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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.
Do people live in their browsers like that? I find it useful to keep both. 95% of the time I'm in Firefox, as one should be -- with all the good adblockers etc. And for the 5% unavoidable garbage of "things I must use/sign up for in life" that don't implement things properly, including Zoom, I keep Chrome around.
I hear this now and again, but haven't had Chrome installed for years now without issue. I'm made to use things like Zoom et al. too, but everything "just works" for me?
And I'm guessing that's either deliberate or lazy on Zoom.
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How are profile-specific Chrome extensions a problem in a Firefox install?
Let's say I have an extension that I use for work, that has a work-specific login or API key. I want to keep that plugin separate from the rest of my stuff because it's for work. You can't do that with tab containers. The profile interface for FF is archaic and hard to manage. Separate profiles was always a better solution than contained tabs.
On the other hand containers allow me to specify which ones to open on automatically and so I can use lots of different containers for different uses that I want to separate, e.g. Facebook, Gmail, HN... Something lots of people want to do, but you can't really do with profiles (well you could but it would be super annoying). Moreover I can use temporary containers so I have isolated tabs for all the general browsing (all websites where I haven't specified a specific container) with all the tracking information being deleted as soon as I close the tab.
Do people live in their browsers like that? I find it useful to keep both. 95% of the time I'm in Firefox, as one should be -- with all the good adblockers etc. And for the 5% unavoidable garbage of "things I must use/sign up for in life" that don't implement things properly, including Zoom, I keep Chrome around.
Chrome is now scanning every file on your computer and sending back metadata to google unless you opt-out in the name of "we made our browser an antivirus too!" but nobody sane believes that stuff. At least use a different chromium based browser instead of chrome itself. Brave is a fine option.
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Let's say I have an extension that I use for work, that has a work-specific login or API key. I want to keep that plugin separate from the rest of my stuff because it's for work. You can't do that with tab containers. The profile interface for FF is archaic and hard to manage. Separate profiles was always a better solution than contained tabs.
And what are those? I have yet to encounter anyone using a extension that contains some sort of work secrets/api. I'm not doubting it exists, but I think it's a use case which is maybe in the 0.00001% (if even that). On the other hand containers allow me to specify which ones to open on automatically and so I can use lots of different containers for different uses that I want to separate, e.g. Facebook, Gmail, HN...…
Actually password managers are very common, and immediately relevant to this conversation. I have a password manager for work, and one for personal. That puts us a bit higher than your pretty dismissive 0.00001% estimate.
Literally the first thing that came to mind and there are many more examples.
I use a tool called Junction which allows me to choose which browser opens up a link, which solves for your second issue.
Isolated browsers are much better than isolated tabs.
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You can directly launch a firefox profile with "firefox -p 'profile-name'" This will create a separate firefox instance running with that profile. It's not as nice as having a button in firefox to accomplish this, but if you use different shortcuts or keyboard commands to launch things it works quite well.
Also, adding the option "-no-remote" allows you to open a new profile that way when Firefox is already running.
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What power does MS have over high performance computing? Perhaps some fields use Windows specific applications, but most high performance computing I see uses Linux by default, with WSL for the Windows equivalent. I use Chrome as a fallback too when the measures I've taken to protect my privacy break websites I can't get around, but in most cases websites just work in my experience. Almost all of the issues I run int…
Nvidia has CUDA. CUDA is basically all that matters right now. Sure there is some half effort from Nvidia to support Linux, but you can do 1 google search to realize Nivida and Linux do not play together nicely.
I don't think I've ever had trouble getting CUDA to run. It seems to be the only thing Nvidia cares about making work reliably on Linux.
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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 bun…
> I think Firefox altering the ctrl+alt+left/right behaviour would break more workflows than it fixes, to be honest. What's it likely to break? I don't have anything bound to that combo by default.
> I like Chrome’s download bar at the bottom of the screen, as I need to download and handle many files for work. The fact that it is always visible, in every tab, until you close it Is there a way to re-enable this in chrome? It’s been replaced with the dreaded Firefox downloads butt Next to the address bar.
You can also keep it visible in Firefox. Right click the menu bar, click Customize, right click the downloads button, then unclick the hide when empty button.
My Profiles tips: 1. You can have multiple profile sessions running at the same time. 2. It is best to theme your alt profiles with a different color so you don't confuse them. For example, green one is for one profile and the red one another. 3. "firefox -p 'profile-name'" launches directly into a profile 4. "firefox -p 'profile-name' -private-window" launches a profile in a private window 5. I use keybindings on li…
Why do you not use containers?