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How to Firefox
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Re: How to Firefox
#22I really struggled going back to Firefox after being a Chrome user for so long, it just feels so incredibly slow in comparison - I know it's probably just perception but I couldn't shake that feeling. I ended up going with Brave. Once you turn off their crummy VPN and crypto advert it's effectively just google chrome with a built in ad blocker. I know there were arguments/concerns about the crypto thing, but I did a…
Give us an example where Chrome is faster than Firefox, so we can see if it is more important than having uBlock Origin.
I use both Firefox and Chrome for work and haven't noticed any speed differences (without measuring).
Re: How to Firefox
#23Earlier quoted context omitted.
While orion is good option, it is not there yet in terms of comparison with Firefox on Android. Many of the extensions will install but will not actually work. Even uBlock origin will have problems. Also it is common that an update will make the browser crash very often (happened with few updates). Also they don't provide a list of APIs they support and it is not open source (although they said they will but at this…
But you agree the quote I responded to was incorrect, right?
You agree that your statement that it runs firefox extensions is misleading, right?
If I said “linux runs windows software and games” without further remarks, people would be correct to call me out on it.
Re: How to Firefox
#24Just use Brave Browser. https://brave.com/
It's like de-Googled Chrome, as it's based on the same Open Source Chromium browser, has all of the ad-blocking and anti-fingerprint tools built in, and all of the Google taken out.
You can also run popular browser extensions published for Chrome, but you don't need to worry about ad blocking, as Brave has you covered by default.
It also blocks YouTube ads effectively, by default. There's nothing you have to do to make this work.
Re: How to Firefox
#25I really struggled going back to Firefox after being a Chrome user for so long, it just feels so incredibly slow in comparison - I know it's probably just perception but I couldn't shake that feeling. I ended up going with Brave. Once you turn off their crummy VPN and crypto advert it's effectively just google chrome with a built in ad blocker. I know there were arguments/concerns about the crypto thing, but I did a…
Give us an example where Chrome is faster than Firefox, so we can see if it is more important than having uBlock Origin. I use both Firefox and Chrome for work and haven't noticed any speed differences (without measuring).
As I said I think it's more of a perception thing than an actual slowness.
I don't think Firefox is actually any slower in a practical test of loading a site for example, I just perceived it as being slower, perhaps more likely its something like the transitions between tabs and other actions being different enough to feel slower.
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Re: How to Firefox
#27Earlier quoted context omitted.
While orion is good option, it is not there yet in terms of comparison with Firefox on Android. Many of the extensions will install but will not actually work. Even uBlock origin will have problems. Also it is common that an update will make the browser crash very often (happened with few updates). Also they don't provide a list of APIs they support and it is not open source (although they said they will but at this…
But you agree the quote I responded to was incorrect, right?
Not op, but you cannot fault the author for not knowing every app or trend. With any luck, your reply will inform the original author, who may learn a thing or two from the discussion we are having here!
Re: How to Firefox
#28I really struggled going back to Firefox after being a Chrome user for so long, it just feels so incredibly slow in comparison - I know it's probably just perception but I couldn't shake that feeling. I ended up going with Brave. Once you turn off their crummy VPN and crypto advert it's effectively just google chrome with a built in ad blocker. I know there were arguments/concerns about the crypto thing, but I did a…
Interesting. I don’t notice any difference in stock browsers. With a ton of privacy extensions I do feel FF gets a bit laggy but that’s a price I’m willing to pay. On chrome I can’t even do these things.
Re: How to Firefox
#29Does anyone know how to reliably use Firefox from command line to take screenshots? It used to work well a few years ago but now it does not. For one, it asks that Firefox is already running and I need to kill it. This is surprising -- why can't two Firefox processes run at the same time?
Script with Playwright?
Re: How to Firefox
#30Firefox has no profiles. It has a bunch of hacks, such as containers, which are cumbersome to use. Chromium provides separate windows with different profiles, and Firefox should follow Chromium here. Firefox's "solution" forces you to switch Github tabs between personal and work containers constantly.
I use profiles on Firefox daily and they work fine https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profile-manager-create-...
The only way to access it with `about:profiles`? It looks like a joke. How could users possibly find this?
UPD. The more I look at this, the worse it gets. Hidden under a special URL, requires you to launch the default profile before you can switch to another profile (yes-yes, there are command-line hacks). It's more like a user data manager for devs than profiles for users. Even containers look better than these profiles.