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In 2024, please switch to Firefox

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Re: In 2024, please switch to Firefox

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Post by SamuelAdams »

bloopernova wrote: post #67

From yesterday's Firefox thread: Firefox has multiple compelling reasons to use it: Sync[1] only what you allow, bookmarks/history/extensions/etc Containers keep sites separated nicely[2] Tree Style Tabs[3] uBlock Origin on Android[4] Open Source since 1998! Not based on Chromium [1] Be wary of sync on a fresh Linux install, it might sync the default bookmarks and merge them with your own. Not a huge deal but definit…

About 2:

If you work with multiple AWS accounts, there is a web extension that automatically places each new account in its own firefox account container.

As far as I know, chrome has profiles, but I am not aware of any automated way to assign new profiles.

[1]: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/aws-sso-conta...

Re: In 2024, please switch to Firefox

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Post by cwillu »

thejosh wrote: post #31

I switched to Firefox earlier this year, having used Chrome since 2008/2009, previously having used Firefox. Mostly out of laziness. Can't believe how good Firefox is now, and how great it is on Android (addons, config). Being able to control anything on the browser is fantastic. Want to increase a certain UI elements font size just a tad? Sure! Want to tweak every aspect of the UI? sure! Want a myriad of config opti…

Unless you're on mobile, in which case you'd find it to confusing, so they removed the option, unless you're on nightly, with all the issues that entails.

Re: In 2024, please switch to Firefox

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Post by noman-land »

nashashmi wrote: post #61

Firefox needs bookmarkable containers. It is almost there ... Bookmarkable Containers are opening bookmarks in a specific container. And I don't like the hacked extension that implements this feature as a workaround using container sites.

Can't you do this by telling a container to auto open certain URLs?

Re: In 2024, please switch to Firefox

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Post by k310 »

Just want to add:

Despite its limited number of extensions, Safari has a great "reader" mode that other browsers with readability extensions can't come close to, in terms of zapping the crap, killing almost all nags and popups (sometimes, that's all you need to get past a nag-wall) and creating truly readable articles, savable as PDF.

I also use Firefox and Opera, which are fine, and which have their own universes of extensions. Opera is chrome-compatible in this respect. Both have versions of ublock-origin.

Re: In 2024, please switch to Firefox

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Post by HarHarVeryFunny »

I do use Firefox as my default browser (Linux).

My only complaint is that from time to time they see the need to change the user interface and break compatibility with whatever CSS hacks you've had to use to get it the way you like (e.g. tab position).

I wish they'd make UI layout/customization config-driven rather than relying on CSS, and commit to backwards compatibility of any such config.

Re: In 2024, please switch to Firefox

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Post by born-jre »

Me, Very hardcore Firefox user for years, today looking at switching to arc browser becasue firefox is thrashing my system. one time. macos swap inscreased to 60gb where firefox was using 48gb. i have 16gb ram. :( also video freezes time to time )

it is probably one of my own about:config changes Though than firefox.

Re: In 2024, please switch to Firefox

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Post by keymasta »

bryanlarsen wrote: post #30
jamiek88 wrote: post #12

We all switched to Firefox back in the day because it was better. Better than IE, there was no chrome and safari was a joke. Entreaties and ‘trying to make Fetch (firefox) happen’ won’t work, evidently. How do we make Firefox obviously better ? I’m core market for Firefox and just use Safari. Better battery life. And it’s just as good for privacy. At least that’s my impression. Is it wrong? If I don’t use it there’s…

Firefox + uBlock origin is far better than any other browser without UBO.

I've been using Firefox for about as long as I can remember, and really don't notice sites not working. I do notice, however, that using any browser without UBO makes my eyes bleed in an unending agony of capitalist garbage. It's like using a browser and then putting sand in your eyeballs.

Re: In 2024, please switch to Firefox

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Post by takeda »

layer8 wrote: post #122
matthew-wegner wrote: post #110

Earlier quoted context omitted.

On [5]: It's not that Mozilla named their UI "Chrome", but that "chrome" is a graphical user interface word. For a browser it refers to the stuff around the web page content, but it's more general than browser use (you could refer to Blender's chrome around the 3D viewports to refer to its toolbars, etc). i.e. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Glossary/Chrome

I still hate Google for naming their browser Chrome for that reason. They made a perfectly good and useful UI term almost unusable. Ironically, the modern web also led to UI chrome being harder and harder to distinguish even in native applications.

Feels a bit Microsoft'y like for example "Word".
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