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Re: Tell HN: Firefox Is an awesome browser right now

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Post by Zurrrrr »

wsgeorge wrote: post #3

Firefox was my go-to 3 years ago because it was just lighter than Chrome (and easier on my battery). I still hate the fact that different browser profiles and profile switching aren't surfaced like they are in Chrome. I think it's such a major use case for modern web browsing, I find it hard to believe they aren't prioritizing it. (FWIW this isn't even supported in Safari, which I would have preferred using) I still…

I don't think profiles are that important when most users have their own account these days.

Re: Tell HN: Firefox Is an awesome browser right now

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Post by dxxvi »

nend wrote: post #9

I just switched back to chrome for the same reason. Every page in Firefox was taking 60+second to load. Tried it on chrome and pages were loading instantly. I had originally switched to Firefox for privacy concerns but that and the memory usage/occasional crashing were too much for me. edit: not sure what the downvotes are for. I'm glad there's a second option out there. It didn't work for me but figured it was worth…

Did you try to clean up Firefox (i.e. remove the whole Firefox profile on the disk)?

Re: Tell HN: Firefox Is an awesome browser right now

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Post by bbor »

crazygringo wrote: post #142

I love Firefox too but this is a really weird post. The OP is clearly having performance issues with Chrome presumably due to extensions interfering or something else. I can guarantee you that Google makes sure Gmail loads at least as fast in Chrome as in Firefox. Chrome is customizable too (panes you can open/close), Chrome extensions are also thriving, and Chrome was the one who invented the "clean look", same as F…

I think it’s just some uncritical excitement. Given the typical discourse on our browser options, I thought it was nice :) perhaps not academic or technical, but relatable.

Re: Tell HN: Firefox Is an awesome browser right now

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Post by dom96 »

> I'd be glad to learn of any other cool features and extensions that y'all might want to share.

I built an extension to inject your Mastodon timeline into Twitter[0], recently added Firefox support as well. Especially useful as a stop gap in light of Twitter getting rid of their API access and hopefully will be a first step for many to transitioning to Mastodon.

[0] - https://chirper.picheta.me

Re: Tell HN: Firefox Is an awesome browser right now

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Post by trimethylpurine »

BirAdam wrote: post #70

I now use Brave on everything: Linux, Mac, iOS, iPadOS. Mozilla has some really weird stuff going on in their financials that bother me, and as a result, I just can’t use their products anymore. This is similar to my feelings about Google, Microsoft, and so on. I prefer tech companies to just be tech companies and not branch into other fields. I understand that Brave’s stance on certain things bleeds into politics wi…

I'm not seeing what's troubling here. Going strictly off of the examples you provided, I see that they largely hold their donations as bonds, while re-donating the rest to either purchase open source software or, at the government level, prevent tech companies from selling privacy or participating in censorship. As an anarchist, wouldn't that be something you'd approve of?

I don't use Firefox. I find the UI to be clunky. But after reading your examples I'm persuaded to switch.

Re: Tell HN: Firefox Is an awesome browser right now

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Post by micahdeath »

marginalia_nu wrote: post #134

I use Firefox sort of begrudgingly. It's marginally less bad than the other options, but it's still an awful browser. I vehemently disagree with almost all of its design decisions, and with every new release they seem to stray even farther from sane UX. It has hamburger menus on desktop and a lot of weird space-saving design that makes no sense on a modern high resolution display. Buttons are small, have cryptic flat…

This also sounds like Chrome and Edge.

Re: Tell HN: Firefox Is an awesome browser right now

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Post by silon42 »

Kim_Bruning wrote: post #145
alhirzel wrote: post #121

The Tree Style Tab extension[1] is wonderful for "keeping tabs" on our modern "to forget" lists (unclosed tabs). Putting tabs on the left is also a good screen real estate trade for wide aspect ratio screens. [1]: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tree-style-ta...

Tree Style Tabs is absolutely vital to me, I don't understand how people can live without that extension. The other thing I use a lot is firefox's readability builtin (it's not an extension), which removes all the cruft and *walls from websites and makes them... readable in one click. These two together are killer apps for me. I might consider switching to another browser (firefox isn't exactly the paragon of virtue…

I used to use it, until I wrote my own vertical tabs extension, which acceptably handles thousands of tabs...
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