Migrated to Firefox on my work PC after Chrome removed protocol display in URL bar and all flags to revert this change - that was the last straw.
Switching from Chrome to Firefox
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Re: Switching from Chrome to Firefox
#152Earlier quoted context omitted.
Firefox for android supports addons, though, so can be customized to do anything. I can't believe people use Chrome om Android when you can have Fx with ad blocking! For your problem, I use an addon called "simple gesture" that allows me to add all kinds of gestures/actions.
Assuming it's https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/android/addon/simple-gestur... : any ideas why does it need to "access my data for all websites" and "access the clipboard"? Curiously the blurb recommends "Quick Gestures" which presumably is a different gesture addon.
- access data: probably because the gesture is actually done inside the page you're viewing, so it has to be able to capture that
- clipboard: it was a feature requested, for gestures to be able to work with the clip board: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/android/addon/simple-gestur...
So just recently added for that reason
Re: Switching from Chrome to Firefox
#153Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think you're misleading in quoting a two-year old blog, then closing off with "ooops", implying that Mozilla was caught in a privacy-related oops. When in fact, Mozilla was super duper clear in the blog about the privacy implications of this experiment. And in the past two years, they have been focusing more and more on the privacy angle. At the moment, both Safari and Mozilla look to me to be leading in privacy.
Being super duper clear about having sent the full URL history of users to a third party doesn't excuse you from the fact that you, well, sent the full URL history of users to a third party. And unless the entire leadership of the Mozilla Corporation has been replaced since then (a wet dream of mine) that blog entry is relevant, since they've done it and they could do it again.
Are you saying that nothing could ever excuse that fact?
Cliqz is building a European, independent privacy-oriented search engine. This seems a worthy reason to me, especially with the complete and total transparency here. And in any case, the experiment has ended.
I still maintain your comments are misleading, by leaving out the context.
Re: Switching from Chrome to Firefox
#154Earlier quoted context omitted.
Containers in Fx makes this super-easy, try it out.
They do not allow for complete separation of "work" and "personal" internet. They literally show both in the same window.
I consider that a feature. Nothing stops you from only using a single and different container per window, though.
Re: Switching from Chrome to Firefox
#155For 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...
Is it possible to have a different vpn for each container?
Re: Switching from Chrome to Firefox
#156I switched from Chrome to Firefox on my old Macbook pro and overall it really feels faster and more responsive.
Ah, I've been using firefox for web dev stuff on my old Macbook pro and I've noticed it's a lot faster than it was last year.
Definitely considering making the plunge as speed has been the only thing that's held me back from switching to FF.
Re: Switching from Chrome to Firefox
#157Firefox 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.
It hasn't asked me to, as you say, automatically use Cloudflare's DoH service. The default seems to have DoH disabled.
It's not rolled out everywhere yet. AFAIK they only activate it for US users, and it may only be activated for a subset of those (not sure about that part).
Re: Switching from Chrome to Firefox
#158Earlier quoted context omitted.
Or maybe don't... I relied too much on it, and lost quite some data. Too bad it had no sync capabilities, or even basic import/export for backing up.
Can you explain? It’s a puzzling comment about containers
I've had problems where it loses my settings after update. They also don't sync between devices, making them quite cumbersome for me to use (you can copy the settings manually though).
When it's all setup it works great though.
Re: Switching from Chrome to Firefox
#159Earlier quoted context omitted.
Being super duper clear about having sent the full URL history of users to a third party doesn't excuse you from the fact that you, well, sent the full URL history of users to a third party. And unless the entire leadership of the Mozilla Corporation has been replaced since then (a wet dream of mine) that blog entry is relevant, since they've done it and they could do it again.
Are you saying that nothing could ever excuse that fact? Cliqz is building a European, independent privacy-oriented search engine. This seems a worthy reason to me, especially with the complete and total transparency here. And in any case, the experiment has ended. I still maintain your comments are misleading, by leaving out the context.
Setting aside whether Cliqz could be trusted or not, just think of it: this is a decision that went through lots of managers in the Mozilla Corporation, and nobody ever stopped to think for a moment "sending the entire URL history of our users to a third party? well this is wrong". This is the kind of decision that should've led to lots of resignations inside the company, but nothing happened. To me this means there's something deeply rotten inside Mozilla. What kind of assurance do I have that they won't pull this off again in the future? And let's remember that they are strapped for cash, so it's not like they don't have an incentive to sell private user data again.
Re: Switching from Chrome to Firefox
#160I switched to FF for my daily driver almost a year ago on my Windows machine and haven't looked back. Previously FF had too many performance issues but since each tab is run in a separate process, it's been just as good as Chrome (not so much on OSX however, I still use Chrome there). The other advantage of FF for me, besides Pocket, is that I can share and send pages with FF on Android which has support for ad-block…
FF got so much better on osx lately. Now it consumes as much battery as chrome for me.
Ah interesting, I may have to revisit in that case as it has been a while since I tried it on OSX.