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Re: Switching from Chrome to Firefox

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Post by jeroenhd »

sinuhe69 wrote: post #46

Something I didn't find mentioning is increasing the number of parallel connections in Firefox. When I inspect the network and responses of FF, I often find connections were "blocked" (for several hundreds ms). Thus, increasing the number of persistent connections to a server will unblock those connections and allow the website to render much faster. Go to about:config and change: network.http.max-persistent-connecti…

This setting is a classic in the "tweak Firefox" blog posts.

Increasing connection count will make HTTP 1.1 websites faster, but they'll also cause random rate limiting errors if you increase the value too much. How high you should set this value is up to you, but it's one of the first things you should reset when websites start acting weird in Firefox but not in other browsers.

Re: Switching from Chrome to Firefox

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Post by intelVISA »

jwells89 wrote: post #137

I have a considerable number of tweaks I apply to my Firefox installs, too and the process is a little cumbersome. I wonder if it would be a reasonable task to set up an “opinionated” fork of Firefox with all the changes being UI/UX-related and keep it up to date with mainline… that would make fresh installs more effortless and allow improvements that aren’t practical with regular Firefox.

Sounds like Librewolf, which is Firefox with the Mozilla privacy invasions reduced and mitigated.

Re: Switching from Chrome to Firefox

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Post by bwat49 »

littlestymaar wrote: post #57
luuurker wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

(I'm replying to the original version of your comment.) How can you have different bookmarks, extensions, and maybe even a different theme (so you know you're using the right window) with containers? The answer is: you can't. Because containers and profiles are different things. That's the "sacrifice" you're asking users to make. To change the way they use browsers, to adapt to something that is useful, but not a com…

> How can you have different bookmarks, extensions, and maybe even a different theme (so you know you're using the right window) > The answer is: you can't. Because containers and profiles are different things. If that's what you need then just use Firefox profiles then! The thing is, most people don't need that, and containers offert better ergonomics for the majority use-case (like the one described in the post). B…

Firefox has a really poor implementation of multi-profile compared to chrome though. There's no built in way to create shortcuts for each profile, no profile switcher icon on the toolbar, etc... Not to mention how much of a PIA it is to get windows to pin multiple firefox shortcuts for different profiles to your taskbar and get them to behave properly.

Edge's multi-profile support blows them both out of the water though, with the ability to right click tabs and move them between profiles, automatically open links for certain domains in certain profiles, being able to set a default profile for external links, etc...

Re: Switching from Chrome to Firefox

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Post by dblohm7 »

moffkalast wrote: post #60
dblohm7 wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Chrome's font rendering is the outlier among browsers. The author of the article is seeing that difference and they want Firefox to look like Chrome. I think the commentary is taking an issue with the suggestion that there's something "wrong" with Firefox's font rendering, when it's really Chrome who is the outlier.

Maybe we need a screenshot from Safari to compare and break the tie. As of right now there's substantially more browsers that use Blink (and comprise over half of the market share) though so Firefox and Safari will always be outliers.

You're splitting hairs, here, but fine: I'm referring to browser engines.

Re: Switching from Chrome to Firefox

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Post by jeroenhd »

Synaesthesia wrote: post #9

Install ublock origin and you're good to go. It's really quite a great browser, on Android, Linux and Windows I reckon it's the best. On Mac I still use safari for the performance and battery saving.

On Linux you may also want to consider an alternative browser for performance and battery saving. The recent addition (Firefox 115 I believe) of hardware accelerated video decoding should make things better, but I'm still regularly seeing 50-90% CPU for a tab just playing a Youtube video that my Intel GPU should be decoding. I can tolerate that on desktop, but on my laptop I want to preserve battery life.

I'm not sure why but Linux also seems slower in Firefox's benchmarks. My guess is that Mozilla is optimising for their most common users (and Linux users have a high probability of picking Firefox anyway). Hopefully more Windows features will make it into the Linux build soon.

Re: Switching from Chrome to Firefox

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Post by jeroenhd »

bad_alloc wrote: post #128

A major issue I have with firefox is that it loses my pinnend tabs if i close browser windows in the wrong oder. Is there a way to keep them always?

I use File > Quit to close my browser and all of my windows restore just fine.

If Firefox doesn't restore all your windows on startup, try hitting ctrl+shift+n, that should reopen the last (non-private) window you closed. In my experience this works across sessions, as long as you don't erase the browser history.

Re: Switching from Chrome to Firefox

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Post by jefftk »

BeefWellington wrote: post #96
jefftk wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> it's because it is the only browser today that correctly implements CORS What's the difference in their CORS implementations? As far as I know all three major browser engines follow the modern spec.

Firefox correctly implements the behaviour when CORS is not properly configured, rather than failing to "the old way".

Huh? If I have a resource I serve without Access-Control-Allow-Origin headers, all three browser engines won't make it available in cross-origin contexts. [1]

For example, here are a pair of pages which make a cross-origin fetch for a resource that either does (yes-cors) or does not (no-cors) opt into cross-origin resource sharing. In all three browsers yes-cors displays the contents of the resource, and no-cors (correctly) displays "error".

https://www.kingfisherband.com/test/yes-cors

https://www.kingfisherband.com/test/no-cors

[1] With the exception of some standardized legacy cross-origin contexts like images, but then they all protect the contents in the same way.

Re: Switching from Chrome to Firefox

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Post by jeroenhd »

adithyassekhar wrote: post #121

You can't go back a page using both Alt (+ Left Arrow) keys on Firefox. Only with the left Alt key, which is super uncomfortable.

AltGr (the right alt key) essentially translates to ctrl+alt on Windows and some Linux configurations. It also acts as a compose key on some configurations, making it quite unreliable for navigation as the system IME may intercept the key before sending it through.

You can rebind it back to a normal alt key at the operating system level if you don't care about the AltGr functionality, that'll probably fix a whole bunch of unexpected problems you may be having in other programs. I think Firefox altering the ctrl+alt+left/right behaviour would break more workflows than it fixes, to be honest.

Re: Switching from Chrome to Firefox

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Post by aidenn0 »

unregistereddev wrote: post #58
neals wrote: post #13

I've always found the Firefox devtools be a little less 'quality of life' like. Just my opinion. Haven't used it in a few years. But for me, I just live in devtools, you know. As most of you here, probably. Opinions?

In my opinion this is one of those "use what you're used to" things. Firefox's dev tools are amazing for me and Chrome's seem difficult to use. They both have very similar features, but the UI of the dev tools is different enough that it is difficult to regularly switch between the two.

I still haven't figured out how to collect and view profiling information in when disconnected from the internet, ever since they integerated it with profiler.firefox.com.

Re: Switching from Chrome to Firefox

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Post by retrocryptid »

littlestymaar wrote: post #57
luuurker wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

(I'm replying to the original version of your comment.) How can you have different bookmarks, extensions, and maybe even a different theme (so you know you're using the right window) with containers? The answer is: you can't. Because containers and profiles are different things. That's the "sacrifice" you're asking users to make. To change the way they use browsers, to adapt to something that is useful, but not a com…

> How can you have different bookmarks, extensions, and maybe even a different theme (so you know you're using the right window) > The answer is: you can't. Because containers and profiles are different things. If that's what you need then just use Firefox profiles then! The thing is, most people don't need that, and containers offert better ergonomics for the majority use-case (like the one described in the post). B…

meh. installing extensions. i'm too old for that.
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