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Re: How to Firefox

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Post by silvanocerza »

stby wrote: post #4

The article implies that tabs, bookmarks, passwords can only be synchronised between Firefox installations and not with Zen or Libre (I assume this refers to LibreWolf?), but at least Zen can be connected to the Mozilla account and synchronises everything with the other connected Firefox, Firefox for Android, ... installations.

> Zen can be connected to the Mozilla account and synchronises everything with the other connected Firefox, Firefox for Android, ... installations.

They made this work? I remember testing it out some months ago and it didn't work because of some reason.

Re: How to Firefox

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Post by eclecticfrank »

midnitewarrior wrote: post #24

Just 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 de…

Brave wants to replace "bad" ads from third parties with their own "good" ads.[1]

They have also in the past been caught adding their own referral codes to crypto transaction URLs pasted into their browser. [2]

[1] https://www.pcmag.com/how-to/how-to-earn-and-use-cryptocurre... [2] https://www.pcmag.com/news/brave-browser-caught-redirecting-...

Re: How to Firefox

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Post by germandiago »

pta2002 wrote: post #19
akazantsev wrote: post #5

Firefox 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.

This is weird to me because I so much prefer Firefox's per-tab containers to having to use separate windows for profiles. I wish chrome had something like it.

The problem here IMHO is that when many tabs are open it becomes confusing quickly which tabs have what. With a profile everything is clear.

I used Firefox and I like it but honestly the profiles were more difficult to use than Chrome's.

Re: How to Firefox

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Post by thoroughburro »

cwillu wrote: post #23
thoroughburro wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

No, I don’t agree. And Linux does run Windows software and games; I use this ability all the time.

Are there really people who read that and think “ALL Windows software and games” is implied? Bizarre to me.

Re: How to Firefox

#36

Post by jdalt »

ketanmaheshwari wrote: post #6

Does 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?

Use playwright?

Re: How to Firefox

#38

Post by javier_e06 »

Firefox is all that.

Except on my arm-based crhomebook. There it gets confused and do not resize properly thinking is in phone format.

Also cast to chromecast is a no-go.

If it wasn't by those 2 issues I would have ditched chrome long time ago.

Re: How to Firefox

#39

Post by skrebbel »

I would just like to add that in my experience, "How to Firefox" is just:

- Download Firefox

- Install uBlock Origin

- Use Firebox

Somehow this blog post makes it seem like adopting Firefox is hard, or overwhelming, or some multi step process, and if you don't do those steps you're effectively downgrading. But really it isn't. It's a browser. Its UX is great. It just... works.

The suggestion that to use it properly you need to customize it to the max is simply flat out wrong.

Re: How to Firefox

#40

Post by dartharva »

eclecticfrank wrote: post #32
midnitewarrior wrote: post #24

Just 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 de…

Brave wants to replace "bad" ads from third parties with their own "good" ads.[1] They have also in the past been caught adding their own referral codes to crypto transaction URLs pasted into their browser. [2] [1] https://www.pcmag.com/how-to/how-to-earn-and-use-cryptocurre... [2] https://www.pcmag.com/news/brave-browser-caught-redirecting-...

You can disable Brave Shields and just use classic uBO (which Brave supports) instead.
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