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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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pxoe wrote: post #229
Vinnl wrote: post #73

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And for those who do actually feel they want to separate their extensions and passwords and such as well, there's a Profiles revamp coming up that's looking really good in Nightly: https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/discussions/here-s-what-we-re... But yes, people should learn about Multi-Account Containers if they haven't, yet. It's a killer feature that no other browser has. This is the extension to enable the UI for i…

Finally, it only took them 10 years to get around to updating that decades old UI. Wonder which other decade old UI parts are they gonna tackle next? ooh, will they finally do something about Library and the whole bookmarks/history menu/sidebar/window mess? It's a little insane how so much time has passed and so many versions were released, and some interface stuff still remains unpolished and disparate. Firefox simp…

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Re: I Switched to Firefox and Never Looked Back

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Post by pxoe »

vianneychevalie wrote: post #291
pxoe wrote: post #229

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Finally, it only took them 10 years to get around to updating that decades old UI. Wonder which other decade old UI parts are they gonna tackle next? ooh, will they finally do something about Library and the whole bookmarks/history menu/sidebar/window mess? It's a little insane how so much time has passed and so many versions were released, and some interface stuff still remains unpolished and disparate. Firefox simp…

As a consultant, switching between my many clients, testing, and home accounts is simply Alt+F+B+Arrow down ("Open new container tab"), all within the same UI, in the same window, with colored tabs, with the same extensions, and same password manager. I've been in situations needing up to half a dozen different Microsoft accounts (multiple Teams clients in Firefox, for instance), other browsers haven't solved this da…

"Shared everything", is exactly what's undesirable about container tabs and what makes them a non-starter. I'd like to keep work actually separate. I don't need work tabs, or work history, or work downloads polluting the "main" profile. I don't need work extensions to be active outside of work. (there's just no way to make some extensions to work with just specific containers, so that's a dud.) All of that stuff can be in it's own space, and it would also make switching a bit easier - open profile, resume tabs, close profile, things stay put and ready to pick up where you left off, without needing to juggle tabs within the same profile and having them be an eyesore, be it work stuff on a regular profile or vice versa.

Re: I Switched to Firefox and Never Looked Back

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Post by spartanatreyu »

elephanlemon wrote: post #83
ethbr1 wrote: post #49

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What doesn't work with YouTube on Firefox? Asked as on mobile I run as few apps as possible, so use the web version. Haven't seen any issues.

I ended up switching back from Firefox to Chrome after a few weeks because I found that if I had more than about 6 YouTube tabs opened, the YouTube interface would become very laggy. I blamed it on Firefox at the time but maybe it was something intentional by Google.

This was fixed in the latest update: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/134.0.1/releasenotes/

Update your firefox now and the issue is gone.

It was basically the whole reason for the update.

Google changed their code to create a bunch of objects over time, and those objects didn't get cleaned up. It was just a standard memory leak issue.

Except it heavily impacted users who kept a youtube tab open or pinned.

The bug was reported and a fix released in a little under 2 weeks.

Re: I Switched to Firefox and Never Looked Back

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Post by spartanatreyu »

Sanctor wrote: post #185
hiq wrote: post #147

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> I refuse to re-visit every bookmark when I login from a new PC, which is often. Why not? How often? This should take literally 5s using the bookmark manager, right click on "Bookmarks Toolbar", "Open All Bookmarks". Then some more to load the websites I guess.

Some links can only be accessed through a VPN. I have thousands of bookmarks that also have names but I would still like to see the icons before clicking the link. Sometimes the name doesn't hint at what kind of resource the bookmark was at a glance. Is it a youtube video, is it an article? I already have access to that information at the time of bookmarking. I don't want to lose it and then have to get it again.

> Some links can only be accessed through a VPN.

Step 1. Connect to VPN Step 2. Open all bookmarks

Re: I Switched to Firefox and Never Looked Back

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Post by dartos »

prmoustache wrote: post #183
dartos wrote: post #97

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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.

Sure, today. Right now.

That’s what I’m saying. Search engines are still a part young technology in the grand scheme of things.

No reason to believe this is the end state.

Re: I Switched to Firefox and Never Looked Back

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Post by michaelcampbell »

I use both, but I wish FF had an easier to way setup "custom" searches, like:

bg3 foo => searches on the baldurs gate 3 wiki

r tragedeigh => goes to the reddit.com/r/tragedeigh subreddit ...

It can be done, but it's far too difficult. Containers are the absolute bomb though.

Re: I Switched to Firefox and Never Looked Back

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Post by observationist »

jshen wrote: post #506
asadotzler wrote: post #477

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The OP explicitly called out logins. Are you being intentionally misleading or just dense or what?

The issue is about preventing users from watching if they block ads. Talking about logins is being intentionally misleading.

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Re: I Switched to Firefox and Never Looked Back

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Post by internet_points »

vianneychevalie wrote: post #291
pxoe wrote: post #229

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Finally, it only took them 10 years to get around to updating that decades old UI. Wonder which other decade old UI parts are they gonna tackle next? ooh, will they finally do something about Library and the whole bookmarks/history menu/sidebar/window mess? It's a little insane how so much time has passed and so many versions were released, and some interface stuff still remains unpolished and disparate. Firefox simp…

As a consultant, switching between my many clients, testing, and home accounts is simply Alt+F+B+Arrow down ("Open new container tab"), all within the same UI, in the same window, with colored tabs, with the same extensions, and same password manager. I've been in situations needing up to half a dozen different Microsoft accounts (multiple Teams clients in Firefox, for instance), other browsers haven't solved this da…

there's also ctrl+.1 etc (ctrl period and then a number, first container is 1)

Re: I Switched to Firefox and Never Looked Back

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Post by internet_points »

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.

yeah, mozilla do need to do some work on the "narrow screen experience" on desktop. Too many builtin things that take up space around the url bar and can't be moved.
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