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Re: Switching from Chrome to Firefox

#191

Post by hylaride »

acvny wrote: post #185

Sorry for the stupid question. But can anyone paste a link about why chrome is bad?

It’s a browser made by an advertising company. They’ve made a few decisions lately that have shown that fact (recent changes that have placed limits on third party ad blockers, for example). It’s also gotten more bloated lately.

They’ve also forced the integration with google sync. If you sign into google anywhere (including using google to sign in to a third party website), it will sign chrome in as well.

Re: Switching from Chrome to Firefox

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Post by faitswulff »

thibran wrote: post #175

Firefox is nice. But over time there are more and more things I need to configure to get a "good" browser experience. Things I do: - about:preferences#general > Startup > restore previous session - about:preferences#general > Tabs > uncheck Ctrl+Tab cycle ... - about:preferences#general > Downloads > always ask where to save - about:preferences#home > Firefox Home Content > disable all except Top Sites - about:prefer…

I haven't needed to do all of these since I set up Sync, which makes me think life might be easier if you just made a Firefox account to sync your settings.

Re: Switching from Chrome to Firefox

#193

Post by reagent_finder »

inetknght wrote: post #182
thibran wrote: post #175

Firefox is nice. But over time there are more and more things I need to configure to get a "good" browser experience. Things I do: - about:preferences#general > Startup > restore previous session - about:preferences#general > Tabs > uncheck Ctrl+Tab cycle ... - about:preferences#general > Downloads > always ask where to save - about:preferences#home > Firefox Home Content > disable all except Top Sites - about:prefer…

Once upon a time, software would go through all of the configuration options and explain what they did. This would always happen on a new installation but good software also had a button to click to repeat the walkthrough. Ode to user-friendly software.

That's not at all true, any and all wizards or configuration dialogues would go over a small subset of settings deemed 'important' by someone. There isn't a single program out there anywhere that has a walkthrough that goes through all configuration options. At least I don't believe one to exist, I would certainly be enthusiastic to be proven wrong!

About:config in Firefox has 3930 lines. That would be a very, very, very long walkthrough :) I can see it now, "Okay, to use Firefox, you will now have to click 'next' 4000 times." Thanks.

Re: Switching from Chrome to Firefox

#194

Post by soulofmischief »

thibran wrote: post #175

Firefox is nice. But over time there are more and more things I need to configure to get a "good" browser experience. Things I do: - about:preferences#general > Startup > restore previous session - about:preferences#general > Tabs > uncheck Ctrl+Tab cycle ... - about:preferences#general > Downloads > always ask where to save - about:preferences#home > Firefox Home Content > disable all except Top Sites - about:prefer…

That's funny, Chrome's lack of Ctrl+Tab cycling via most recent is a death blow for me. I love that about Firefox, and love that it's configurable.

Otherwise... yeah. It's pretty unusable out the gate.

Re: Switching from Chrome to Firefox

#195

Post by jeltz »

prox wrote: post #106
foepys wrote: post #72

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Counterpoint: A work colleague of mine has over 1000 tabs open at all times and his work machine only has 12GB of total RAM. Those 12 GB run Firefox, Visual Studio (!), and Windows and everything is working fine.

Is 1000 tabs open a replacement for bookmarks? I can’t imagine a workflow where having this many open would be advantageous.

In my case yes. I do not like the UI for bookmarks and the UI for tabs is closer to what I would want for a bookmark UI.

Re: Switching from Chrome to Firefox

#196

Post by jeltz »

mantap wrote: post #131
haunter wrote: post #66

I like Firefox but I'm also a heavy tab user. Usually around 70-100 open with ~10-13GB RAM. Chrome is just better in that aspect, much better performance. Altho I use ungoogled-chromium not retail Chrome https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium

I use an extension that automatically closes tabs after 30 minutes of inactivity. So my tab counts never get super high. I think when people say they want a lot of tabs, they mean they want better bookmarking and history search. There's almost no reason to keep more than a few dozen tabs open in the background, wasting CPU and RAM.

Yes, what I want are two things:

1. Work spaces so that I can return to the same set of tabs with the same scroll positions as last time I worked on a certain project (e.g. one for work, one for leisure and one for my open source projects).

2. A better UI for bookmarks. The current bookmark UI is just too many clicks and too much manual management.

Re: Switching from Chrome to Firefox

#197

Post by acvny »

hylaride wrote: post #191
acvny wrote: post #185

Sorry for the stupid question. But can anyone paste a link about why chrome is bad?

It’s a browser made by an advertising company. They’ve made a few decisions lately that have shown that fact (recent changes that have placed limits on third party ad blockers, for example). It’s also gotten more bloated lately. They’ve also forced the integration with google sync. If you sign into google anywhere (including using google to sign in to a third party website), it will sign chrome in as well.

Thanks. Yes automatic browser login when you login into gmail for example is very annoying.

Re: Switching from Chrome to Firefox

#198

Post by Yoric »

reagent_finder wrote: post #193
inetknght wrote: post #182

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Once upon a time, software would go through all of the configuration options and explain what they did. This would always happen on a new installation but good software also had a button to click to repeat the walkthrough. Ode to user-friendly software.

That's not at all true, any and all wizards or configuration dialogues would go over a small subset of settings deemed 'important' by someone. There isn't a single program out there anywhere that has a walkthrough that goes through all configuration options. At least I don't believe one to exist, I would certainly be enthusiastic to be proven wrong! About:config in Firefox has 3930 lines. That would be a very, very,…

I remember installing Linux like that during the (early?) 90s. It took about two days of answering endless questions ("Do you want Klingon fonts?")

I much prefer what we get nowadays.

Re: Switching from Chrome to Firefox

#199

Post by LukaD »

thibran wrote: post #175

Firefox is nice. But over time there are more and more things I need to configure to get a "good" browser experience. Things I do: - about:preferences#general > Startup > restore previous session - about:preferences#general > Tabs > uncheck Ctrl+Tab cycle ... - about:preferences#general > Downloads > always ask where to save - about:preferences#home > Firefox Home Content > disable all except Top Sites - about:prefer…

The absolute worst default setting for me is smooth scrolling enabled.

Re: Switching from Chrome to Firefox

#200

Post by johnnycab »

lawn wrote: post #158
philshem wrote: post #79

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

>They also don't sync between devices

I would second this, it took me a while to troubleshoot this problem. If you don't use Sync, then it might be irrelevant.

I also use Tab Suspender to reduce the footprint, the 'suspended' tabs also intermittently fail to sync.

Github: https://github.com/Hau-Hau/firefox-tab-suspender

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