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Re: Reasons to ditch Chrome and use Firefox

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Post by slenk »

heresie-dabord wrote: post #202
hnlmorg wrote: post #45

FireFox Containers are a killer feature for me. It allows you to run sandboxed sessions. So you can ostensibly make every site a private tab by default but have a small few sites persistent. Eg I’ll have a work group with GitHub, Okta, etc in it so I only need to log in once a day. But random websites cannot track me between sites. Couple that with DNS blocking of trackers and ads, and the web is actually a lot more…

The Mozilla focus on privacy is the killer feature for me. DNS encrypted "Total Cookie Protection" uBlock Origin multi-account containers I also like built-in screen capture *various other extensions, such as Copy All Tab URLs I didn't find "Pocket" compelling when it was first introduced, but I have since found some of the recommendations interesting. Bravo Mozilla!

Pocket is the only reason I use LibreWolf - I don't trust its integration and what parts I can actually disable

Re: Reasons to ditch Chrome and use Firefox

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Post by wintermutestwin »

kkfx wrote: post #96

I mainly use Firefox, because of vertical tabs (Tab Center Reborn), Reader, TPRB/NoScript etc BUT sometimes I fall back on Chromium simply because I want to access a webcrapplication that does not work and I do not want to dig how many js and co I have to allow to make it works... Yes, I can use still FF with different profiles, but I'm simply a bit too lazy for that...

I recently switched to vertical tabs in FF (Sidebery) and it is an incredibly better approach. Why the hell is this not built in to the browser??? It is lame that Mozilla isn't baking this kind of core functionality in. On top of that, they make it a PITA to kill the stupid horizontal tabs.

Supposedly Edge has a vertical tabs option. Chrome doesn't seem to even have a plug in for it.

Re: Reasons to ditch Chrome and use Firefox

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Post by supernovae »

kristiandupont wrote: post #64
sph wrote: post #30

I honestly want to ditch Firefox and try a Chromium browser for a minute [1], but I'm stuck on Firefox because it's the only one with a killer feature: send a tab to/from iOS and my Linux desktop. I skip Chrome and Edge for privacy reasons, Brave have a crappy and buggy sync feature that I don't know what OSes it supports, but not my combination. Can't send tabs with them. Vivaldi doesn't have an iOS port. Impossible…

> I'm starting to see broken sites What are some examples of this? I keep seeing this complaint and I keep asking for examples but I always get "just various sites"-like answers. FF is my primary browser and I am not seeing it. I am genuinely curious as to whether it is starting to fall behind but I can recall maybe two or three instances the past couple of years where I opened a site in Brave to see if it worked the…

Fidelity's website is busted in firefox a lot of the time

Re: Reasons to ditch Chrome and use Firefox

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Post by Tmpod »

jokoon wrote: post #199

I recently tried to enable resist fingerprinting, I ended disabling it because it broke all dark themes on websites...

It is doing its job. The media query for your theme is a point of data for fingerprinting, so disabling it is a good thing. However, it would be nice to have a way to select which measures should be applied, so you can costumise it to your preference.

Re: Reasons to ditch Chrome and use Firefox

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Post by barbacoa »

toma_caliente wrote: post #193
mark_l_watson wrote: post #187

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Are most VPN provides unreliable? I don’t know - never researched this. I use Proton VPN because it is bundled with ProtonMail. I very much like preventing my national Internet service provider from selling my browsing history.

Most VPN providers you typically see pushed are very suspect at best. Especially the ones you see commonly pushed by Youtubers like NordVPN, ExpressVPN etc. I think the only VPNs that have actually been externally audited are Mullvad and ProtonVPN.

What's is the concern about VPNs being "suspect" or "reliable"? I hear this a lot about VPN providers but not sure why. If the VPN is logging your activity/IP you'd have to be doing something super illegal for the police to want to get a search warrant for your data.

Re: Reasons to ditch Chrome and use Firefox

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Post by stinos »

detritus wrote: post #66
hnlmorg wrote: post #45

FireFox Containers are a killer feature for me. It allows you to run sandboxed sessions. So you can ostensibly make every site a private tab by default but have a small few sites persistent. Eg I’ll have a work group with GitHub, Okta, etc in it so I only need to log in once a day. But random websites cannot track me between sites. Couple that with DNS blocking of trackers and ads, and the web is actually a lot more…

I'm a big fan of multi-account containers.. or at least, was. Recently I inadvertantly added a domain to one of the ascribed containers on my laptop and I'll be damned if I can work out how to undo it, other than uninstalling and starting over, which'll be a pain, because I've customised it quite a bit. ...This is a plea for help, by the way, in case it wasn't obvious :) I'm sure there must be a json file or somethin…

because I've customised it quite a bit

Can this not (at least partly) solved by copying over the correct files in combination with settings sync?

Re: Reasons to ditch Chrome and use Firefox

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Post by jordemort »

ChuckNorris89 wrote: post #220
ByteJockey wrote: post #170

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Pretty much. People say that tech people switching doesn't do anything, but when tech people switch, semi-technical people get it via osmosis (forum posts for FF the first time, presumably reddit posts today). Suddenly when someone asks their friend that's slightly more technical than them for a recommendation, they get recommended the new thing instead of the old one. Whole process takes a couple years or so.

Then why is FF marketshare still tanking despite all the techies hyping it?

All the techies aren't hyping it. Most people that I know just use Chrome. My running joke whenever I see someone else using it in a Zoom share or something is "found the other Firefox user!"

Re: Reasons to ditch Chrome and use Firefox

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Post by SnowHill9902 »

barbacoa wrote: post #227
toma_caliente wrote: post #193

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Most VPN providers you typically see pushed are very suspect at best. Especially the ones you see commonly pushed by Youtubers like NordVPN, ExpressVPN etc. I think the only VPNs that have actually been externally audited are Mullvad and ProtonVPN.

What's is the concern about VPNs being "suspect" or "reliable"? I hear this a lot about VPN providers but not sure why. If the VPN is logging your activity/IP you'd have to be doing something super illegal for the police to want to get a search warrant for your data.

As always, the answer is it depends on your threat model.
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