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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 wutbrodo »

jcoffland wrote: post #245
FilterJoe wrote: post #177

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The problem is using many open tabs with Chrome. If you use no more than 3 or 4 tabs, Chrome is generally fine. If you use more than that, Firefox has some built-in features to help with tabs such as delayed tab loading and tab grouping. It also has more and better extensions for helping with multiple tabs. Furthermore, it doesn't launch a new process for each tab. In a browser comparison I wrote last month, I includ…

I regularly have several hundred tabs open in Firefox with no problems. Some people may think this is crazy or messy but I find it very useful for organizing the various projects I'm working on for different clients and my own personal projects. Tab groups and delayed loading make it all very smooth. Such usage is just not possible with Chrome. I tried to switch to Chrome but couldn't find the features I needed and d…

> Such usage is just not possible with Chrome.

In your opinion, what makes this "impossible"? I also use a few hundred tabs at any one time (also to the consternation of everyone who sees any _one_ of the Chrome windows I have open) and I'm very happy with Chrome.

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

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Post by LukeHoersten »

Same problem with Chrome for me. I ended up switching to Safari and have been really happy. In iOS, lots of apps only have an option to open pages in Safari and because I use cloud tab sharing etc, Safari on the desktop was really the only option for me. I started using Safari's built in style-stripping reader and reading list and have been really happy. Also, they have consistent swipe-for-history across iOS and OS X. Chrome did not and I'm still not use to it.

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

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Post by Zancarius »

_lce0 wrote: post #430
Zancarius wrote: post #325

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Edit: I want to apologize to eridal. I misread his/her statement and though the browser in question was Chrome, not Firefox. So, public apolgy: I'm very sorry, eridal. I thought you wrote something you did not. My comment was wrong as a result. I have corrected my mistake, and wish to apologize to you personally for misreading what you wrote. Original message with the offending part removed, mistakenly assuming erida…

why don't? unused tabs won't consume much, or at least noticeable to me. I do have a coffee-break whenever I open my IDE

> why don't? unused tabs won't consume much, or at least noticeable to me.

Because I COMPLETELY misread your original comment. :( I thought it read that you were using Chrome, not Firefox.

I'm truly very sorry about that, eridal.

My experiences are just like yours, though. Firefox works great for me (relatively low memory usage, up to and including 200+ tabs). Chrome, on the other hand, not so much.

Hopefully you can see why I was surprised, but it was through the entire fault of my own eyes apparently interleaving another comment with yours. I'm an idiot. ;)

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

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Post by wutbrodo »

dergachev wrote: post #390
ntsh wrote: post #364

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Sometimes Ctrl+w can lead to horrible pain if you accidentally hit Q which is just next to w.

Chrome has a menu item toggle called "Warn before quitting" that I just enabled, and it has already saved me a bunch of times!!!! In OSX it's under the Chrome menu item (before File), don't know where they stuck it in Windows.

I can't seem to find this in my settings : (. This bit me every once in a while, and as I keep hundreds of tabs open, it's a huge pain in the ass to restore Chrome. I ended up remapping the ctrl+q shortcut to do nothing.

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

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Post by e15ctr0n »

metastart wrote: post #449
shmerl wrote: post #198

> Remember when we all switched from Firefox to Chrome? I remember the hype, but I never switched. Firefox was always good enough for me. And really, Firefox overtook Chrome in performance a while ago already. And naturally Mozilla's manifesto is way better to support than Eric Schmidt's "you don't need privacy if you have nothing to hide" idea.

Firefox gets nearly $1mn/day from Google...they're using your browsing history to target new tab page ads to you...they're not a good choice if you care about privacy. They have, though, pressured Yahoo to do some good stuff -- they have zero leverage over google, in fact google has tons of leverage over them. Try the Epic Privacy Browser if you care about privacy!

Mozilla no longer gets $1mn/day from Google. The new default search engine is Yahoo for US users. https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2014/11/19/promoting-choice-an...

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

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Post by thetinguy »

grandalf wrote: post #204
FilterJoe wrote: post #177

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The problem is using many open tabs with Chrome. If you use no more than 3 or 4 tabs, Chrome is generally fine. If you use more than that, Firefox has some built-in features to help with tabs such as delayed tab loading and tab grouping. It also has more and better extensions for helping with multiple tabs. Furthermore, it doesn't launch a new process for each tab. In a browser comparison I wrote last month, I includ…

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

probably not. few macs will run 32GB even if it offers user replaceable ram.

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

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Post by e15ctr0n »

joshstrange wrote: post #74
theVirginian wrote: post #68

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I heard a rumor a while back that Firefox was developing a browser targeted at web developers. Not sure if thats unnecessary or what but if it materializes I'll probably give it a try.

Yeah, I remember getting excited when I read about that. I'll give it a shot when it comes out but there are a number of little things that annoy me with FF web dev tools that I doubt they will fix. Also I really need to dev on the SAME browser the product will be released on and not some special dev build. Edit: Oh now I remember why I wrote off: > Firefox Developer Edition replaces the Aurora channel in the Firefox…

The Developer Edition packs a ton of features. https://hacks.mozilla.org/2014/11/mozilla-introduces-the-fir...

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

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Post by dude3 »

translate3d and CSS3 animations just run much faster on chrome. Javascript is also faster on chrome. That's why I use chrome. Newer versions of firefox are getting better tho. The debugger on firefox is sub par compared to the on chrome for complex applications.

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

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Post by thetinguy »

corndoge wrote: post #382
terminado wrote: post #292

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You absolutely must link your Google Chrome install to your Google ID on Windows or you will lose data. Oh man... Settings and bookmarks are not "data" in any substantial sense. Incognito mode at all times, no Google ID ever, trash local history on every exit. I don't carry the expectation that my bookmarks must live on and follow me from machine to machine. I don't care about what my search preferences are. I simply…

Judging by your comment, I bet you're also fed up with the web being overloaded and scripted to hell to build enterprise applications on top of a system that was only designed to deliver plain readable text with links to other plain readable text. Me too. I think web applications should never have existed. The web was designed for hypertext, images, and other static consumable content. It wasn't designed to be a plat…

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