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Yahoo Starts Prompting Chrome Users to “Upgrade” to Firefox

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Re: Yahoo Starts Prompting Chrome Users to “Upgrade” to Firefox

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Post by fooqux »

notatoad wrote: post #84
bobajeff wrote: post #36

Good for Mozilla. They need some promotion from websites. I've heard that Google use to do this for them but I guess that changed once they made their own browser. I'm still not going to use Yahoo search as it's really just Google search only not as good. Hopefully one day there will be a challenge to Google.

>I'm still not going to use Yahoo search as it's really just Google search Yahoo is a Bing frontend now. Same as DuckDuckGo.

According to https://duck.co/help/results/sources you are incorrect. DuckDuckGo pulls their results from many sources, including bing, Yahoo, and their own bots.

Re: Yahoo Starts Prompting Chrome Users to “Upgrade” to Firefox

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Post by EpicEng »

sp332 wrote: post #77
Igglyboo wrote: post #64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Firefox still doesn't have per process tabs(yes I know about nightlies), so it's a no go for me.

Firefox won't have a process per tab. Even in the multiprocess versions, it has one process for the UI and one for all the tabs' content. That way it doesn't take tons of RAM for overhead if you have lots of tabs, but heavy tab content can't freeze the UI. You can change the number of tab-processes in about:config under dom.ipc.processCount.

"That way it doesn't take tons of RAM for overhead"

Weird; I switched from FF to Chrome specifically because FF was a huge memory hog. I have read that it is better these days though.

-- what does the downvoting mean here exactly? That I didn't experience excessive memory usage in FF and I'm lying?

Re: Yahoo Starts Prompting Chrome Users to “Upgrade” to Firefox

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Post by sp332 »

EpicEng wrote: post #92
sp332 wrote: post #77

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Firefox won't have a process per tab. Even in the multiprocess versions, it has one process for the UI and one for all the tabs' content. That way it doesn't take tons of RAM for overhead if you have lots of tabs, but heavy tab content can't freeze the UI. You can change the number of tab-processes in about:config under dom.ipc.processCount.

"That way it doesn't take tons of RAM for overhead" Weird; I switched from FF to Chrome specifically because FF was a huge memory hog. I have read that it is better these days though. -- what does the downvoting mean here exactly? That I didn't experience excessive memory usage in FF and I'm lying?

Yeah, they have a MemShrink team now. https://wiki.mozilla.org/Performance/MemShrink They got serious about memory leaks in their own code, and even took steps to limit hogging by 3rd-party plugins. Now they host https://AreWeSlimYet.com/ to track regressions. Edit: and Chrome really does take a ton of RAM if you have lots of tabs open.

Re: Yahoo Starts Prompting Chrome Users to “Upgrade” to Firefox

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Post by dmdeller »

joosters wrote: post #78
jgallag8 wrote: post #68

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I use duckduckgo mainly, because I like what they are doing. From time to time I will get search results that aren't very relevant. In these cases, I just prepend '!google' to my search.

You can also use !sp to get Google results without Google tracking.

You can now also use !s which is the same as !sp.

Note that it works as either a prefix or a suffix - it might be easier to put the insertion point at the end of the text box.

If you're using Safari, you can use my Safari extension to do this with a toolbar button or keyboard shortcut: http://horizon-nigh.org/re-search/

Re: Yahoo Starts Prompting Chrome Users to “Upgrade” to Firefox

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Post by chc »

nosefrog wrote: post #65
chc wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think this can be generalized further: I've been using $RELATIVELY_FRESH_BROWSER_INSTALL again recently. I stopped when it was slower and less stable than $BROWSER_I_HAVE_NOW_BEEN_USING_A_LONG_TIME. These days it often feels faster than $BROWSER_I_HAVE_NOW_BEEN_USING_A_LONG_TIME.

Does this apply when all the major browsers (save IE, though it's been a while) update unobtrusively?

I don't see how it has anything to do with how obtrusive the updates are.

Re: Yahoo Starts Prompting Chrome Users to “Upgrade” to Firefox

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Post by cpeterso »

sp332 wrote: post #77
Igglyboo wrote: post #64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Firefox still doesn't have per process tabs(yes I know about nightlies), so it's a no go for me.

Firefox won't have a process per tab. Even in the multiprocess versions, it has one process for the UI and one for all the tabs' content. That way it doesn't take tons of RAM for overhead if you have lots of tabs, but heavy tab content can't freeze the UI. You can change the number of tab-processes in about:config under dom.ipc.processCount.

Another advantage of using one process for all tabs is that Firefox can take advantage of security sandboxing of the content process without the overhead of tons of per-tab processes. (Quite a few Firefox users like using hundreds of tabs. :) Eventually Firefox will tweak the tabs/process balance to find a good compromise.

Re: Yahoo Starts Prompting Chrome Users to “Upgrade” to Firefox

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Post by arca_vorago »

glaslong wrote: post #79
jgallag8 wrote: post #68

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I use duckduckgo mainly, because I like what they are doing. From time to time I will get search results that aren't very relevant. In these cases, I just prepend '!google' to my search.

Now that I've gotten used to them, I really like the !bang operators. They're incredibly convenient. A few of the ones I abuse constantly: !g - google !bi - bing image !yt - youtube !so - stackoverflow !w - wikipedia !py - python docs The exhaustive list is here: https://duckduckgo.com/bang.html

!images goes straight to google images.

Re: Yahoo Starts Prompting Chrome Users to “Upgrade” to Firefox

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Post by cpeterso »

DoubleMalt wrote: post #17

That would probably make me stop using Yahoo. Although I grudgingly accept a similar prompt on mobile Workflowy (I use firefox there and are prompted to use Chrome for it) even though it annoys the crap out of me. There is not even a possibility to turn this off. But for Yahoo I have alternatives for workflowy not (yet).

Do you use Google search? Google promotes Chrome on their own sites all the time.
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