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Re: Switch from Chrome to Firefox

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Post by ryanmercer »

intothev01d wrote: post #20

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 switched a couple of months ago because Chrome is just a bloated piece of garbage

I switched to Chrome a few years ago (and even to a Chromebox as my daily driver, on my second now because I wanted Android app support) because Firefox was a bloated piece of garbage, if I left 5-10 tabs open for a few weeks in Windows they'd be using several gigabytes of memory from a leak, memory use growing hourly.

Edit: I don't know why I'm being downvoted, this is even on Mozilla's own site showing it hasn't been fixed:

"Firefox's memory usage may increase if it's left open for long periods of time. A workaround for this is to periodically restart Firefox"

With an alternate solution being:

"Add RAM to your computer" ... "RAM is cheap"

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-uses-too-much-m...

I have not had this issue at all with Chrome in Windows 7, Windows 10 or ChromeOS.

Re: Switch from Chrome to Firefox

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Post by tracker1 »

jlarocco wrote: post #33
sneak wrote: post #18

Why is leaving the only recourse? Chromium is free software. Forking always remains an option.

That's true, but I personally don't have the time to create, or even work on, a Chromium fork. Is there one with any momentum? My preference would be to use https://github.com/atlas-engineer/next , because I'm a huge Common Lisp fan, but without uMatrix and uBlock Origin (or something equivalent) it's not a viable alternative yet. I've been trying to switch to Firefox lately. I still prefer Chromium's UI, but I won't…

The most popular Chrome forks are Edge (new), Opera and Brave... My hope is that they will keep the interfaces Google is phasing out.

Re: Switch from Chrome to Firefox

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Post by dTal »

fencepost wrote: post #104
djsumdog wrote: post #43

Firefox is back where it was back in like 2005, but instead of fighting IE/Microsoft, it's fighting Chrome/Google. Although now it has a bit more of a checkered record than it once did. Everything old is new again. I really wish Microsoft would open source the Edge/Titan engine. There can't possibly be any NSCA code in there they don't own the rights too anymore.

I really wish that if Microsoft was going to abandon having their own engine that they'd gone to Mozilla instead.

No thanks. Keep Embrace, Extend, Extinguish away from my user agent.

Re: Switch from Chrome to Firefox

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Post by Hamuko »

pwinnski wrote: post #119
Hamuko wrote: post #101

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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."

There are favicons. And Firefox does nothing to alleviate the problem, since it too only shows favicons. It just makes switching tabs more painful.

Re: Switch from Chrome to Firefox

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Post by chrisjc »

intothev01d wrote: post #20

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

Same, but I was hesitant to switch. All I heard were comments like yours about containers and such. Finally after hearing about it so much, combined with all the talk about Quantum making things faster I gave FF a go. Haven't looked back.

I still use Chrome for some tasks such as watching/listening to Youtube. (edit: not bc of performance, but bc I hate OSXs Cmd-Tab ordering)

Re: Switch from Chrome to Firefox

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Post by penguin_booze »

spiznnx wrote: post #95
AlwaysRock wrote: post #80

My issue is extensions. Firefox will never have all the extensions I use on Chrome. I want to switch. I use firefox on my mobile. But I cant do it on my desktops.

Firefox supports nearly the same web-extensions API as Chrome. Often porting to firefox means a couple of tweaks are necessary on the part of the author, but try https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/chrome-store-... and see if maybe the extension you want is already usable.

From a developer perspective, I'd say bit modern as well. For example, FF extension APIs use Promises, which are relatively pleasant to deal with than callbacks that Chrome uses.

Re: Switch from Chrome to Firefox

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Post by cremp »

Has anyone actually Wireshark'ed a machine with just Chrome running?

I ask because I keep reading about how Google is bad because of their business, but I haven't seen an actual pcap, or any reporting for that matter, on what Google actually sends back home.

If you have, or know of a place that has done that, I'd be interested to read about it.

Until then, Chrome, and Firefox are just more tools in my arsenal; and people trying to get me to ditch one, just because they dont like it, is just outright dumb.

Re: Switch from Chrome to Firefox

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Post by lotsofpulp »

icebraining wrote: post #116
mastrsushi wrote: post #27

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…

Apparently there's a way around the macOS limit:

https://backstage.1blocker.com/say-hello-to-1blocker-x-8b55e...

Re: Switch from Chrome to Firefox

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Post by ajnin »

Hamuko wrote: post #17

Too bad it takes a lot more than "a few minutes" to get used to Firefox and all of its quirks. Like the fact that I can have like 20 tabs open at the same time before they start hiding themselves from me.

Firefox has the Tree Style Tabs add-on, makes having many open tabs much more manageable.
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