The irony is Chrome feels less advertise-y than Firefox with its Pocket integration, Amazon suggestions, and god knows what else
Switching from Chrome to Firefox
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Re: Switching from Chrome to Firefox
#232Earlier quoted context omitted.
As a 15+ years Firefox user: What is "very much off" about Firefox' font rendering? For me it's the opposite, Chrome's rendering looks completely off to me - thin and it looks like the ClearType effect is set to 11. On the other hand, Firefox' font rendering in that screenshot looks like native Windows font rendering to me.
> Firefox' font rendering in that screenshot looks like native Windows font rendering to me. How?! This is how example.com renders: https://i.imgur.com/MFo7ACg.png Pay attention to how the word "illustrative" renders: https://i.imgur.com/lFJIEZG.png See e.g. the boldness on e.g. the first "l"? Firefox's clearly has two very dark vertical strokes in adjacent pixels -- one black, one dark blue right next to it. Its ren…
I see exactly what you're talking about (quite noticable on the 'a' characters) and I wish somebody could explain why Firefox is rendering like that, and if it's a Windows platform specific issue.
Re: Switching from Chrome to Firefox
#233Earlier quoted context omitted.
In my experience, only sites that break are google ones. Right now Google Flights and Hotels are pretty much unusable, as is GCP console.
Not even those are broken for me. What's broken for you?
https://youtu.be/e-uGQlT97lc
For example this. I'm trying hard to click on the "Sun 1 Oct" button.
Google sites - with exceptions, like Maps or YT - are full of things like this.
Re: Switching from Chrome to Firefox
#234Earlier quoted context omitted.
Profiles and Containers are different things. If more people understood this, we would be asking for better profile support on Firefox and for container support on Chromium, not suggesting containers to people who need profiles or trying to use profiles as if they were tab containers. I want profiles because they provide exactly what you mentioned: separation. I need different extensions, bookmarks, history, etc. And…
If you want profiles and not containers, you can use profiles too in Firefox, it works well (I do it on the shared family computer). It's just not what most people use profiles for in Chrome, which lacks the separation between profiles and container.
> you can use profiles too in Firefox, it works well
So explain me:
1. How do I set up a new profile in Firefox. In Chrome creating a new Profile takes 3 clicks and entering a name.
2. How I open two instances/windows of Firefox at the same time each with a different profile. In Chrome opening a second profile is two clicks (when Chrome is already running)
Re: Switching from Chrome to Firefox
#235Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Firefox' font rendering in that screenshot looks like native Windows font rendering to me. How?! This is how example.com renders: https://i.imgur.com/MFo7ACg.png Pay attention to how the word "illustrative" renders: https://i.imgur.com/lFJIEZG.png See e.g. the boldness on e.g. the first "l"? Firefox's clearly has two very dark vertical strokes in adjacent pixels -- one black, one dark blue right next to it. Its ren…
I see exactly what you're talking about (quite noticable on the 'a' characters) and I wish somebody could explain why Firefox is rendering like that, and if it's a Windows platform specific issue.
Thanks. I've found it futile to argue with people about font rendering over the years. It's always like people are just in denial of reality. Which I feel is emblematic of how Firefox (and Linux, and lots of other libre software) lose desktop market share, IMO - by denying the reality everyone else sees.
Re: Switching from Chrome to Firefox
#236Earlier quoted context omitted.
Also from what I've noted is that when you sign into a secondary account on the main profile's account, Chrome is prompting you if you don't want it to create a new profile for you. Then again, they have the problem that they think that it's appropriate to open the last used profile if you start Chrome again, which can lock out inexperienced users out of the other profile since they don't know how to get that one sta…
> For me the normal solution of creating separate profiles in Firefox is to use Firefox Portable and have each profile live in their own directory / installation. That seems a bit overkill to me. Creating profiles can be done at about:profiles and starting a profile with a shortcut to firefox --profile $PROFILENAME. Not sure how that could be simpler
>Not sure how that could be simpler
I'm not a fan of Chrome, by any means, but you can't be serious here. A Chrome-style built in profile switcher is how it could be simpler.
Re: Switching from Chrome to Firefox
#237Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm not entirely certain this is true. Maybe at one point it was, but nowadays since signing into any Google site signs you into Chrome, a lot of folks have their work and personal email addresses as profiles in Chrome.
Most people just don't troll on hn all day and don't do personnal stuff on their work computer. We are a different kind. I know a lot of people who are afraid of possibly be fired for logging on their webmail with their work computer. Additionnaly virtually everybody owns a smartphone which is used for the personnal stuff.
I wish you were right, but that's simply not the case.
Re: Switching from Chrome to Firefox
#238Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm not entirely certain this is true. Maybe at one point it was, but nowadays since signing into any Google site signs you into Chrome, a lot of folks have their work and personal email addresses as profiles in Chrome.
You guys don't just use different browsers for this :D? I've got Firefox, Opera and Chrome and each one has different logins :D gotta be honest, didn't even know Chrome and FF can also do that!
I do, but your common office drone isn't even aware that there are options.
Re: Switching from Chrome to Firefox
#239This part makes me smile :
I am not a tab hoarder, I almost never have more than **15** of them open at the same time.Re: Switching from Chrome to Firefox
#240I was so annoyed when Firefox got rid of the Proton tab style. Glad to see I can turn it back on!