The worst part about Firefox for me is that they removed most add-ons on Firefox Mobile (unless you use cumbersome collections).
Reasons to ditch Chrome and use Firefox
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Re: Reasons to ditch Chrome and use Firefox
#232Earlier quoted context omitted.
The ability to have separate sessions was actually the reason I switched to chrome many years ago, looks like it’s time to give Firefox another look
Although Firefox had profiles for ages and you could start Firefox with the profile manager and "new instance allowed" to choose a profile at the start of each new instance. More hidden then in Chromium, but definitely possible. EDIT: Just for completeness sake, here is the command to open Firefox with profile manager and new instances: firefox --new-instance --ProfileManager %u
I'm pretty sure the profile manager stuff in Firefox goes all the way back to the Netscape 4 days. If I recall correctly, back in the way back, it used to throw you into Profile Manager and walk you through creating your initial one on first launch of fresh installs. At some point they tucked that under the rug and just started creating the default profile automatically - maybe because it made less sense to ask for a bunch of personal information up-front when the browser was broken off from the mail client? Now most people have forgotten that Profile Manager even exists, but it's been there the whole time.
Re: Reasons to ditch Chrome and use Firefox
#233I 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…
> Our only hope is Mozilla takes their head out of their arse and start working on their browser instead of faffing about and making small, meaningless changes every release, but I don't see that happening any time soon.
Tab syncing is a small meaningless change to me, but not to you. Some of these things you find small and meaningless could be important to some other people (for example, multilingual spell-checking is very important to some people, X11 isolation is very important to some others).
What do you actually expect from Mozilla by "taking their head out of their arse" ?
Re: Reasons to ditch Chrome and use Firefox
#234Among all the other extensions that help guard my privacy and improve QoL, Containers is another great feature that integrates well with FF. I like maintaining profiles for privacy and security, and it helps me navigate certain sites where I have different accounts. I honestly don’t get the lean toward Chrome — or Safari for that matter. I don’t detect such a big jump in performance that I’d ever consider sacrificing…
Safari is fairly pro privacy and blocks or deletes data more aggressively than others sometimes.
Re: Reasons to ditch Chrome and use Firefox
#235Earlier quoted context omitted.
Question: how good is Edge privacy wise? Microsoft doesn’t make their big money selling advertising targeting services, right? I noticed that Edge is even available on iOS.
Edge is worse for privacy than Chrome. Even edge "private" browsing mode is significantly less private than Chrome's private browsing. It's one of the worst browsers for privacy. Edge makes lots of calls to Bing for advertising purposes.
Thanks.
Re: Reasons to ditch Chrome and use Firefox
#236I 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…
Every time something is broken for me on a site it is because of an addon/extension, not because of Firefox. I beleave Firefox get much blame for broken sites when it actually is an addon that the user installed which is to blame. I even have some vague recollection of Mozilla mentioning just this. Like 99% when something is broken it not because the browser but because some addon the user installed. So test a site t…
This matches my experience - it's not Firefox that's getting worse, but I'm encountering more and more sites that don't function correctly when uBlock Origin is enabled. Whenever I run into a site seems busted, I disable uBlock, reload, and suddenly everything works. I'm not sure if the filters I'm using are getting worse or if the JS on the sites I'm visiting is.
I used to use Decentraleyes but I ended up uninstalling that completely because it broke so many sites.
Re: Reasons to ditch Chrome and use Firefox
#237This extension right here: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tree-style-ta...
Re: Reasons to ditch Chrome and use Firefox
#238Google Workspace user here, and Firefox and Google Docs/Sheets don't play well together, I've tried. Of course I'd like to find a Google Workspace replacement but I can't seem to find any so, I am married to Google.
Also a Google Workspace user, using Firefox for everything with no issues.
Re: Reasons to ditch Chrome and use Firefox
#239I 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…
> Our only hope is Mozilla takes their head out of their arse and start working on their browser instead of faffing about and making small, meaningless changes every release, but I don't see that happening any time soon. Tab syncing is a small meaningless change to me, but not to you. Some of these things you find small and meaningless could be important to some other people (for example, multilingual spell-checking…
> What do you actually expect from Mozilla by "taking their head out of their arse" ?
Investing in their browser. Investing in an alternative ecosystem.
Brave have added in-browser Torrent, TOR, IPFS support. That's what I would expect from Mozilla, trying to differentiate itself. Now we've lost the compact UI, got coloured themes for one release. What's cooking that's really exciting? What's the plan to retake some of the lost market share? I can't see any thirst to improve over there.
Re: Reasons to ditch Chrome and use Firefox
#240I've been using FF as my main browser again since (I think) Quantum, and kept it at version 91 to avoid the constant breaking UI changes. Performance since Quantum is generally good, but for more intense things like video or apps I am going back to Chrome now. FF keeps my CPU 20C higher than Chrome for some simple Youtube videos, which is just ridiculous (Macbook 12, 2017). For daily non-performance relevant use, I s…
Every version bump includes patches for serious security vulnerabilities. You should reconsider your decision to pin to version 91.