Reasons to ditch Chrome and use Firefox • Hacker News Board

Re: Reasons to ditch Chrome and use Firefox

#11

Post by Heckopi » Sat, May 28, 2022, 9:12 AM UTC

Where's opera at

Re: Reasons to ditch Chrome and use Firefox

#12

Post by b112 » Sat, May 28, 2022, 9:14 AM UTC

Heckopi wrote: post #11

Where's opera at

In China?

Re: Reasons to ditch Chrome and use Firefox

#13

Post by aspaviento » Sat, May 28, 2022, 9:15 AM UTC

I wonder why there are sites in which the reader mode is not even available. I can't think of any right now but it happens with relative frequency to be annoying.

Re: Reasons to ditch Chrome and use Firefox

#14

Post by b112 » Sat, May 28, 2022, 9:16 AM UTC

below43 wrote: post #7

I find Edge is a nice alternative

I tried Edge on mobile. Before, I had thought chrome, and to a lesser extend firefox, phoned home a lot.

But oh boy, does edge on android phone home. You'd think a phone home party was going on, as the tcpdump flies off your screen...

No thanks.

Re: Reasons to ditch Chrome and use Firefox

#15

Post by Synaesthesia » Sat, May 28, 2022, 9:16 AM UTC

amanzi wrote: post #10

I'm still using Firefox as my primary browser on desktop and mobile. I have minor complaints, but nothing to make me consider switching to something else.

It's really nice on Android to have extensions like YouTube background player and uBlock origin.

Re: Reasons to ditch Chrome and use Firefox

#16

Post by Heckopi » Sat, May 28, 2022, 9:17 AM UTC

b112 wrote: post #12

Heckopi wrote: post #11

Where's opera at

In China?

I thought most use opera leo since Mozilla is heavy and buggy as frak

Re: Reasons to ditch Chrome and use Firefox

#17

Post by anotherhue » Sat, May 28, 2022, 9:19 AM UTC

Firefox: Yes. Mozilla: No

Re: Reasons to ditch Chrome and use Firefox

#18

Post by d3nj4l » Sat, May 28, 2022, 9:20 AM UTC

aspaviento wrote: post #13

I wonder why there are sites in which the reader mode is not even available. I can't think of any right now but it happens with relative frequency to be annoying.

Because Reader Mode is using heuristics to fetch the content of the article, and that can fail if the article is weirdly formatted in HTML. You can read more about this on the repo for Mozilla's Readability, which is what Firefox uses under the hood: https://github.com/mozilla/readability

Re: Reasons to ditch Chrome and use Firefox

#19

Post by impetus1 » Sat, May 28, 2022, 9:23 AM UTC

I have this nice toolbar I made which customizes firefox. I would also suggest reviewing security on firefox.

https://gitlab.com/coolcoder/fractal-toolbar/-/tree/fractal

Re: Reasons to ditch Chrome and use Firefox

#20

Post by pelagicAustral » Sat, May 28, 2022, 9:23 AM UTC

Been using FF for about a year now. Absolutely no complains. Before that I used Chrome for many years and really there is nothing I used to do con Chrome that I cannot do on FF.

I did not change because of privacy concerns or whatever, I just wanted to try something else, and FF has been quite alright.