Mozilla is a political organization. No thanks.
I’ll stick to safari, chrome, and brave. I’ll drop chrome if it ever removes v2 extensions.
In 2024, please switch to Firefox
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Re: In 2024, please switch to Firefox
#112Recommend doing this on mobile as well, if you are an android user. You get adblock and a URL bar near your keyboard.
The price is that occasionally there are sites (approximately 2% in my anecdotal experience) that you'll have to use chrome for.
Re: In 2024, please switch to Firefox
#113I would like to, but Firefox behaves problematic in regard to auth urls like https://name:password@news.ycombinator.com 1: When you bookmark them, it shows the auth part when you hover the bookmark with the mouse. 2: When you open them from the command line firefox https://name:password@news.ycombinator.com And then ctrl+click links on the site, it opens the new tab and shows the auth part in the tab title as long as…
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#114The microsecond manifest v3 is forced upon me, I will switch. And I'll be bringing my entire family tree and friends along with me! What does everyone think about LibreWolf vs mainline FF? It reminds me of Waterfox: https://librewolf.net
Why wait until the final nail has been hammered before escaping your coffin?
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#115Firefox has been my main browser for a long time but I've also been a mutlibrowser user for a long time. Right now I'm typing this in firefox, chrome is in my second monitor running twitch, and I will be using edge for my work.
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#116Earlier quoted context omitted.
The only site I've found behaves terribly in Firefox is LinkedIn. Weird pauses on page load that lock the whole browser (not just the tab) for like 5-10 seconds. No idea what they're doing to make this happen, but it's odd. Which is, well, fine, because LinkedIn is mostly a dumpster anyways.
Any site that is on the edge of performance (often due to bad engineering, which you can blame on time constraints) will perform vastly better in Chromium.
I don't much care, TBH. Having worked in the Chromium codebase before, I know what an absolutely mammoth amount of engineering hours goes into that.
V8 on its own is a technological miracle.
But all funded by a firehose of crazy privacy invading ad revenue.
So. I'll live with the odd pause and a bit of battery drain. I gave Google 10 years of my life as an employee in exchange for $$, I'm not interested in giving them the rest of my life for free.
Re: In 2024, please switch to Firefox
#117Surprised nobody mentions this: Firefox DevTools are so, so much better than Chrome's, especially shining in two areas: (a) inspecting layouts with flex/grid; (b) inspecting websocket traffic.
Been using FF for 10+ years, never looked back.
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#118There is no support for touch screen navigation gestures in Firefox on Windows and that is the #1 reason why I cannot switch. I use the touchscreen on laptop while browsing every day. Touch screens on windows isn't something new. They became common around the time of the release of Windows 8 in 2012. There is a 6 year old feature request on bugzilla. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1443710
+1: They've been ignoring this one for years.
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#119>1. Privacy Firefox is the only major browser not built by a company that makes money from advertising and/or selling your personal data. Mozilla tracks and gives (sells?) unique information about every download to Google unless you choose to grab it from the FTP servers. https://www.ghacks.net/2022/03/17/each-firefox-download-has-...
Can you explain the process by which Mozilla gives the unique identifier to Google?
The article quotes Mozilla saying they can correlate the two, but it doesn't state how.
Re: In 2024, please switch to Firefox
#120I use Firefox exclusively, and I love the Rust language that took shape at Mozilla, but it makes me sad to see HN censor comments that point out Mozilla's despicable behavior when they fired Brandon Eich because he didn't espouse gay marriage.
He actively gave to organizations that were formed to restrict freedom.
And the LBGTQ community, we're not going to sit and be quiet about those sorts of things.