Off topic but, what are people saying, feeling, about Bluesky these days. The comment section on this page integrated nice.
It's fine, but it's still social media. If you don't have to use it, I probably wouldn't.
How to Firefox
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Re: How to Firefox
#132I 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,…
>I've never felt impeded by loading speeds
I honestly think it's just something people here like to complain about. It's a complete non-issue. No everyday web experience is even close to being noticeably different. Full stop. It's almost like a meme, people say it because they think they should say it. I would ask those people that are complaining, what are you doing with all those extra milliseconds you claim you're saving?
Re: How to Firefox
#133[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
> No custom filters, so no element picker which allows you to point and zap
> No per-site switches
These aren't accurate. My version of uBOL in Chrome (2025.718.1921) has these features.
Re: How to Firefox
#134I had no idea how many ads load the average page. I just forgot because I have been using uBlock for so long. I have been hesitant to use Firefox, just because I am used to chrome. But after Google forcibly disabled software that I chose to run, I'm all in on Firefox.
In a way, an ad company disabling adblock on their browser makes perfect sense.
I'm happy they came around and showed the world what they're made of: ads.
For anyone who doesn't like ads jammed down their throat and their personal privacy blatantly sold off:
Google and Microsoft should be banned for obvious reasons.
Re: How to Firefox
#135A tip I would add to this article is that Firefox natively supports sidebar tabs now without needing hacky extensions. Go to about:preferences under the Browser Layout section of the General tab, and select Vertical Tabs. The tab group functionality along with Multi-Account Containers are a lot more useful under this layout IMO.
Tab Groups combined with Vertical tabs makes for a pretty awesome experience
Re: How to Firefox
#136'Reader view'! I use it on a daily basis.
Don't know if this is standard for any browser now, FF is my main browser since I left Opera...
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-reader-view-clu...
Re: How to Firefox
#137Does 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?
PROFILEDIR="$(mktemp -d)"
firefox --no-remote --profile "$PROFILEDIR" --screenshot $PWD/output.png https://xkcd.com
rm -r "$PROFILEDIR"
Re: How to Firefox
#138Lots 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.
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Re: How to Firefox
#139Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
You're arguing about average assumptions.
Your biases are leaning in different directions.
Running Windows software on Linux requires a bit of domain knowledge; e.g. Wine, Lutris, Proton. E.g. which software actually works really well, which software works with tweaks, and which software largely works but you need to avoid certain features. The fact that you need to install special software, and it isn't some core OS compatibility layer like 32-bit support makes it lean towards "runs Windows software and games" being a little ambitious. It's not a perfect user story, that's all.
Re: How to Firefox
#140I 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,…
>I've never felt impeded by loading speeds I honestly think it's just something people here like to complain about. It's a complete non-issue. No everyday web experience is even close to being noticeably different. Full stop. It's almost like a meme, people say it because they think they should say it. I would ask those people that are complaining, what are you doing with all those extra milliseconds you claim you're…
> what are you doing with all those extra milliseconds you claim you're saving?
Watching more ads.