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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 therealmarv »

higherpurpose wrote: post #326
FilterJoe wrote: post #177

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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…

Actually my main problem with Firefox is that if it "chokes" on one tab, I can't use the whole browser until that fixes itself. In Chrome I generally have 20+ tabs open and I don't have any issues. Firefox needs to get itself a multi-process system. I really don't mind a little extra RAM being used as long as tabs are separated and sandboxed. I'm also looking forward to a complete rewrite in Rust. That should make Fi…

lol. You really think a new programming language will increase speed?! Rust is not faster as C++ for sure.

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

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Post by zer0defex »

barrkel wrote: post #227
gknoy wrote: post #197

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Why not just always open Incognito windows?

Bookmarks, extensions etc. are all missing in Incognito windows.

Yep, this is part of the reason why.

But mostly I see no benefits from having it enabled, but quite a few negatives (security, privacy, etc). As long as the browser keeps the history of your current browser session alive while the browser stays open, that's perfectly fine for me.

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

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Post by Steko »

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.

My solution to this was to use both. I use Chrome only for Gmail and Docs (drive, whatever...) and disabled the auto-updater. I use Firefox with DDG for everything else. Couldn't be happier.

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

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Post by joncalhoun »

StuieK wrote: post #477
edgarallenbro wrote: post #452

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Google's way of handling accounts is infuriating. I have multiple g-mail accounts. One of them is my primary personal one, and another one I use is a shared account that my band uses for business and soundcloud. Google makes it hellish to sign out of one and into the other. For the longest time, I had them linked, and my band mates could see my personal e-mail. I don't know if they could get past a log in point, but…

Create a chrome user for each google account. There is then a hotkey for quickly switching between users.

If you want to try multiple Chrome Users see https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/2364824?hl=en

You can change users by clicking the top right of a chrome window.

They may not be obvious to set up, but they are worth learning about if you are going to use stick with Chrome and use multiple Google accounts, or multiple accounts on any service - Twitter, FB, etc.

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

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Post by scholia »

benjaminpv wrote: post #348
jcoffland wrote: post #245

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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…

I find that over time I end up with a bunch of tabs whose content seems interesting that grow over time. My working set is off to one side while the 'to read' tabs stack up over to the left. I'd found a big boon for this workflow in the very simple extension "Export Tabs[1]." It's really simple: click an icon on the toolbar and it lists open tabs by title and then by URL. Now when I notice that I've got a real glut o…

In Firefox you can just put them into groups, so they stop being tabs. Later, you can open a whole group when you need it. It's much more organized...

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

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Post by jannes »

smsm42 wrote: post #385
FilterJoe wrote: post #177

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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 extension: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/the-great-suspende... helped me a lot keeping multiple tabs under control. I tend to leave tabs open for days, sometimes weeks, and come to them later. I don't want to waste memory all that time to just keep a tab open. So this extension helps with that.

I just released an extension that "suspends" tabs to the file system instead:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/tabattack/ginflokh...

It's able to save tabs and windows to the file system as Markdown and restore them from these files, too.

I would love to get feedback on it.

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

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Post by evjim »

When I got my windows 8.1 convertible I was disappointment that Firefox's scrolling is terrible with touch. IE metro is actually pretty awesome but I hate being fullscreened in something and I don't like. And that you can't install adblock or disconnect or tree tabs. But Chrome keeps crashing, so I think I will have to use firefox and just suffer with a mouse.

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

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Post by bsdetector »

username223 wrote: post #351
justcommenting wrote: post #95

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> 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.

> https://sites.google.com/a/chromium.org/dev/Home/chromium-se... Visiting a page on a creep's domain to find out about its creepiness seems like a bad idea.

A good point. They don't even mention connection reuse information leaks, for instance if any one URL sent to google analytics contains fingerprint information then all URLs sent over that same connection belong to you as well, as the network connection is kept open a long time and reused across all domains. I wonder if they are aware of the problem or just didn't mention it.

Now that Google has pushed HTTP/2 on everybody, connection reuse will be a major new fingerprinting and tracking technique because it keeps connections open a long time and essentially can't be proxied so one connection is always one browser.

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