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Re: How to Firefox

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Post by uallo »

mg wrote: post #184

There is one showstopper, why I can't recommend Firefox to friends: Mozilla's refusal to support the File System Access API. With the File System Access API, we can finally build local first web applications. I already wrote my own todo-list app and text editor and some other more specialized apps that work nicely in Chrome (On desktop and mobile). And I am in the process of writing a photo gallery too. One can build…

It, sadly, seems unrealistic to have that API with cross-browser compatibility.

https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues/154

https://github.com/WebKit/standards-positions/issues/28

Re: How to Firefox

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Post by VHRanger »

voxic11 wrote: post #156
giancarlostoro wrote: post #129

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm about the same, I don't even know what the loading speeds issue is about, I still remember Firefox Quantum beating the daylights out of Chrome, and I don't know if Chrome ever fully caught up to Quantum? What's really funny is for ages Chrome would load the browser window even if the whole browser UI wasn't done loading, and sometime after Quantum, Firefox started doing the same trick to make you feel as though i…

Do you use Firefox for Android? I use it for the extension support but its noticeably slower than Chrome on Android.

With ublock origin enabled on an android device I'd argue it's rather much faster

Re: How to Firefox

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Post by zamadatix »

vntok wrote: post #97

I wonder how much posts like these do to push people away from Firefox and towards other alternatives like Brave, Orion, etc. Surely, given the HN audience, virtually nobody in here is seriously discovering that Firefox exists. However, once the HN reader's mind is set to move away from Chrome, the comments here always push various alternatives to Firefox (mostly forks) that might be unknown and interesting to try. A…

I think the root of it is that crowd of nerds aren't particularly interested in going back to Firefox. That they have a new interest in getting off Chrome doesn't change that as they already have a browser they aren't too thrilled with installed and configured. The promise of some new variant that does things right (tm) is the only thing interesting enough to trigger a switch.

Re: How to Firefox

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Post by mentalgear »

mattlutze wrote: post #89

I am surprised how many people have so many problems with Firefox. I've never felt impeded by loading speeds, and my ADHD regularly has me forgetting to restart it, to the tune of 100+ tabs open across multiple desktops. My wimply little MacBook Pro doesn't seem to mind. The only downside I've found is that, because so many people just default to "Chrome or nothing," there's occasionally sites that have bugs because,…

100 tabs? Step aside, buddy. I have currently around ~2000 tabs. Firefox is a beast.

Re: How to Firefox

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Post by hk1337 »

At least three reasons why I prefer (reason I can think of right now) that prefer Safari on macOS is the SMS/Messages integrations for sites still using SMS for 2FA, pinch to show all tabs (useful if you have a lot of tabs open for some reason), and private browsing is exactly that, if I open Facebook in a private window and login, open a new tab and go to Facebook, it doesn't recognize that I am logged.

Other than that, I love Firefox. I switched an automation we had using Chrome/Chromium to login to the site to Firefox because every time the Chrome browser binary updated I had to download a new version of the webdriver.

Re: How to Firefox

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Post by grimgrin »

giancarlostoro wrote: post #181
voxic11 wrote: post #156

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Do you use Firefox for Android? I use it for the extension support but its noticeably slower than Chrome on Android.

I'm on iOS, I guess I mainly use Firefox on Desktop, on iOS there's no point in me using Firefox since its forced to use Webkit under the covers.

firefox on all my devices for the simple pleasure of sending tabs between devices

sometimes i'm reading something on phone and i "send to all devices", i'll sure as shit see it again this way

(even librewolf allows you to continue doing this)

Re: How to Firefox

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Post by vladvasiliu »

mattlutze wrote: post #89

I am surprised how many people have so many problems with Firefox. I've never felt impeded by loading speeds, and my ADHD regularly has me forgetting to restart it, to the tune of 100+ tabs open across multiple desktops. My wimply little MacBook Pro doesn't seem to mind. The only downside I've found is that, because so many people just default to "Chrome or nothing," there's occasionally sites that have bugs because,…

I was in your boat up until a few days ago, when it randomly decided in wouldn't load properly. I force quit it, and then it forgot all my tabs. Now, it actually remembered what seemed like the correct number of tabs, each with the correct container, only the address was gone from every tab!

Other than that, it works well enough for me. My only beef is I can't completely disable tabs, but I don't know of any equivalent browser that can.

Re: How to Firefox

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Post by ahmetcadirci25 »

0xpgm wrote: post #176
ahmetcadirci25 wrote: post #147

This is something that has been on my mind for years — I want to use Firefox, but for some strange reason, it just doesn’t feel as smooth as Chrome. Here are the features of Firefox that I find particularly appealing: - The Firefox Multi-Account Containers feature, in my opinion, is what puts this browser at the top. - Additionally, the privacy extensions work incredibly well. However, there are some drawbacks: - Str…

> The Firefox Multi-Account Containers feature, in my opinion, is what puts this browser at the top. For a long time this was the reason I didn't move to Brave, but eventually I realized I don't need it so much because Brave already sandboxes cookies for each site so some social media or ad network won't be able to track me across different sites. The remaining use for multi-account containers now is staying logged i…

I don't care about cookies at all — what matters to me is being able to log into multiple, separate accounts. Creating browser profiles feels like starting everything from scratch: settings, extensions, and more. It's just not practical.

With Firefox, you set your preferences and extensions once, and from then on, tab-based profiles work flawlessly.

I wish Chrome had a similar feature — a container system at the tab level.

Re: How to Firefox

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Post by disgruntledphd2 »

rs186 wrote: post #169
thinkingtoilet wrote: post #132

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>I've never felt impeded by loading speeds I honestly think it's just something people here like to complain about. It's a complete non-issue. No everyday web experience is even close to being noticeably different. Full stop. It's almost like a meme, people say it because they think they should say it. I would ask those people that are complaining, what are you doing with all those extra milliseconds you claim you're…

When you have web pages that that completely freeze the Firefox browser but work smoothly on Chrome, you won't call it non-issue.

This doesn't seem to happen to me anymore, certainly not since Quantum. Your experience may obviously differ. I've been running FF for like twenty years now, across Windows, Linux and Mac.

Re: How to Firefox

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Post by fsflover »

cosmic_cheese wrote: post #149
lol768 wrote: post #68

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It’s still something of an exaggeration. If you take a look at the source for iOS browsers, the amount of unique code is non-trivial. At minimum, it’s a sliding scale rather than binary and iOS browsers are less Safari reskins than Chromium-based browsers (most of which share a much higher percentage of code) are Chrome reskins. There’s exceptions like Arc which uses a bespoke AppKit/SwiftUI/WinUI UI instead of the s…

> the amount of unique code is non-trivial

This doesn't matter as long as essential features of Firefox aren't allowed by Apple.

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