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Reasons to ditch Chrome and use Firefox

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Re: Reasons to ditch Chrome and use Firefox

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Post by zelphirkalt »

haunter wrote: post #21

>Automatic blocking of autoplay videos And then this very site has an automatic playing video in the article lmao Also a lot of these claims are so-so imo. "Lighter on system resources" "Speedier website browsing" I usually have 60-70 tabs open across 5-6 windows. Firefox absolutely shits itself all the time but Chromium doesn't. Anyways I use ungoogled-chromium https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium

yawn I am a declared tab horder, with 500+ tabs open and Firefox shows no sign of any slowdown. Try that with Chromium derivates. In my experience Firefox outclasses Chromium based browsers for such a workload.

Re: Reasons to ditch Chrome and use Firefox

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Post by prox »

swfsql wrote: post #57
formerly_proven wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I usually have 60-70 tabs open across 5-6 windows. Firefox absolutely shits itself all the time but Chromium doesn't. Last time I checked I had a few thousand tabs open with Firefox and it doesn't do anything except use memory.

I use an extension called autoTabDiscard (or something close) that unloads webpages that I didn't access the last 10 minutes, or that doesn't load any tab on startup, but the tabs keep existing in both cases. Then you can setup exceptions as well. That's an essential for me.

But why open so many tabs when you can just search history or bookmark (in FF you can also tag by double clicking the star icon)

Usually I find everything I needed by time, data, keyword, tag, or bookmark in a few seconds at most by opening history or bookmark by keyboard shortcut.

Re: Reasons to ditch Chrome and use Firefox

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Post by kevincox »

Comevius wrote: post #55

I have been using Firefox since 1.5 or so, and will keep using it because I value customizability. I keep Chromium around for web development, but it has a lot of issues with Wayland (not to be confused with XWayland) currently.

Although with the removal of old extensions Firefox has lost most of its customizability. I really wish they kept those around. Even if they came with scary warnings and would break frequently because only a few APIs were kept stable.

Re: Reasons to ditch Chrome and use Firefox

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Post by commoner »

zelphirkalt wrote: post #78
dools wrote: post #61

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The ability to have separate sessions was actually the reason I switched to chrome many years ago, looks like it’s time to give Firefox another look

Although Firefox had profiles for ages and you could start Firefox with the profile manager and "new instance allowed" to choose a profile at the start of each new instance. More hidden then in Chromium, but definitely possible. EDIT: Just for completeness sake, here is the command to open Firefox with profile manager and new instances: firefox --new-instance --ProfileManager %u

The Firefox Profile Switcher add-on provides an easy-to-use interface that looks just like Chrome's:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/profile-switc...

You'll need to install a connector for it to work. (The add-on gives instructions during the onboarding process.) Both the add-on and the connector are free and open source (GPLv3).

I use profiles and containers together on Firefox. Each profile has its own set of add-ons, browser settings, and containers. Containers in the same profile share the same add-ons and browser settings. For example, you could have separate personal and work profiles, with containers for different online accounts in each profile.

On Firefox, you have the option of using only profiles, only containers, both profiles and containers, or none of the above.

Re: Reasons to ditch Chrome and use Firefox

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Post by zelphirkalt »

barbs wrote: post #27
formerly_proven wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I usually have 60-70 tabs open across 5-6 windows. Firefox absolutely shits itself all the time but Chromium doesn't. Last time I checked I had a few thousand tabs open with Firefox and it doesn't do anything except use memory.

A few thousand tabs?!?! Come on mate!

And why not? Since it works so well on Firefox, it seems like a valid thing to do. You can quickly jump to any opened tab using the % thing in the URL or, if you have tagged bookmarks open, you can search by tag. Basically opened tabs are like a huge brain cache layer of things you want to look at.

Re: Reasons to ditch Chrome and use Firefox

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Post by XorNot »

I've been using Firefox on all my devices for years now, and I am never stopping. Google sells you ads: Chrome is how Google shows you ads and gets your data.

If you believe in a privacy respecting, open web where users own their own devices then you have choices other then Firefox - but nobody should be using Chrome.

Re: Reasons to ditch Chrome and use Firefox

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Post by detritus »

andinus wrote: post #97
detritus wrote: post #66

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm a big fan of multi-account containers.. or at least, was. Recently I inadvertantly added a domain to one of the ascribed containers on my laptop and I'll be damned if I can work out how to undo it, other than uninstalling and starting over, which'll be a pain, because I've customised it quite a bit. ...This is a plea for help, by the way, in case it wasn't obvious :) I'm sure there must be a json file or somethin…

Multi-Accounts Container Version: 8.0.7 You can click on "Manage Containers", choose a container and then remove the site with "Manage Site List".

Oh Gosh, I feel so stupid - that's exactly what I was looking for.. please tell me they just added that this morning? I know they didn't..!

Re: Reasons to ditch Chrome and use Firefox

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Post by moffkalast »

TekMol wrote: post #67
sph wrote: post #30

I honestly want to ditch Firefox and try a Chromium browser for a minute [1], but I'm stuck on Firefox because it's the only one with a killer feature: send a tab to/from iOS and my Linux desktop. I skip Chrome and Edge for privacy reasons, Brave have a crappy and buggy sync feature that I don't know what OSes it supports, but not my combination. Can't send tabs with them. Vivaldi doesn't have an iOS port. Impossible…

finding a cool article while I'm sitting on the couch and sending it to my desktop so I can read it later Isn't that just a link? I solve this by having a list of links on the web that I can access from everywhere.

Or you know, just drag the url to the desktop.

I'm more concerned with Firefox's lack of per-tab screenshare in meet/jitsi/etc.

Re: Reasons to ditch Chrome and use Firefox

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Post by bachmeier »

I've used Firefox as my main browser since it was called Phoenix. Never had a reason to change. When I have to use Chrome (as right now on this Chromebook) I'm not a fan because of the lack of a built-in reader view button. That's a critical part of my web usage due to the small fonts used on many sites. The extensions providing this functionality for Chrome just aren't as good IMO.

There is a recent development that might get me to switch to Chrome after this long. Chrome-based browsers will give apps access to the local filesystem. The Firefox team has said you can't do that safely because users don't understand the concept of a file. Using Chrome, I can for instance go to the Logseq website, click the button to give access to that directory, and start writing. No signing in, no need to store my data in the cloud. It's so nice to be able to avoid the cloud - but only using Chrome.

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