Fuck It, I'm Going Back to Firefox

Post by Argorak » Fri, Feb 13, 2015, 9:22 PM UTC

yellowapple wrote: post #262

grandalf wrote: post #204

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This is probably b/c most people at Google use computers with 32GB of ram.

This might sound silly to some, but I wouldn't be surprised if Google limited its usability tests to high-end machines with RAM in the double-digits. I reckon most programming teams have this issue, since even if they're dogfooding, they're doing so on high-end hardware, meaning that low-end hardware is untested and often unusable. Google isn't the only culprit; many websites nowadays will start to lean heavier towar…

Post by dblohm7 » Fri, Feb 13, 2015, 9:23 PM UTC

frik wrote: post #247

wldcordeiro wrote: post #210

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If you have Electrolysis there should be more than just firefox and plugin-container. Currently I run Nightly as my main browser and have to keep it disabled though due to some plugins I use lacking Electrolysis support (the fix is not on the plugin maker's side.)

I run the current Firefox 38 Nightly 64-bit Windows version with "Enable E10S (multi-process)" turned on (default setting). There are only two processes.

Post by dblohm7 » Fri, Feb 13, 2015, 9:25 PM UTC

bentcorner wrote: post #79

I really like Firefox but the big annoying part that I run into is that Sync seems to blow away extension-specific settings whenever I install Firefox on a new machine. Like, the new machine doesn't have any of my settings for the extensions it knows I already have installed on a different machine, and then Sync happily syncs the new settings to the other machines, blowing it away there too. Thanks, Sync. I'm a big f…

Post by wyclif » Fri, Feb 13, 2015, 9:26 PM UTC

sbochins wrote: post #143

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…

I still use pentadactyl, even though it isn't being supported AFAIK. These kind of customizations are not possible on chrome. This is why I never switched even when it was cool.

Post by dblohm7 » Fri, Feb 13, 2015, 9:28 PM UTC

mattchew wrote: post #251

I'd like to switch back to Firefox, but they do not support inverted colors like Chrome does. Hacker Vision on Chrome is sooooo good. The closest I've found for Firefox is Color Toggle, but it fails in a lot of places, enough that FF+CT is not usable as my main browser. (This difference might be laid at the feet of the plugin writers, but I have the idea that there is inversion support available in the browser in Chr…