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Re: How to Firefox

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Post by sto11z »

uallo wrote: post #60
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…

> You can manually install uBlock and just continue using it Only with Chrome 138 and lower. Chrome 139 will not support Manifest V2 anymore. https://developer.chrome.com/docs/extensions/develop/migrate... Seriously, use Firefox if you want to use uBlock Origin.

Oh! :/

Re: How to Firefox

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Post by benterix »

> The other line you see there? That one-liner blocks all those “Sign in with Google?” pop-ups.

This is one of these tiny improvements that will save you a second or two per website, but when you multiply it, it becomes significant. Kudos to all the people who made it possible.

Re: How to Firefox

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Post by CafeRacer »

homebrewer wrote: post #48
eclecticfrank wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

Life is unfair to me and Firefox works just fine.

Re: How to Firefox

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Post by Ygg2 »

TechDebtDevin wrote: post #57
Ygg2 wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

I'm curious what would make you even want to try with all the shenanigans Google has been up to. It seems obvious that its a bad idea.

I wanted to see just how bad is raw Chrome experience on Android. I've learned my lesson.

Re: How to Firefox

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Post by bool3max »

eclecticfrank wrote: post #80

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.

In the long run Alphabet will find a way to bar non-vetted browsers from accessing the Internet.

Re: How to Firefox

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Post by arp242 »

akazantsev wrote: post #30
paavope wrote: post #14

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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 pro…

You can use "firefox -ProfileManager". I didn't even know about about:profiles. There is some work on improving the UI: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profile-management

Anyway, your claim was "Firefox has no profiles". That is not true.

Re: How to Firefox

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Post by cainxinth »

I switched after Manifest v3. I won’t go back to Chrome as long as it limits ad-blocking, but I do miss its speed.

Firefox takes a long time to open (especially when you have a lot of extensions). Even with the same number of extensions, Chrome opens in a jiffy. There are other areas of slowdown as well. Sometimes I hit Control+D to bookmark a page and nothing happens. At first I thought maybe I was doing something wrong, but now I know to just wait, and sure enough five to ten seconds after I hit the shortcut it works. A delay that long (especially one with no notification of any kind) is really bad UX.

Re: How to Firefox

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Post by echelon »

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

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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.

It doesn't even matter if you're right.

0.0001% of users will use this. It's a non-starter.

The only solution to this problem is antitrust enforcement against Google.

Re: How to Firefox

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Post by mattlutze »

I am surprised how many people have so many problems with Firefox.

I've never felt impeded by loading speeds, and my ADHD regularly has me forgetting to restart it, to the tune of 100+ tabs open across multiple desktops. My wimply little MacBook Pro doesn't seem to mind.

The only downside I've found is that, because so many people just default to "Chrome or nothing," there's occasionally sites that have bugs because, like was the case in the 90s with Internet Explorer, the site developers took the idiomatic Chrome way of building a feature instead of something universal.

Re: How to Firefox

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Post by pipeline_peak »

A browser won’t survive off the user share of HN Raspberry Pi Guys.

Let’s be practical, the average user isn’t concerned about browser monopolization. Firefox isn’t going to catch up because its users made some philanthropic choice to use it. This isn’t Linux, the web is far too complex to write a modern browser for without corporate backing.

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