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Re: Reasons to ditch Chrome and use Firefox

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Post by 323 »

kristiandupont wrote: post #64
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…

> I'm starting to see broken sites What are some examples of this? I keep seeing this complaint and I keep asking for examples but I always get "just various sites"-like answers. FF is my primary browser and I am not seeing it. I am genuinely curious as to whether it is starting to fall behind but I can recall maybe two or three instances the past couple of years where I opened a site in Brave to see if it worked the…

Firefox is my main browser for many years now, but there are two categories of sites that I only open in Chrome:

Video heavy sites, especially YouTube. It loads extremely slowly compared to Chrome. And has much more video stuttering. Probably Google is sabotaging YouTube in Firefox.

Complex interactive sites, like crypto exchanges. They are slow and with many rendering artefacts in Firefox. Probably because they don't even bother testing in Firefox.

Re: Reasons to ditch Chrome and use Firefox

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Post by sph »

jacooper wrote: post #85
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…

You can already do this on brave, with brave sync enabled.

No you can't. I have sync enabled everywhere, and there's no send tab option anywhere on iOS. Either that or I'm blind.

Re: Reasons to ditch Chrome and use Firefox

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Post by sph »

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.

It's that curlftpfs Dropbox comment again.

It takes 20x as much time and work to copy a link, context switch to another app, paste, then, when you're on the desktop, _remember_ to check that shared document, and open the link, than to just press option menu, send tab, choose linux desktop and bam!, it's there as soon as you open your browser the next day.

Re: Reasons to ditch Chrome and use Firefox

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Post by commoner »

stragies wrote: post #98
commoner wrote: post #86

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The Firefox Sync Storage source code, licensed under MPL-2.0 and fully documented, is right here: https://github.com/mozilla-services/syncstorage-rs It includes a Docker Compose setup. Standard directory servers aren't specifically built for end-to-end encryption, while data in Firefox Sync is end-to-end encrypted by default. Firefox Sync must also scale to support the millions of Firefox users who use Mozilla's inst…

Hi, thanks for replying with information. You seem to more than me about the current situation, i'm happy to learn more. So the above (synstorage-rs_in_container) is now the only required software needed, and now includes the identity-server portion? I would really like to use the "beam-a-tab-to-some-other-firefox", been a FF user since before it got that name. But i wanted to self-host all parts, and then found some…

I don't think Mozilla has a recent write-up (blog post) about the Sync Server. The most recent one I found is an announcement from 2020, which explains some of Mozilla's motivations:

https://blog.mozilla.org/services/2020/09/15/the-future-of-s...

But, as you mentioned, the current documentation is here:

https://mozilla-services.readthedocs.io/en/latest/howtos/run...

You might also find the unofficial Arch User Repository package, comments, and PKGBUILD file helpful:

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/firefox-syncstorage-git

I hope it works out for you!

Re: Reasons to ditch Chrome and use Firefox

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Post by butz »

Ability to customize browser UI should not be overlooked either, especially in the day when application rarely allow user to rearrange controls in toolbar. And if you want to go deeper there still is "userChrome.css" file, where you can change how Firefox UI looks by editing simple CSS file.

Re: Reasons to ditch Chrome and use Firefox

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Post by ChuckNorris89 »

prox wrote: post #91
dools wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

I hope you become a full time user, lets curb the direction Google wants to go in.

Even if the entire HN community would switch to Firefox, it would still be a drop in the ocean to curbing Chrome's market share.

Also Firefox hasn't been doing itself any favors by alienating both the average Joe consumers and the professional devs over the years.

Re: Reasons to ditch Chrome and use Firefox

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Post by stavros »

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…

Vivaldi is another browser I kind of like, made by the former CTO of Opera.

Re: Reasons to ditch Chrome and use Firefox

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Post by bambax »

I switched to Firefox a little over two years ago because of the whole Manifest V3 snafu (and wild and unfounded invocations of "security" to justify it), and never looked back. It works perfectly well for everything -- and I couldn't live without reader mode.

(TBH, I still use Chrome for developing, as I find the dev tools on Chrome easier to use than on FF, and much better looking. But I could also let go of that if needed be.)

Re: Reasons to ditch Chrome and use Firefox

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Post by guerrilla »

ChuckNorris89 wrote: post #117
prox wrote: post #91

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I hope you become a full time user, lets curb the direction Google wants to go in.

Even if the entire HN community would switch to Firefox, it would still be a drop in the ocean to curbing Chrome's market share. Also Firefox hasn't been doing itself any favors by alienating both the average Joe consumers and the professional devs over the years.

No it wouldn't, that's just pessimism. The entire HN community switching would have massive second-order effects. People would see experts (us) using it, we'd promote it and install it for people, we'd speak positively about it, we'd develop with it, etc. (I won't write the whole list.)
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