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Re: How to Firefox

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Post by bmn__ »

sbdaman wrote: post #175
benterix wrote: post #82

> 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.

>but when you multiply it, it becomes significant. Does it?

Yes, the concept is called "shut up and multiply". I estimate the content-blocking counter-measure has saved hundreds of man-years.

On the days I feel particularly nasty like Ellison's character The Ticktockman, I wish that the programmers and the product managers who are responsible for the enshittification get this time subtracted from their life.

Re: How to Firefox

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Post by rc_kas »

FrankyHollywood wrote: post #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...

This is indeed my favorite FireFox feature. Sometimes it even helps get past article paywalls to read the article.

Re: How to Firefox

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Post by WorldMaker »

bashkiddie wrote: post #201
mattlutze wrote: post #89

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,…

I am a heavy user of firefox and I am still unhappy with mozillas policy. * Firefox-Hello is a easy to pick example of a broken service run by a 3rd party being imposed on users. * Pocket is another service I never asked for. * Instead of focusing on the browser, mozilla puts their effort into an English language database. It appears to me mozilla does not understand their target audience. Recently I tried to customi…

Pocket is shutting down soon and fresh Firefox installs don't install its extension any more.

Re: How to Firefox

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Post by cosmic_cheese »

fsflover wrote: post #200
cosmic_cheese wrote: post #149

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It’s still something of an exaggeration. If you take a look at the source for iOS browsers, the amount of unique code is non-trivial. At minimum, it’s a sliding scale rather than binary and iOS browsers are less Safari reskins than Chromium-based browsers (most of which share a much higher percentage of code) are Chrome reskins. There’s exceptions like Arc which uses a bespoke AppKit/SwiftUI/WinUI UI instead of the s…

> the amount of unique code is non-trivial This doesn't matter as long as essential features of Firefox aren't allowed by Apple.

Orion has proven that web extensions are allowed, even if its implementation isn’t complete. There’s no guideline preventing a browser with a user-hackable UI (like Firefox userChrome) but nobody’s tried that yet. What’s left? As far as I’m aware, it’s just the small handful of manifest v2 request interceptor APIs that uBlock Origin depends on that can’t be supported fully.

Re: How to Firefox

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Post by EbNar »

ahmetcadirci25 wrote: post #147

This is something that has been on my mind for years — I want to use Firefox, but for some strange reason, it just doesn’t feel as smooth as Chrome. Here are the features of Firefox that I find particularly appealing: - The Firefox Multi-Account Containers feature, in my opinion, is what puts this browser at the top. - Additionally, the privacy extensions work incredibly well. However, there are some drawbacks: - Str…

> it just doesn’t feel as smooth as Chrome

Because it isn't.

https://arewefastyet.com/win11/benchmarks/overview?numDays=6...

Re: How to Firefox

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Post by lillecarl »

rs186 wrote: post #169
thinkingtoilet wrote: post #132

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>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…

When you have web pages that that completely freeze the Firefox browser but work smoothly on Chrome, you won't call it non-issue.

I don't know why I should lower my browsing standards to a Chrome experience because a small percentage of websites work poorly in Firefox. My password manager works in all browsers so I have Chrome with only PW manager and uBlock Lite so I can use it for the ONE website I use that doesn't work in FF.

I don't think it's frustrating to press Ctrl+L, Ctrl+C, $launcher-bind(Meta+D), Ctrl+L, Ctrl+V, Enter to open another browser.

My average experience is a lot better with Firefox and that's what I optimize for.

Re: How to Firefox

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Post by EbNar »

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).

https://arewefastyet.com/win11/benchmarks/overview?numDays=6...

This is from Mozilla themselves.

Re: How to Firefox

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Post by hunter-gatherer »

rs186 wrote: post #169
thinkingtoilet wrote: post #132

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>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…

When you have web pages that that completely freeze the Firefox browser but work smoothly on Chrome, you won't call it non-issue.

I have been on Firefox for some years now on Mac, Linux, Windows, and Android. Last year the IRS website had some issues, but that seems to be resolved. Otherwise, I've had zero breakages that cone to mind. I use ublock origin, and pivacy badger, and a few other extensions. I wonder if sometimes the issues people experience with firefox are actually caused from their extensions???

If you haven't used Firefox in a minute, I recommend trying it oht again.

Re: How to Firefox

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Post by ahmetcadirci25 »

sebstefan wrote: post #213
ahmetcadirci25 wrote: post #147

This is something that has been on my mind for years — I want to use Firefox, but for some strange reason, it just doesn’t feel as smooth as Chrome. Here are the features of Firefox that I find particularly appealing: - The Firefox Multi-Account Containers feature, in my opinion, is what puts this browser at the top. - Additionally, the privacy extensions work incredibly well. However, there are some drawbacks: - Str…

> - I can't run the extensions I develop in dev mode. I haven’t been able to find a solution for this. That said, I don't encounter this issue in LibreWolf. I don't have this problem. I was gonna type a long winded thing to descrbe how I do it but since you managed to make it work in LibreWolf it's likely not an issue with how you're doing it >- I experience video codec issues, which I hope I’m not the only one facin…

- In Librewolf, when I set the `xpinstall.signatures.required` preference to `false` in the `about:config` section, I'm able to install my `.xpi` extension. However, this setting doesn't work in Firefox.

- The other issue was related to codecs. On Windows, I encountered an error message saying: "No video with supported format and MIME type found."

The issue was resolved after installing the following codecs on Windows:

https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9mvzqvxjbq9v

https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9n4d0msmp0pt

Re: How to Firefox

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Post by aembleton »

sbdaman wrote: post #175
benterix wrote: post #82

> 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.

>but when you multiply it, it becomes significant. Does it?

Yes; and not having the visual noise is pleasant.
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