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Re: Switch from Chrome to Firefox

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I switched a couple of months ago because Chrome is just a bloated piece of garbage. One of my favorite features in Firefox is containers, which I used to have different users for in Chrome. Maybe Chrome has something similar now but it's one of the things I liked when I switched over. Haven't had any issues so far, glad I did

I don't understand how it's better than multiple profiles. I use multiple accounts for the same services (Asana, AWS, email, etc.) how can I manage that with containers?

Re: Switch from Chrome to Firefox

#112

I hope so because almost every bug I run into during webdev is Chrome, and usually I'm told it's intended behavior or a WONTFIX. With the way Google tries to strongarm standards and at the same time defy them, it's the modern Internet Explorer and it's a PITA to develop for.

What the heck bugs are you running into that surface as a result of chrome being chrome? I’m no google fan but I find chrome to be far and away the most stable and enjoyable browser to debug with.

An example, a third party lib I used crashed because after an update Chrome changed an optional function parameter into a required one, I am referring to this function https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Element/req...

So in my case I go to work and get reports that X is no longer working, lucky for me in JS is easy to patch third party code and fix this issue but I could not find a ticket that explains why Chrome did this.

Re: Switch from Chrome to Firefox

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One that's particularly annoying to me a while ago was you cannot drag and drop elements from an iframe to another iframe from another domain. IIRC it was only an issue in Chrome.

To be fair, you can't blame them for disallowing things like that. Protection against cross-site scripting, I'm sure.

I just don't see a realistic attack vector with cross-origin drag-n-drop.

Re: Switch from Chrome to Firefox

#115

I tried to switch just now, looks like uMatrix doesn't work in Firefox? That's a blocker for me... I've spent a lot of time creating a ruleset on uMatrix, not looking to try recreating that.

There is an add-on called uMatrix for FF. I haven't tried it so I cn't tell you if it works or not. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/umatrix/

Sorry I was unclear, uMatrix still exists, and I used to use it on Firefox, but now I get a message:

uMatrix could not be verified for use in Firefox and has been disabled.

Re: Switch from Chrome to Firefox

#116

Can someone remind me what will happen to all the chromium derivatives that support ad block? Will Google restrict their functionality? If Firefox and Safari are the last browsers to support ad block, then they totally stand a chance.

Chrome didn't remove ad-block entirely, they deprecated an API that allows direct control; extensions now have to load filters into the browser itself, which will do the blocking.

Safari actually did the same recently[1], so it's not an alternative if you dislike this move by Chrome. The only difference seems to be the limit of rules (30k for Chrome vs 50k for Safari, whereas some lists used by uBO have over 75k).

[1] https://adguard.com/en/blog/legacy-safari-extensions.html

Re: Switch from Chrome to Firefox

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For Apple users (MacOS, iOS), I would suggest Safari over Firefox as FF is the most hacked browser and very unsafe. On the other hand, Safari syncs bookmarks, tabs on all your Apple devices very seamlessly.

I wouldn't call Firefox unsafe. But Safari's sync for bookmarks, passwords, tabs, handoff... is really the killer feature. I use Firefox as my "virgin" broswser for testing or when I need to manually override proxy settings for my own MitM purposes. But that's about it.

Firefox's sync is better, because it's not tied to the Apple ecosystem :P

Re: Switch from Chrome to Firefox

#118
I've been back to FF since Quantum release and like the new experience so far. Occasionally, I have to use Chrome since some of the internal websites at work don't work with Firefox. I always get those errors related to cross-site scripting issue like this:

"Cross-Origin Request Blocked: The Same Origin Policy disallows reading the remote resource at https://internal-xxxxxxx. (Reason: CORS header ‘Access-Control-Allow-Origin’ missing)."

Does anybody know what kind of knob I have to turn on/off in FF to make this disappear?

Re: Switch from Chrome to Firefox

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> But I can't see the tab's favicon or letters because they're 100% hidden from me. You can scroll on the tab bar.

What's wrong with a fixed tab bar? Like the one in Chrome?

As stated above, "In Chrome, you're eventually looking at triangles or lines with no way to differentiate them."

Re: Switch from Chrome to Firefox

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Please stop using AdBlock/AdBlockPlus. Use uBlock Origin instead.

How come? (I tend to use uMatrix.)

See:

https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBlock-issues/issues/338#iss...

> eyeo GmbH (owner of Adblock Plus) is a business partner of Google (through its "Acceptable Ads" business plan), and its business share some the same key characteristics as the Google's ones above:

> It gets revenues from the displaying of ads with those with which it has a contract (Google, Taboola, etc.)

> It expressly names uBlock Origin as a risk factor to its business

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