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Re: How to Firefox

#41

Post by keyringlight »

paavope wrote: post #14
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.

I use profiles on Firefox daily and they work fine https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profile-manager-create-...

Another thing you can do is run multiple profiles at the same time with the -no-remote argument , so "firefox -P profilename -no-remote"

Re: How to Firefox

#43

Post by rwc »

thoroughburro wrote: post #35
cwillu wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Yes. If you say you’re compatible with Windows software and games, my expectation as a user is that everything “just works”.

Re: How to Firefox

#44

Post by sto11z »

I tried transitioning to FF from Chrome several times, but it just feels so unresonsive and slow in comparison. I really wanted to, but ultimately couldn't.

On a side note: You can manually install uBlock and just continue using it:

- Enter chrome://flags in chrome’s URL input

- Search for ‘Allow legacy extension manifest versions’

- Enable it and relaunch browser

- Download the latest zip file of uBlock version from github: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/releases

- Under Assets, download the chromium zip and extract it

- Open the extension page in chrome, click the Load Unpacked button on top left side load (enable Developer Mode in the top right if it doesn't appear), then select the extracted folder.

Re: How to Firefox

#45

Post by Ygg2 »

sto11z wrote: post #44

I tried transitioning to FF from Chrome several times, but it just feels so unresonsive and slow in comparison. I really wanted to, but ultimately couldn't. On a side note: You can manually install uBlock and just continue using it: - Enter chrome://flags in chrome’s URL input - Search for ‘Allow legacy extension manifest versions’ - Enable it and relaunch browser - Download the latest zip file of uBlock version from…

Understandable. I tried moving from Firefox to Chrome but I couldn't. Pages are so slow to load and there are adds everywhere.

Re: How to Firefox

#46

Post by jraph »

keyringlight wrote: post #41
paavope wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I use profiles on Firefox daily and they work fine https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profile-manager-create-...

Another thing you can do is run multiple profiles at the same time with the -no-remote argument , so "firefox -P profilename -no-remote"

You don't need the -no-remote parameter anymore btw from what I can see.

Re: How to Firefox

#47

Post by treyd »

thoroughburro wrote: post #35
cwillu wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

If you wrote a function in a dynamically typed language and the documentation said "this accepts integers", but actually it crashed if you gave a prime integer and you only expected people to give it composite integers, people would say that the documentation was inaccurate.

Re: How to Firefox

#48

Post by homebrewer »

eclecticfrank wrote: post #22
esskay wrote: post #3

I 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).

If your life has been as unfair to you as it has been to some of us, and forced you to work on SPAs as the result, try opening any large frontend project that uses Vite (or any other dev server that serves each file separately instead of bundling them).

If you're unfamiliar with this stuff, it results in your browser fetching thousands of JavaScript files from the local dev server.

Any Chromium-based browser handles that just fine in about 1-2 seconds. Firefox takes at least ten, including full page reloads. No adblocking on either, and yes I've tried all combinations of about:config knobs, fresh/empty profiles, etc.

That's the only reason I use Chromium for development work.

Re: How to Firefox

#49

Post by thoroughburro »

rwc wrote: post #43
thoroughburro wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Yes. If you say you’re compatible with Windows software and games, my expectation as a user is that everything “just works”.

You changed the phrase from “runs Windows software and games” to “compatible with Windows software and games”. I’m talking about the former phrase. The latter does imply more, but I didn’t say it; you did.

Re: How to Firefox

#50

Post by boobsbr »

skrebbel wrote: post #39

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 y…

You forgot

- Disable all telemetry

in your list.

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