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Re: Hang on to Your Firefox

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Post by 3r7j6qzi9jvnve »

delecti wrote: post #151
olejorgenb wrote: post #90

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It's also better that the other browser in many ways. The "Awesome Bar" among them.

What's different about the Awesome Bar from Chrome? IIRC Chrome had the unified search/URL bar before Firefox did, and I don't remember it being very different from Firefox's implementation. If anything, I remember it being easier to add search engines in Chrome (unless it's gotten worse in the past few years since I switched to Firefox). Am I missing out on cool features of the URL bar in Firefox? Edit: made my ques…

Not sure if chrome has an equivalent but FF bar allows limiting results, e.g. adding a single % in the bar will search tabs, ^ history, * bookmarks, (+ searchs tagged bookmarks? there's no shiny icon)...

Re: Hang on to Your Firefox

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Post by encrypted_bird »

em-bee wrote: post #153
cosmic_cheese wrote: post #51

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I'm around middle age and keep tons of tabs open simply because I have a number of projects/tasks or soon-to-be projects/tasks going at any given point and managing associated websites is easier with tabs than it is with bookmarks. In other words, bookmark management UI/UX is inadequate and tab hoarding is the band-aid. There's also a higher chance that things will slip through the cracks and be forgotten if I bookma…

tab groups, a very recent feature, help a lot at keeping tabs organized. you can even archive whole groups if you no longer need them but don't want to throw them away

Exactly this. I used to be a tab minimalist, but vertical tabs + tab groups made having lots of tabs open viable for me.

Re: Hang on to Your Firefox

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Post by culi »

DrewADesign wrote: post #264
culi wrote: post #259

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Chrome is the only alternative unless you have access to Safari. Brave, Opera, Edge, etc are all Chromium and will all deprecate Manifest V2 eventually. The V2 mess is just one example of how Google can continue to stangle the web even if you're not using Chrome itself.

I use Waterfox or Librewolf

The "I use arch btw" of browsers.

Jk but tbh I think group them in with Firefox

Re: Hang on to Your Firefox

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Post by fjcururuvy7 »

autoexec wrote: post #53

> Meanwhile, the over thinkers on Hacker News come up with convoluted reasons to hate on Firefox every time the subject arises...Firefox is our last best hope for browser engine diversity and competition. It's exactly because Firefox is so important that you'll see people here complaining when Firefox does things to push away users like Mozilla buying up an ad-tech company, collecting data on users, and using firefox…

Can we donate a portion of our Claude subscription to open source yet?

Just fork it and have the agents maintain security patches moving forward.

Re: Hang on to Your Firefox

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Post by happytoexplain »

sumanep wrote: post #255
happytoexplain wrote: post #165

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Oh, sorry, in English your wording appears insulting. What don't I understand?

I think OP didn´t mean the "real" web standars (W3C) but what Google rules that is the actual standars in practice. Edge had to move from his own rendering engine to blink (crhomium) because of that. So "even" Microsoft could not fight that trend. Sorry for my english.

Right, I see what you mean. It's not entirely Microsoft's fault - I'm just taking a shot at them.

Re: Hang on to Your Firefox

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Post by bigstrat2003 »

Forgeties79 wrote: post #245
happytoexplain wrote: post #168

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These both look within the realm of reason. Not that you must agree with them, only that they are not some kind of hideous evil.

The dismissal of gendered language as politics is arguably “defensible” in a “I wrote this in a way that allows me to hide behind it” sort of way. It was wrong and needlessly dismissive in a way that clearly communicates he disagrees to anyone who understands typical internet discourse tactics. If he really did not want “political drama” or whatever there are far more effective ways to handle it that don't allow you…

There is absolutely nothing constructive about removing "gendered language". He was absolutely right to shut that nonsense down.

Re: Hang on to Your Firefox

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Post by encrypted_bird »

MrDrMcCoy wrote: post #64
peri-cl wrote: post #36

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I wish I had that level of executive functioning. I open tabs at a high branching rate, and faster than I have the impulse control to (for lack of a better word) run a garbage-collection pass over what I'd just done. When it balloons into the low thousands and starts hurting performance, I dump Firefox's open-tabs store (file called recovery.jsonlz4) into a different file and start over. At some point I'll point an L…

You could probably just use an extension that unloads inactive tabs from RAM, and maybe another that closes tabs that haven't been touched in over a week. Between those and an extension that closes duplicate tabs, it's pretty easy to get down to a sane number, no LLM required. If a tab is important, you'll be using it more often than once a week. I have a similar rule with impulse purchases: anything I want needs to…

>You could probably just use an extension that unloads inactive tabs from RAM

Doesn't Firefox already do this? (Or at least have an option for it?)

Re: Hang on to Your Firefox

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Post by beej71 »

mingus88 wrote: post #18
theamk wrote: post #3

I am using firefox, but it is pretty hard to keep using it. I don't want the whole world to converge on one browser engine, but I also want things to work, and Firefox does not make it easy. Firefox on my laptop has a propensity for eating lots of RAM, and constant CPU usage, even if nothing is going on. Task manager is useless. Profiler just shows "GC collecting". Mobile firefox is OK, it simply feels like it's desi…

I don’t know you, but most people I work with for some reason keep so many tabs open, the tab bar is squeezed so you can barely see a favicon Probably due to my age, I religiously close every tab after I read it. If that gets more than a dozen, I literally quit the browser and declare bankruptcy because it’s not worth it to sort through the mess of tabs I clearly am not using. Firefox is old too. I’m sure it could ma…

Nothing makes me happier than holding down ^W at the end of the day.

Re: Hang on to Your Firefox

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Post by kraken_cult »

culi wrote: post #253
GuB-42 wrote: post #160

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I will go further and say that people hate on Firefox because they care. We don't see many people here hating on Edge for instance, they may hate the fact that it always wants to force itself in, but not the browser itself. And that's simply because they don't use it, they don't even bother trying, they don't know what to hate about it and they don't care. Occasionally, some people say it is actually good, they get i…

I'm not sure about that. I think there's plenty of people who shit on Firefox to justify to their own ethical standards their preference for some Chromium-based browser.

I'm failing to parse the "own ethical standards" as it relates to chromium-based browsers and this conversation about firefox..can you maybe explain, does removing the ability for users to block adds seem more ethical than not?
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