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Re: Switching from Chrome to Firefox

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Post by hydgu »

andrepd wrote: post #15
_tkzm wrote: post #5

the custom search engines and the banning of dissenter extension is why i am still on chrome. ff failed me on technical and personal level with these. at least with chrome/google ... the devil you know.

Your answer to ff refusing to host an extension and forcing you to sideload it is to move to a platform that has continuous and proven censorship and surveillance track record? Doesn't make much sense to me.

Chrome has continuous and proven censorship? I think they are more or less on the same page than Firefox: they have their curated "app store" and they inconvenience you if you try to bypass it.

I would use Firefox if they actually were more open and free than Chrome. But if they are the same, just slower, then why would I want to support Mozilla?

Re: Switching from Chrome to Firefox

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Post by hrgiger »

zaphirplane wrote: post #70
hrgiger wrote: post #53

if someone has more details: I remember years ago that when I was digging FF source code I saw it was using chromium source code (not everywhere but for the CSS engine and extensions i think),that was the time servo was in consideration, is it still the case? I personally dont mind that I use both chromium + FF with some firewall rules but it always gave me impression that while FF using chromium source it does an ad…

Chrome is Mozilla terminology pre existing the chrome browser There is even https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1248747 to explain it in depth

Thanks for the link and light for my ignorance! it was interesting read, I didnt know that chrome was a term

Re: Switching from Chrome to Firefox

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Post by m0zg »

glandium wrote: post #22
m0zg wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It just doesn't have usable profile switching. Sounds like something a competent engineer should be able to implement in a week, yet users have been begging for it for a decade and it's still not there. This is the only thing that holds me on Chrome.

try about:profiles

See, that's exactly what I'm talking about. Whereas in Chrome I _don't have to_ "try about:profiles".

The very basic requirement for me is this: I want to completely separate my "work" internet from my "personal" internet, yet I also want to be able to easily switch between the two. Firefox makes this unnecessarily difficult and un-ergonomic.

Re: Switching from Chrome to Firefox

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Post by i2shar »

I switched to Firefox from Chrome a couple of months ago. The sole motivation was the fiasco that ensued after Google decided to mingle Chrome Sync login with accounts.google.com cookies - there is simply no way to sign in to Chrome Sync without creating browser cookies for the same account. I wanted the benefit of saving and syncing bookmarks and extensions across my chrome installations, but I did not want to be tracked across the web with my logged in Google identity and the Chrome changes for "Identity consistency between browser and cookie jar" made it impossible. It was time to move on from Chrome.

And I have been very pleased with the new Firefox. Highly recommend it to everyone!

Re: Switching from Chrome to Firefox

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Post by anthk »

psv1 wrote: post #78

For people who are considering switching away from Chrome - give Brave a try, it's really good. I was a bit reluctant for a while because their branding is weird and there's too much focus on their crypto ad model. But if you switch the crypto stuff off, you have a fork of Chrome that performs just as well and also has a few additional privacy features and isn't linked to your Google account. Highly recommend.

Get Falkon, much better.

Re: Switching from Chrome to Firefox

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Post by rishav_sharan »

prox wrote: post #106
foepys wrote: post #72

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Counterpoint: A work colleague of mine has over 1000 tabs open at all times and his work machine only has 12GB of total RAM. Those 12 GB run Firefox, Visual Studio (!), and Windows and everything is working fine.

Is 1000 tabs open a replacement for bookmarks? I can’t imagine a workflow where having this many open would be advantageous.

sort of. I have 100-200 tabs in FF as well and i just use these open tabs like bookmarks.

Re: Switching from Chrome to Firefox

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Post by deepburner »

r_singh wrote: post #97

I use Safari full-time and am pretty happy with it. Pinned tabs, the keyboard shortcuts, developer options, ghostery extension, I find everything pretty neat. Anyone else here feel the same?

I would use it since it's the native browser but last I checked it didn't have any proper ad blockers due to apple shenanigans. I would consider swapping back if I could use ublock origin.

Re: Switching from Chrome to Firefox

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Post by mdibaiee »

foxfired wrote: post #71

Having multiple small tutorials like these will make it easy for anyone who wants to move to Firefox. The more the merrier. That said, I still can't get used to Firefox. It's fine on desktop, and using profiles is not too much of a big deal for me. But on mobile, Firefox is not as intuitive as chrome is to me. On my phone I have Chrome, which I only ever use if a website fails on all other browsers, I have Brave as m…

That's a good idea to propose to Mozilla for the new "Firefox Preview" which is a new version built from the ground up. They are open to innovations on that version and so far they already have made some experiments there.

You might want to try it out and leave this idea as a feedback on the app: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.mozilla.fe...

Re: Switching from Chrome to Firefox

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Post by _Microft »

zachwood wrote: post #87
LoSboccacc wrote: post #36

I'm using Firefox as primary browser since Chrome war on as blockers and it works fine for the most part but it's quite rough around the edges my biggest grows come from the omnibar, it still has a heck of a trouble guessing what's a search and what's a domain, the sorting out partial matches feels weird because bookmarks aren't prominent and there's no promotion of URLs entered Vs useless navigated toward and three…

Instead of hitting `ctrl+l` hit `ctrl+k` (or cmd) and you get a naked search directly to your default search engine.

Search keywords are super useful if one uses more than one search frequently. (I found tabbing to the correct engine in the search bar clumsy)

I have short (mostly two letters, very few with three) search commands for Google, Bing, Amazon, en/de translation search, Duden (german dictionary) Wikipedia in german and english and gaming wikis for example.

Re: Switching from Chrome to Firefox

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Post by KaiserPro »

philshem wrote: post #79
mendelmaleh wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Or maybe don't... I relied too much on it, and lost quite some data. Too bad it had no sync capabilities, or even basic import/export for backing up.

Can you explain? It’s a puzzling comment about containers

There was/is a button that allowed you to clear your default container's entire session. I almost clicked that.
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