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Re: How to Firefox

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Post by sorenjan »

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 have a shortcut that starts a separate profile like this:

   -profile  -no-remote
Separate bookmarks, separate search engines, separate history, etc. I've been using it for years, I usually have a Firefox window for each profile open on separate desktops, there's no problems running them at the same time.

Re: How to Firefox

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Post by CharlieDigital »

pritambaral wrote: post #53
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.

> Firefox has no profiles. Patently false. Been using profiles for years. > bunch of hacks, such as containers, which are cumbersome to use. Firefox's "solution" forces you to switch Github tabs between personal and work containers constantly. Rarely have I had to that. Until I added rules to open certain URLs in specific containers. > Chromium provides separate windows with different profiles, and Firefox should fol…

I personally prefer containers to profiles. Rather have one window with many tabs than many windows.

Re: How to Firefox

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Post by krige »

silvanocerza wrote: post #31
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.

Yeah, it works as of ~3 months ago until now. t. user

Re: How to Firefox

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Post by karel-3d »

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…

I still see random crypto ads on new tab page.

I never bothered to turn it off, it's possible I guess but it's an interesting window to a bizarro world for me. (Oh some new blockchain NFT game! People still do that in 2025 apparently? Now with AI hype crap instead of metaverse hype crap?)

It's never bothering me as it never advertises anything that I am actually interested in.

Re: How to Firefox

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Post by beshrkayali »

The main problem Firefox has really is Mozilla. And Orion is neat but too immature and the direction Kagi is taking in general seems to be moving further away from a indie company with a single purpose. I hope they manage to steer themselves back into what got people excited about them to begin with.

But sure, anything but Chrome.

Re: How to Firefox

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Post by uallo »

jvdvegt wrote: post #72

A bit ironic that I cannot see the left few pixels of that site in Firefox on Android. (A 'T' starts at the vertical bar)

Why "ironic"? The website is using flexbox incorrectly, all spec-compliant browsers have that behaviour on small viewports. Using the "safe" keyword fixes that.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/align-items...

Re: How to Firefox

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Post by Andrew_nenakhov »

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…

I have used Firefox for many years now on all my devices, and I find it much better at almost anything: password management works better accross devices, history syncs better, etc. With chrome I could never really rely on saving a password on desktop, taking the phone and having a password just there.

Maybe it improved in the past few years, I didn't bother to check.

Also, Firefox is the last non-chrome-engined browser so it is worth using for that reason alone. Browser monopoly is bad and WILL be used against you, eventually.

Re: How to Firefox

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Post by zac23or »

I use Firefox, Chrome, and Edge on a Windows 10 machine.

I use Chrome 90% of the time because Firefox is slow and has many bugs on video sites like 9gag. The screen goes black, the video loses vertical sync, etc. The same happens with Edge.

In my experience, the problem with Firefox's popularity is technical. I'll use Firefox more often if it improves. Before Firefox 3.6 (probably that version), Firefox was my most used browser, but after that version, Firefox started getting slower and more buggy. I switched to Chrome because IE was unusable on some sites.

I've never used Firefox much on Android, but when I did, it was slower than Chrome.

It's likely that if Firefox fixes the issues, they'll gain traction again, but right now, I don't see that happening. Mozilla's goals are different.

Re: How to Firefox

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Post by eclecticfrank »

Lots of Firefox hate here, but little discussion about the articles kicker, which is the exclusion of uBlock Origin from Chrome.

I hope this will mean that in the long run Firefox (and other secondary browsers) will gain more users again. For me, Firefox is a solid piece of software. Works well in strict privacy mode, with uBlock Origin and Multi-Account Containers.

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