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I like Firefox but I'm also a heavy tab user. Usually around 70-100 open with ~10-13GB RAM. Chrome is just better in that aspect, much better performance. Altho I use ungoogled-chromium not retail Chrome https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium
There was a time about 3 months ago when that wasnt the case, and it needed a restart every few days to keep performance.
For those new and old to Firefox, check out the new-ish privacy feature “multi-account containers” https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multi-account...
It's not perfect but it beats "private browsing" windows which I used before.
I remember that in order to get my passwords from Chrome to Firefox on macOS, I needed to install a virtual machine with Windows, and log in to Chrome and Firefox there.
One of the reason why I haven't switch from Chrome to Firefox again is Join still don't have a Firefox extension: https://joaoapps.com/join/firefox/ Another reason is I had switched to Firefox just after Firefox Quantum came out, and eventually switched back to Chrome because it didn't give me a good experience at that time. (buggy devtool, many unfamiliarity)
For those new and old to Firefox, check out the new-ish privacy feature “multi-account containers” https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multi-account...
For stuff that I want sessions to survive, I open them in specific multi-account containers.
[0] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/temporary-con...
Firefox is great but not so great is asking users to automatically use Cloudflair's DoH service. Let me pick which DoH I want to use.
[1] https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20190911113856
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I wish Pocket didn't come enabled by default. It's intrusive spyware. Edit: It's information leaks for advertisements. I switched from Chrome to Firefox to get away from advertisement empires. Having to manually disable Pocket to do that leaves a sour note.
Pocket is owned by Mozilla, so if Pocket is spyware, Mozilla is making spyware. Does not sound right.
https://blog.mozilla.org/press-uk/2017/10/06/testing-cliqz-i...
"Users who receive a version of Firefox with Cliqz will have their browsing activity sent to Cliqz servers, including the URLs of pages they visit"
Ooops.
Time for the weekly Chrome bash thread on HN. Cue the "I also switched to ddg and it's great!" Seriously, why does this happen so much here? I'm not even talking about the merits of the argument (I switched to Firefox), I'm just talking about how much of an echo chamber this is.
This is what's happening here - a bunch of people that constantly grind their same old axe and upvote same old content while downvoting you :) Because you don't hate the evil of the month enough.