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Re: uBlock Origin works best on Firefox

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Post by jdfellow »

catlifeonmars wrote: post #132
ravenstine wrote: post #81

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I think Firefox's shortcomings are overstated. Often they're actually Mozilla's rather than Firefox's. There are other things I consider superior about Firefox that Chrome has yet to implement: - Multi-account containers is a killer feature IMO. I have different containers for banking, Facebook, a container for every email, a container for every Google/YouTube account, and so forth. - The option to enable canvas perm…

Privacy considerations aside, containers are great for using multiple AWS accounts simultaneously. Since we use an AWS account as a deployment container, it’s typical to have 10s of different accounts you have to jump between and it’s just not possible to effectively do ops with another browser.

This is honestly a killer feature! I use Temporary Containers and load the AWS console in a fresh container automatically, making it very easy to switch between accounts and have multiple open at once. (Caveat emptor: be sure which account you're using at any given time!)

Re: uBlock Origin works best on Firefox

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Post by jedberg »

jabroni_salad wrote: post #99
paulryanrogers wrote: post #87

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Strong agree on multi account containers. Keep in mind though if you disable them they drop all settings, unlike every other add-on ... ever. Bug is three years old but maybe we can push it over the top: https://github.com/mozilla/multi-account-containers/issues/1...

There is also no way to rearrange your containers aside from deleting them and making new ones in the desired order. Since I am using this for o365 administration it is a little annoying that I can't keep them in alphabetical order to find them easily.

Are you on the latest version? I can rearrange them on mine. If click on "manage containers" there is a gray on gray bar on the right. If you hover it, your cursor should change to an arrow to rearrange them.

Re: uBlock Origin works best on Firefox

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Post by FalconSensei »

shmerl wrote: post #41
sackofmugs wrote: post #6

This is honestly one of the first time I'm convinced in a technical sense to consider Firefox over Chrome. uBlock Origin feels as core to me to web browsing as Saved Passwords and Incognito Mode. That uBlock Origin can work better is like the browser itself being better.

Never really got the appeal of Chrome. Firefox worked very well for me for years.

For me:

- command+d will save a bookmark to the last folder used

- command-y will open the history in a new, full tab

- bookmark manager also open full by default

- Recently closed shows windows and tabs together without separating them

- I can actually see and edit a list of all search engines I have registered that use the tab to autocomplete. Firefox's keywords don't

Re: uBlock Origin works best on Firefox

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Post by sfink »

diroussel wrote: post #107
alpaca128 wrote: post #90

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Yes, Firefox is pretty much unbeatable in performance per tab. I just installed the tab counter addon and it reports that I currently have >1500 tabs open in Firefox. I know from experience that if I run just a tenth of that in Chromium the whole system will basically lock up. And as pretty much every other more conventional browser is based on Chromium nowadays there's no alternative really unless I get a RAM upgrad…

You can see the tab count without an addon. It's not pretty, but you can do it. Go to: about:telemetry#scalars-tab Then look at: browser.engagement.max_concurrent_tab_count

Ah, but if you use https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tab-stats/ then you can not only get the count, but also be able to mass-close large numbers of tabs (eg specific duplicate URLs, or everything for specific domains). A tab hoarder's best friend.

(Pretty clever to use telemetry for this, though.)

Re: uBlock Origin works best on Firefox

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jabroni_salad wrote: post #99
paulryanrogers wrote: post #87

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Strong agree on multi account containers. Keep in mind though if you disable them they drop all settings, unlike every other add-on ... ever. Bug is three years old but maybe we can push it over the top: https://github.com/mozilla/multi-account-containers/issues/1...

There is also no way to rearrange your containers aside from deleting them and making new ones in the desired order. Since I am using this for o365 administration it is a little annoying that I can't keep them in alphabetical order to find them easily.

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Re: uBlock Origin works best on Firefox

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Post by mminer237 »

bentcorner wrote: post #20
zaik wrote: post #4

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Firefox Mobile + uBlock works great for me.

It works pretty well but Edge/Chrome feel better than FF on mobile. Scrolling performance is probably the biggest difference. I've had issues with using FF as the default webview too.

You can always use Brave. Not quite as good as uBO, but it still blocks most ads while being Chromium-based.

Re: uBlock Origin works best on Firefox

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Post by jdubb »

ineptech wrote: post #148
voxic11 wrote: post #27

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Yeah, I want to point out that uBlock Origin is fully functional on mobile firefox which makes it by far the best browser on Android. Plus with firefox you can do fun things like disable the Wake Lock API on youtube so that you can listen to audiobooks or music with the screen off and ad-free.

Same experience here! The only problem I have is that the Android search bar seems to ignore the default Browser setting, but avoiding it (opening FF rather than using the search bar widget) is a small price to pay for avoiding ads so effectively.

Another option you have is to put the firefox search widget above you google search widget in your home screen. It's a bit ridiculous that the Google search bar can't be removed, but this is second best.

Re: uBlock Origin works best on Firefox

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Post by jdfellow »

shmerl wrote: post #41
sackofmugs wrote: post #6

This is honestly one of the first time I'm convinced in a technical sense to consider Firefox over Chrome. uBlock Origin feels as core to me to web browsing as Saved Passwords and Incognito Mode. That uBlock Origin can work better is like the browser itself being better.

Never really got the appeal of Chrome. Firefox worked very well for me for years.

Years ago I switched at a time when Chrom[e|ium] had a better developer tools console than Firefox (although only slightly better than Firebug). But, nowadays the console is equal if not better in Firefox to Chrome.
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