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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 iggldiggl »

klez wrote: post #53

On my work laptop I use Chrome. There are a couple of things I sorely miss from Firefox * The omnibar: I have a couple IPs I connect to frequently. One ends in 36, the other in 243. In Firefox I can just type 36 (or 243) + Tab + Enter. In Chrome I have to type the whole address. And why can't I search for the title of a page I know is in my history or even just a tab I already have opened directly from the search bar…

> And why can't I search for the title of a page I know is in my history

I sometimes use Edge as a fallback browser, and it suffers from this problem, too, and yeah, it is sooo annoying – much as I'm unhappy about various Firefox changes in the last years, I wouldn't switch to a different browser for that alone.

Interestingly, Edge (and probably Chrome, too, unless it's a strange Microsoft customisation) simultaneously suffers from the problem that on the rare occasion where an addressbar search actually delivers a locally history result, the autocomplete is often too precise, because it prefills the whole URL, not just the domain.

Re: I Switched to Firefox and Never Looked Back

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Post by immibis »

segasaturn wrote: post #364
nh2 wrote: post #332

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> ask why so much engineering time and money is being wasted on [Linux] Most likely the corporations will say "because that is much cheaper than developing our own; 10 of our devs on Linux an 99% of devs from other corporations are much cheaper than 1000 of our devs on our own OS". And the shareholders will likely accept that. The key thing is that for most corporations that contribute to Linux, Linux is not the prod…

> You can fork but you likely cannot maintain Linux as-is. Where do the 1M hours/year come from? That's hard to do in free time. Maybe a question too radical for Hacker News, but why does Linux need 1M hours/year? How much "worse" would Linux be for the end user if this year, that time spent dropped to 100k or even 10k? And which "type" of Linux user was benefiting most from that time spent (person or corporation)? W…

I believe most of this is hardware support, followed by refactoring. The core kernel functionality certainly doesn't change to the tune of 1M hours/year.

Re: I Switched to Firefox and Never Looked Back

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Post by immibis »

darknavi wrote: post #324
immibis wrote: post #300

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Even market-dominant companies do this. Windows ships a bunch of backward compatibility patches. Graphics card drivers (especially Nvidia) wholesale replace shaders in popular games.

Webkit does this. Examples: - https://github.com/WebKit/WebKit/blob/main/Source/WebCore/pa... - https://github.com/WebKit/WebKit/blob/main/Source/WebCore/pl...

> DuckDuckGo discriminates against WebKitGTK's standard user agent by returning an HTTP 400 Bad Request error when loading every search result.

I guess they only want spyware browsers on DDG.

Re: I Switched to Firefox and Never Looked Back

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Post by prmoustache »

Corrado wrote: post #490
prmoustache wrote: post #198

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It is really useful to log on different aws account at the same time too.

If you haven't checked out the "AWS SSO Containers" extension they you are missing out! I recently found this beauty and it's literally changed the way I work. I couldn't be happier. [0] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/aws-sso-conta...

Yes I know about it but I try to limit the extensions I use to:

- the ones that are built by Mozilla

- the ones that are endorsed by Mozilla

- the ones I take time to read the code (and usually disable auto-updates)

I haven't had time to do the later for aws-sso-containers. Thanksfully I don't have that many account to work on at the same time these days so I didn't push it high in the priority list.

Re: I Switched to Firefox and Never Looked Back

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Post by 1718627440 »

ericrallen wrote: post #34
alexvitkov wrote: post #18

I'm glad the writer is enjoying Firefox, but posts like these make me realize we've forgotten how to use computers. Built-in screenshot tool? "You don't need to install extensions"! Really? Dude just press Print Screen, it even works outside a browser, if one day you have to be put through the unspeakable torture of using a native application! Single-use burner emails are also nice and all, but why exactly does this…

Firefox’s screenshot tool is a little more advanced than Print Screen. [0] There are situations where it’s really useful to be able to capture the entire web page and not just the visible viewport. [0]: https://blog.mozilla.org/en/products/firefox/how-to-capture-...

It seams to have a maximum length. If you try it on this page, it won't capture the whole page.

Re: I Switched to Firefox and Never Looked Back

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Post by carlosjobim »

asadotzler wrote: post #479
carlosjobim wrote: post #296

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A restaurant is also a public space. But you can't eat for free or behave as you wish there.

If the restaurant puts food on the public sidewalk I'm free to pick it up. The internet is not inside of someone's business, they are inside of it. It is a public space and if they publish without a paywall, I'm free to consume that how ever I like. Your analogy is ridiculous and makes you come across as a simp for Big Advertising.

Sigh. Why can't you write three sentences without resorting to insults? Usually people behave like that when they know they are wrong.

Re: I Switched to Firefox and Never Looked Back

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Post by fsflover »

cornstalks wrote: post #326
WorldMaker wrote: post #235

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"Should have detected the issue" implies it was an accident. YouTube has intentionally tanked performance in non-Chrome browsers before and been caught. Even when they weren't actively sabotaging other browsers they had big Chrome banners and "Works Better in Chrome" signs for several years in the past. If they did it _then_, it's hard to give them the benefit of the doubt that they just "missed it" now, and easier t…

> YouTube has intentionally tanked performance in non-Chrome browsers before and been caught. Can you please share sources regarding this? I'm not familiar with any instance like this.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40736397

Re: I Switched to Firefox and Never Looked Back

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Post by josephd79 »

Sanctor wrote: post #210
josephd79 wrote: post #197

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You don't name your bookmarks?

I delete the name on purpose so I can utilize the horizontal space the bookmarks bar provides more effectively. I name the bookmarks that are not directly on the bar but live in other folders. However I would still not want to lose that bit of metadata. Icons hint at what site the resource is from at a glance.

Makes sense, I don't use the bookmarks bar because I try and keep the UI to a minimum.

Re: I Switched to Firefox and Never Looked Back

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Post by laylower »

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…

Empirical, but I have noscript and ublock enabled on Mozilla and whenever I go to youtube, it reloads three times in a laggy manner before it will let me type into the search. I check to see that I am not logged into gmail before using youtube.

I am happy to do all that, because I like my videos uninterrupted and my web experience lean.

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