: post #181

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I have never had a manager that said “don’t make it work for firefox”. What I have seen is developers do it wrong to start, then tasks to fix it get low priority due to market share based priority.

I had one who did say "don't make it work for firefox" but he was the only one. The basic mechanic is that the off brand browser has to work hard to be compatible whereas the dominant browser works hard to be incompatible. If you develop Firefox first (have some really ideological devs) you'll find Chrome related bugs eat up 1% of your time if that. If you develop Chrome first you'll find supporting other browsers is…

> There's one screen that loads up 40,000 rows (crazy you say?) worth of data that performs fine on Chrome and is laggy on Firefox

Firefox's performance engineers are eager for bug reports! You can record a performance profile [1] and file a performance bug report in Bugzilla [2]. It helps if the slow page is accessible to Firefox engineers for testing, but your performance profile is a big head start.

[1] https://profiler.firefox.com/

[2] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=Core&comp...

Re: I Switched to Firefox and Never Looked Back

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Post by cbsks »

lucumo wrote: post #398
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.

Extension settings can be synced, but the extension must explicitly call the storage.sync api https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Add-ons/Web...

Re: I Switched to Firefox and Never Looked Back

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Post by segasaturn »

ethbr1 wrote: post #308
segasaturn wrote: post #222

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Indeed, although most of the real work on the hardware side is done by TSMC on the processors, and Apple just does a good job wrapping that piece of silicon into a shiny glass and metal body. Apple's real superpower is getting people to spend money inside their ecosystem. They've essentially turned into a finance corporation pretending to be a tech company.

I'd strongly disagree. Apple designs their own processors (now), specs/sources their components (e.g. screens), and then does all the integration engineering. That's the bulk of device work. Which isn't to say that semi manufacturing isn't hard, but is to say there's a lot of effort between a chip and a device.

Sure, that design work and firmware development is probably a miniscule part of their business in comparison to the scale of their App Store and other service revenues though. And Apple does no manufacturing at all, the screens come from Samsung and the phones are assembled by Foxconn.

Re: I Switched to Firefox and Never Looked Back

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Post by int_19h »

wruza wrote: post #91

Recently I preventively migrated from Vivaldi, and Firefox lacked: Gestures, "search with" context menu, "add active tab" in a bookmarks bar folder, autorenaming downloads, custom keybindings, tab squeezing (it keeps them wide and shows scroll buttons), last tab standing, proper double-click-drag selection and text editing in general. Probably a dozen more things that I cannot remember now. Also "sync" just doesn't w…

To be fair, Vivaldi is a pretty high bar given how much stuff they have in the browser itself (and the overall "super customizable kitchen sink" philosophy they carried over from Opera days that enables this).

Re: I Switched to Firefox and Never Looked Back

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Post by int_19h »

recursive wrote: post #414
int_19h wrote: post #409

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And I'm entitled to publicly shame software engineers who implement this kind of stuff for Google.

Best of luck. I actually hope it works, but I'm not optimistic.

I'm pretty sure it won't, given that it hasn't worked so far for much worse stuff (like people implementing the panopticon at Palantir).

Re: I Switched to Firefox and Never Looked Back

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Post by krferriter »

20after4 wrote: post #226
dotancohen wrote: post #154

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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.

Linux foundation is far from a rebel group. Look at who is involved.

The mission of the Linux Foundation is not to mount a rebellion, it is to make Linux good.

Re: I Switched to Firefox and Never Looked Back

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Post by 542354234235 »

Workaccount2 wrote: post #161
ceejayoz wrote: post #146

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"I Don't Know How To Explain To You That You Should Care About Other People" https://www.huffpost.com/entry/i-dont-know-how-to-explain-to...

Where is the article titled "I don't know how to explain that ads (and the "suckers" who view them) are what keep the internet running"

Ads are what make the internet a bloated mess. Ads are why there are a thousand different results for “roasted broccoli recipe”, because they are all trying to get me to pick them so I can see ads. Its why each one is 5 pages of crap before you get to the actual recipe, so they can shove in more ads. Everything is stretched, duplicative, and needless complex, so you will move through as many ads as humanly possible.

Re: I Switched to Firefox and Never Looked Back

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Post by BobaFloutist »

gjsman-1000 wrote: post #287
immibis wrote: post #282

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Let me copy the actually important information from the sibling comment that's about to be deleted, because this is actually important: Linus has hated GPLv3 since at least 2006. Linux development has been over 80% corporate funded for over a decade. FOSS contributors do not have enough talent or interest to maintain the kernel for even a few weeks. If corporate interests weren't in the kernel, the kernel would not r…

The original comment I was replying to has an inaccurate mindset: Linux supporters generally still envision this as a community project, with community contributors, and they are so successful, that companies knock at the door politely and are lucky to get code into the kernel. It's actually the other way around: This is a collaborative corporate project, with corporate employees contributing, but there are some rand…

I mean it's still a better model than, say, Adobe Photoshop. Even if corporations are contributing to it and making use of it, it still creates a useful tool for individuals that's less susceptible to many of the downsides of corporate products.

Re: I Switched to Firefox and Never Looked Back

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Post by doctor_radium »

HunOL wrote: post #115
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…

> It’s crazy to think that some software engineers might actually intentionally degrade user experience on non-Google browsers or for people using adblockers. Pretty sure that was happening back in a days when Opera was using own engine (Presto). They shipped browser with scripts to fix some popular sites. Actually Firefox also has some fixes for particular sites about:compat

Somehow I wasn't previously familiar with about:compat, which led me down a rabbit hole to finding about:about. Great stuff!
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