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Fuck It, I'm Going Back to Firefox

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Re: Fuck It, I'm Going Back to Firefox

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Post by davmre »

Symmetry wrote: post #99

Firefox's performance has improved a lot and that's really impressive. I tried moving back to Firefox but in the end I just prefer the Chrome UI too much. Using a custom search engine on Chrome can be just a matter of a couple of key presses after opening a new tab whereas in firefox I'm either stuck holding down alt and using the arrow keys or switching to my mouse. And adding new search engines is super easy in Chr…

Not sure if this would solve your issues, but next time you try Firefox you should check out Instantfox (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/instantfox/). It implements a Chrome-like unified URL/search box and lets you run custom search engines with single-character prefixes (e.g. "w Barack Obama" hits Obama's Wikipedia page).

Re: Fuck It, I'm Going Back to Firefox

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Post by layman »

gear54rus wrote: post #4
lisa_henderson wrote: post #2

This has been exactly my experience. I was an early convert to Chrome, and I loved how fast it was, but now I find it slow and buggy. There are some partial workarounds: Chrome does a cache lookup on your history when you type, so if you delete your history, then you get a speed bump. But I'm annoyed that I have to erase my history. If I never erase my history, Chrome gets very slow after a few months of history pili…

I never switched to chrome since it seemed sub-par all that time (reduced set of controls, dumbed down all the way) but flash-related crashes are Adobe's problem actually (I also have them on FF sometimes). When will this proprietary crap die off already?

You do realize that Chrome is different from Chromium, the open source browser, right?

Re: Fuck It, I'm Going Back to Firefox

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Post by juliangregorian »

atesti wrote: post #28
nvk wrote: post #7

The biggest issue I have with Chrome is how aggressive it's been about linking Google IDs with the browser. I've lost data twice by bugs related to not having a linked ID. Please Google, understand this; I don't want my browser linked with my Google account.

How did you loose data that way? And I agree 100% with you!

I also lost data by this: I was trying to disable browser profiles but inadvertently deleted the cloud portion of my account that stored all my bookmarks.

I'm a goddamn software developer, software doesn't usually make me feel stupid. So congrats to Google on that I guess...

Re: Fuck It, I'm Going Back to Firefox

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Post by [deleted] »

justcommenting wrote: post #95
nvk wrote: post #7

The biggest issue I have with Chrome is how aggressive it's been about linking Google IDs with the browser. I've lost data twice by bugs related to not having a linked ID. Please Google, understand this; I don't want my browser linked with my Google account.

> I don't want my browser linked with my Google account. You might want to pay a lot more attention to SSL-based tracking methods, e.g. https://sites.google.com/a/chromium.org/dev/Home/chromium-se... Uncoupling your use of Google services from your other online activities is much harder than many people seem to believe.

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Re: Fuck It, I'm Going Back to Firefox

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Post by ademarre »

gvb wrote: post #15

I read the article hoping for something insightful, but when I read the paragraph ...a half-dozen tabs that auto-open on launch thanks to the dozens of extensions I've accumulated over the years[...] I had to stop and say "wait, what?" To leverage his analogy that it is like coming home to a new house to find that most of your stuff is already there, it is like not cleaning your house and not taking out the trash for…

Right. That paragraph about the extensions makes me question the credibility of his claims. Disappointing. I haven't experienced the performance problems he describes, and I use the Chrome dev channel for my main browser.

I've noticed Firefox has been getting faster over the last couple years, but when I use it I still get the feeling that it gets in my way more than Chrome does.

Edit: fix typo

Re: Fuck It, I'm Going Back to Firefox

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Post by igl »

nvk wrote: post #7

The biggest issue I have with Chrome is how aggressive it's been about linking Google IDs with the browser. I've lost data twice by bugs related to not having a linked ID. Please Google, understand this; I don't want my browser linked with my Google account.

There are forks of chromium like iron improving the situation... If people would use them and contribute.

Re: Fuck It, I'm Going Back to Firefox

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Post by wvenable »

at_ wrote: post #21

The reliability of Firefox's post-crash 'session restore' is what made me stick with it for good over Chrome. Life of a power tabber.

I can't live without Tab Mix Plus and multi-row tabs on Firefox. On Chrome I can't even be a power tabber. It's pretty much the only reason I've stuck with Firefox over Chrome.

The post-crash session restore seems to work well for me; and luckily it's not a frequent occurrence.

Re: Fuck It, I'm Going Back to Firefox

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Post by pmontra »

nvk wrote: post #20
doe88 wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They want to make their little OS inside your current OS, so that's it, they introduce accounts, users, apps, notifications... Meanwhile most people (including me) just want to browse the damn open internet.

They are free to that, just please give me a reasonable way of opting out.

The new Opera has the same engine of Chrome and none of the inconveniences. I'm using Firefox as primary browser and Chrome in another virtual desktop to work in Google Drive because it's a little faster (maybe too many extensions). I replaced it with Opera and it works well. I have no idea if it can use Chrome extensions, never installed one anyway as it was a single purpose browser.

Re: Fuck It, I'm Going Back to Firefox

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Post by mccr8 »

Symmetry wrote: post #99

Firefox's performance has improved a lot and that's really impressive. I tried moving back to Firefox but in the end I just prefer the Chrome UI too much. Using a custom search engine on Chrome can be just a matter of a couple of key presses after opening a new tab whereas in firefox I'm either stuck holding down alt and using the arrow keys or switching to my mouse. And adding new search engines is super easy in Chr…

You can add a custom search in Firefox by right clicking on a search box, then clicking on "Add a keyword for this search". Then save a bookmark with a keyword, like "so" for stack overflow.

Then you can enter this in the URL bar: so python reverse list

...and you'll get a search for "python reverse list".

This is much less magical than how it works in Chrome, and harder to discover, but once you get it set up it is reasonably convenient.

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