vertical tabs + fully working adblock + containers, that's all i need in 2025
Are vertical tabs now in the main release of Firefox? I've been on Nightly for the vertical tabs and I love it. Fully agree - container tabs are awesome too.
I Switched to Firefox and Never Looked Back
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Re: I Switched to Firefox and Never Looked Back
#432Problem for Android users like me is Chrome is the default on mobile, so all passwords bookmarks etc are there. Of course we can install Firefox but I find Chrome better on mobile. Just couldn't get used to FF on Android. Moving to laptop it then makes sense to continue using it instead of installing Firefox over and above Edge anyway there plus Chrome. So it gets crowded out.
Agreed Chrome is good on mobile. But I can't stand browsing without uBlockOrigin or dark reader. Plus URL bar on the bottom in Firefox is brilliant.
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I go through my feed or history and bg-open the links I want to watch. Then I watch them. What a strange confusion, as if all people must have the same "workflow". Sorry, no intent to sound negative, but why not give it some thought at least. It's "6 tabs", not "6 videos playing at the same time".
As someone who hates the auto-recommendation system on YouTube and turns it off, I also appreciate this is sometimes the safest/easiest way to watch only the videos I actually intend to watch. This seems intentionally YouTube's UX design fault, they too heavily try to push you to "auto-play". YouTube has a "Watchlist" feature where you can build a playlist. When it works it is exactly what I want, but it feels like e…
I guess it’s not the same as Watch Later. I think I remember “add to queue” button right on videos, that was it probably.
I’m still using Watch Later, but for long videos I have no time for.
Re: I Switched to Firefox and Never Looked Back
#434Recently 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).
Yeah I’m really happy I managed to migrate at all, ignoring these non-fatal losses. It was not the first time I tried.
Sadly Vivaldi also slowly breaks things, although I guess I’ll remember my words at the next Firefox “refresh”.
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#435This 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.
Amazing, thanks for sharing!
Re: I Switched to Firefox and Never Looked Back
#436I have been a happy Firefox user for about 20 years now and never felt the need to switch. It's my standard browser on every device I have.
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#437Earlier quoted context omitted.
Let me remind you that Ad-Block Plus collapsed when it's users revolted over their plan to whitelist simple vetted advertisements in a truce with advertisers. ABP was foolish and actually believed it's users were trying to make a statement about invasive ads. Really their users just didn't want to see any ads at all, ever, regardless of the circumstances.
ABP didn't even address any trackings with their program. It's just pure cosmetics. > Really their users just didn't want to see any ads at all Because the internet was filled with malicious ads before any content blockers having more people? The hazardours time of Windows XP/7 with malwares-affected from the ads appear like meals in every day's news? Sorry, internet ads are doomed from those times. They are migraine…
And most people don't have issue with static ads like those in newspapers and magazines. People would be fine if business wants to advertise something, but the tech ads industry does not only want to promote things to you, they want to capture your attention as well, regardless of if you want the thing or not. They think they can only do so by knowing you as well as your mother does.
If a business have something to sell, just let people know. No need to help create a surveillance state.
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To continue GP's comment, > With Microsoft and Google, we just expect them to Do More Evil, with Mozilla we expect Good And with Safari, a loathsome browser that's intent on recreating the IE6 conditions of yore, we give it a free pass.
> ...the IE6 conditions of yore... I'm sorry, but comparing modern Safari to the worst software ever widely used is just not remotely reasonable.
IMO Netscap on Linux was worse. Maybe it was already Firefox by that point? I don't remember. But I do remember the crashes. It crashed so cleanly too. One second you had a browser and the next you didn't.
I don't know if I am rewriting history but when Chrome came out it felt like Google went "hold my beer" and in 6 months developed the first decent browser.
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Change is sometimes slow. Let’s see how Google does as a century old company. In the grand scheme of things, they’re still a fairly young giant.
The thing is I see it everywhere around me. People don't care looking for a better search engine. Worse I am pretty sure that most people do not know they can choose their search engine and can define whatever is used when searching in the url bar.
From what I see, people don't even care to search anymore. They mostly go direct to an app.
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#440Earlier quoted context omitted.
As someone who hates the auto-recommendation system on YouTube and turns it off, I also appreciate this is sometimes the safest/easiest way to watch only the videos I actually intend to watch. This seems intentionally YouTube's UX design fault, they too heavily try to push you to "auto-play". YouTube has a "Watchlist" feature where you can build a playlist. When it works it is exactly what I want, but it feels like e…
I guess it’s not the same as Watch Later. I think I remember “add to queue” button right on videos, that was it probably. I’m still using Watch Later, but for long videos I have no time for.
Yeah, it was named "Queue" for a while at one point. I think "Watchlist" is the most consistent name it has had, and yeah that does add (intentional?) confusion with Watch Later.