I did, but I get beach balls of death now and then, I also need a websocket frame inspector
Give Firefox a chance
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Re: Give Firefox a chance
#202I switched back to Chrome from Firefox. FF was slow, bloated, used all my RAM,no add on support (even for those add-ons who had an an FF product) Mobile sites, especially HN just don't work properly on HF. The simple act of collapsing posts often seems to overwhelm the browser on my Pixel. Not to mention there's this bug where videos create notifications on FF Android, and these notifications keep your phone alive fr…
On mobile, I am using Safari and article just about desktop version. I should have mentioned this >_<
Re: Give Firefox a chance
#203Not much content in this article. A single benchmark which shows nothing of real-life cases. Two minor technical features, one of them already in Chrome beta. Lastly, an appeal to fight Chrome's monopole. Surprisingly, not a word about privacy. I do give Firefox a chance, but it gets tiring. Many years ago, I dropped Firefox's ancestor for Opera 6. The UI and the features were miles ahead (e.g. Mozilla had no tabs).…
> I still use Firefox, but I'm getting more and more irritated against it. I had to search the web in order to change the tile of empty tabs (no buttons, no context menu, only drag-n-drop from bookmarks). Who designed such an unguessable interface? Whenever I hear people complain about the settings being impossible to figure out, I always open them up and try. So I opened settings, which has a search input at the top…
Firefox must have realized that their UI for handling "top sites" was bad. In ESR v60.7, the Tiles/topSites block has a menu where the first entry is "+ Add Top Site". This was missing before.
In fact, this problem was not directly mine, it was a request from my parents.
I made my parents (nearly 70 years old) use Firefox. After an upgrade of their FF, they lost their usual homepage. In empty tabs their custom links were replaced by the dynamical list of their most visited sites. At the time of change, most tiles were not even relevant because their recent activity was not representative. They were annoyed, tried to fix it, and failed.
There was no contextual help, and searching technical info is hard for non technical persons, especially if they don't understand English. So my parents called me for help. On my next visit to them, I tried to do it myself, but did not manage to guess how it worked. DDG helped. After this episode, I wondered if FF was the right browser for them. It seems that Chromium's UI is more stable, and that is important for ageing people.
Re: Give Firefox a chance
#204It doesn't perform well on my Mac. No hw accelerated video (and still kinda slow) when I run Linux. I've tried multiple times, and as much as I like what Mozilla is doing for privacy on the web, I keep coming back to Chromium.
It's not like upstream Chromium has accelerated video on Linux..
Re: Give Firefox a chance
#205These constant pleas to get me to use Firefox for some other motivation than features and performance won't work. I'll switch back in a day. - Battery life on both iOS and macOS is poor compared to alternative (Safari) - Dev tooling is poor compared to alternative (Chromium)
> Dev tooling is poor compared to alternative
Really? Other than the websocket thing everyone keeps bringing up, I find Firefox devtools ahead of everything else. Especially for CSS layout.
Re: Give Firefox a chance
#20699% of "you should switch to Firefox" articles focus on the speed of the browser. I used Firefox since it was beta till Edge came out when everyone around me was asking "why are you not using Chrome?", and the thing is, I never had much problem with the speed or the crashes, so I never felt the need to switch to Chrome. Until WP died and I bought an Android phone. Then I switched to Chrome so that I get perfect synch…
> I think the reason why majority of people are using Chrome and Safari is not because of speed, it is because of synchronization, I think most people use Chrome simply because they switched once and never looked back, especially when “lol other browsers use Chrome” is pretty much a meme. Firefox Sync is great and I don't think it's lacking some key feature Google offers.
Firefox Sync does not have synchronization of contacts, calendar or map locations.
Re: Give Firefox a chance
#207Earlier quoted context omitted.
I had the same experience. Switched to Chrome from Firefox years ago, tried and was disappointed by the initial Quantum release, tried Firefox again with the “Chrome is killing uBlock Origin” announcement, very pleased this time. My main gripe with Firefox at the moment is Sync. It just doesn’t sync everything you need. My Firefox profile is highly customized, with a lot of extensions that all have their own complex…
Oh I absolutely detested this as well. Containers is one of my favourite add-ons, and I have it highly customized. But I have to set it up everytime from scratch on a different computer - there's no sync even though Containers is from Mozilla themselves!
Edit: replied to wrong comment
Yeah this is exactly the problem.
Re: Give Firefox a chance
#208Earlier quoted context omitted.
Blink is to Chromium/Chrome as Webkit is to Safari Webkit and blink are browser engines and Chromium/Chrome are both browsers, but Chromium doesn't include the closed source pieces that Chrome does.
> Webkit and blink are browser engines Petty sure Webkit is also a browser you can build and run, like Chromium.
No, WebKit is an engine. It ships with small demo browsers for some platforms (minibrowser for gtk, at least) but that's it.
You might be confused by Apple calling its nightly Safari builds "WebKit technical preview" or whatever. It (used to) show up as "WebKit.app", but it's literally Apple Safari.
Re: Give Firefox a chance
#209I've long regarded the calls to switch to Firefox as tinfoil-hatted crankery but Chrome's behaviour with respect to ad-blocking caused me to finally make the switch. At the time I didn't use ad-blocking at all and didn't have any plans on it but I think this represented unacceptable overreach by Google so I switched to Firefox (and DDG for search). I still miss bits of Chrome, the Chrome UX is still better, especiall…
What Chrome behaviour regarding ad-blocking caused you to make the switch? Installing an ad-blocker with Chrome is just as easy as installing one with FF.
I believe they've u-turned on it now but I was thinking of this https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.theregister.co.uk/AMP/2019/...
(from Google AMP because I'm on mobile and haven't made the switch on mobile yet)
As I say I'm not particularly concerned personally about not being able to use ad-blocking but it points to an abuse of monopoly power.
Re: Give Firefox a chance
#210Firefox is absolute garbage on any OS that isn't Windows. I think that's probably the biggest thing for the power user crowd...but as a someone that finds dual booting too inconvenient, so I virtualize instead, and will never touch an Apple product..works great for me and most family members and friends I set up with it are pretty satisfied. The new built-in tracking protection is pretty great, and the only extension…
Firefox is excellent on FreeBSD :P