Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

How to Firefox

kau.sh

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

91–100 of 505 posts

Re: How to Firefox

#91

Post by l72 »

MatejKafka wrote: post #16
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.

Containers feel like a much more useful feature to me than profiles - I don't wanna open a new window for each website that I want to isolate from my main session, but with containers, it's trivial.

I mostly agree, and I personally just use containers (and heavily!) However, that has not been the case for my spouse. Profiles are important to her in two scenarios:

1. The primary website she uses for grad school (canvas) REQUIRES third party cookies to be enabled for it to work. Containers cannot have different settings here, but profiles can. So she can have a School profile that enables 3rd party cookies and she just uses this profile for Canvas.

2. She likes to keep ALL of her work stuff separate and not have that sync to her personal mobile. So she has Personal Profile (with containers) and a Work Profile (also with containers). The two profiles are themed differently, so it makes it very clear if she is in her "work" browser or "personal" browser.

Firefox's profile management has been a struggle for her (I found creating different application icons for each profile worked best), and I am very excited about the new profile manager!

Re: How to Firefox

#92

Post by ubj »

[EDIT]: I was wrong, uBlock Origin Lite was addressed by the article and does not have the same features.

Re: How to Firefox

#93

Post by freeAgent »

jeroenhd wrote: post #64
thoroughburro wrote: post #2

> Here’s something the iPhone isn’t getting anytime soon: honest-to-god browser extensions that you use on your desktop, also on your phone. This convinces me the author is not knowledgeable about current browser capabilities. They probably haven’t tried anything but Firefox in a long time. Orion runs desktop (Firefox) extensions on iOS, and is in many ways a breath of fresh air. Instead of parroting “all iOS browser…

I tried Orion after reading this, but other than uBlock Origin I haven't had much luck with getting extensions to work. I guess the extensions I use don't really overlap with the 70% they do support. If they've been working hard on this for years, I have to wonder what will happen first, actual mobile extension support on iOS through Kagi or a Firefox release for iOS. The entire Orion browser feels like a beta produc…

It is literally in beta, so it feeling like a beta product isn’t surprising. It does work with the extensions I need and it’s my primary browser on iOS, but I still find it too buggy and crash-prone on the desktop. That seems to be improving, but it’s not convinced me that it’s reliable enough yet.

Re: How to Firefox

#94

Post by fsflover »

sixhobbits wrote: post #69

This is pretty similar to my set up but I'm ready to quit Firefox because what feels like every few weeks they somehow manage to add new auto-enabled spyware. I regularly have to turn stuff off in "Firefox Data Collection and Use" and "Website Advertising Preferences" Recently I also started seeing ads in my address bar when typing stuff and saw they've added: "Suggestions from sponsors Support Firefox with occasiona…

> but I'm ready to quit Firefox because

This is still nowhere near Google's browser.

Re: How to Firefox

#95

Post by chamomeal »

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…

I use firefox to work on SPA’s and occasionally use chrome for compatibility checks. I haven’t really noticed a difference in speed, except for startup time (which firefox is definitely slower, but I also have it open pretty much all the time anyway)

Re: How to Firefox

#96

Post by Vinnl »

ubj wrote: post #92

[EDIT]: I was wrong, uBlock Origin Lite was addressed by the article and does not have the same features.

See the section in the article that starts with:

> Sure, there’s uBlock Origin “Lite” now, which does the same thing, right?

Re: How to Firefox

#97

Post by vntok »

I wonder how much posts like these do to push people away from Firefox and towards other alternatives like Brave, Orion, etc.

Surely, given the HN audience, virtually nobody in here is seriously discovering that Firefox exists. However, once the HN reader's mind is set to move away from Chrome, the comments here always push various alternatives to Firefox (mostly forks) that might be unknown and interesting to try.

Another way to reason about it is such posts in such communities probably don't pull a lot of "normies" to Firefox... however they probably also push a lot of "nerds" to Firefox alternatives, not to Firefox itself.

Re: How to Firefox

#98

Post by nxtbl »

ubj wrote: post #92

[EDIT]: I was wrong, uBlock Origin Lite was addressed by the article and does not have the same features.

from TFA:

    Filter lists update only when the extension updates, no fetching up to date lists from servers (this is a big one!)

    No custom filters, so no element picker which allows you to point and zap

    Many filters are dropped at conversion time due to MV3’s limited filter syntax

    No strict-blocked pages

    No per-site switches

    No dynamic filtering

    No importing external lists

Re: How to Firefox

#99

Post by perlgeek »

One of my main reasons for staying with Firefox is that in the long term, I think it's good to have a diversity in browser engines.

Back when I started web development, there were standards, but nearly everybody just coded to what Internet Explorer supported. Which I really hated :-)

In the past few years, I've seen the occasional "works best with Chrome" website, which worries me, but so far it hasn't been too bad.

But if we as a community leave the browser market to Chrome and browsers with engines of similar origin as Chrome's, we'll get back to the bad old days.

Re: How to Firefox

#100

Post by fsflover »

iamkonstantin wrote: post #18

I tried Firefox just a few days ago, but it didn't work out. I just missed too many things out of the box. My main browser is Vivaldi (so all the chromium goodies + privacy + made in EU). Safari comes in as a close second, I tend to use it on the go because it syncs well with my Mac and Apple throttles any other browser on iOS.

> I just missed too many things out of the box.

Another very vague comment bashing Firefox without any real explanation.

Post reply on HN