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Choose Firefox Now, Or Later You Won't Get A Choice (2014)

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Re: Choose Firefox Now, Or Later You Won't Get A Choice (2014)

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Post by Yetanfou »

majewsky wrote: post #218
Yetanfou wrote: post #209

I've been using Gecko-based browsers for... well, more or less since Gecko became a viable alternative to its predecessor (whatever the rendering engine in Netscape Communicator was called). I sometimes use Chromium for sites which insist on using a webkit/blink-based browser but I never stick around them for the simple reason that sites look better on Gecko than they do on Webkit/Blink, mostly due to (in my opinion)…

> sites which insist on using a webkit/blink-based browser Does a user-agent switcher addon not help?

Sometimes it does, sometimes - when the site targets some feature which is implemented in webkit/blink - it does not.

Re: Choose Firefox Now, Or Later You Won't Get A Choice (2014)

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Post by Wubdidu »

Yetanfou wrote: post #240
Wubdidu wrote: post #216

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Huh? I'm still running my own sync server and it was really easy to setup. https://docs.services.mozilla.com/howtos/run-sync-1.5.html Working fine with Firefox on macOS and Android. You can even setup the authentication server, but I didn't see why I'd need that. Having the data on my own server is enough for me.

It is still possible to hack 'old' sync accounts into nightly builds but this will soon disappear as well. The Android version does not support 'old' sync accounts any more.

I'm confused… I assume "'new' sync" means Sync-1.5 in your context, right? Where is the issue with using Sync-1.5? It works completely fine for me.

Re: Choose Firefox Now, Or Later You Won't Get A Choice (2014)

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Post by bigzen »

rubyn00bie wrote: post #97

Daily Firefox user here. Switched back from Chrome a couple years ago and haven't looked back. Just seeing the comments here exasperates me... So for those who don't know, the Internet is heavily biased towards Chrome. Simple pages that should render no differently in FF than Chrome are often broken. This "Chrome is great, screw everything else" attitude is exactly how we ended up with IE and stagnation in standards/…

Chrome tends to perform better than Firefox handsdown on my 2015 mbPro.

I went back and tried both the developer edition and the stable release after seeing this post because I want to move away from google as much as possible. But the fact of the matter is that in the hour I was attempting to use firefox I saw the OsX spinning wheel about 20 times. I have never once seen it while using chrome. This killed it for me immediately.

(Notes. I had GPU acceleration turned on, and nearly 6 gigs of free memory.)

Re: Choose Firefox Now, Or Later You Won't Get A Choice (2014)

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Post by avryhof »

amelius wrote: post #167
rubyn00bie wrote: post #97

Daily Firefox user here. Switched back from Chrome a couple years ago and haven't looked back. Just seeing the comments here exasperates me... So for those who don't know, the Internet is heavily biased towards Chrome. Simple pages that should render no differently in FF than Chrome are often broken. This "Chrome is great, screw everything else" attitude is exactly how we ended up with IE and stagnation in standards/…

My personal biggest problem with FF is that it uses too much screen real estate compared to Chrome. For example, the tabs are really fat, and the address bar is much thicker, leaving less space for actual content. Perhaps FF should include a "look-like-chromium" option to win over users (since chromium is open-source, I guess they will not run into copyright issues there).

The only thing that makes Firefox take up more than Chrome for me is the Web Developer toolbar. Aside from that, I use the bookmark bar on both, and they are exactly the same height.

* Disclaimer: I use Cinnamon Desktop on Ubuntu with the Numix theme. Other themes/Window Managers might be different.

Re: Choose Firefox Now, Or Later You Won't Get A Choice (2014)

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Post by sctb »

4minute wrote: post #6

Maybe these other browsers should stop being complete shit and maybe I will. You want to know why people pick Google products? Because they work and they work well with each other. The only people that don't like Google are tech people that write stupid blogs like this. Sorry, but the general population doesn't give a fuck if Google does any of this. They just want products that work. They don't even give a fuck abou…

You don't need to call names like this to present an argument here, and the guidelines ask us not to.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Re: Choose Firefox Now, Or Later You Won't Get A Choice (2014)

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Post by nyordanov »

_phaq wrote: post #231
nyordanov wrote: post #204

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I also switched from Chrome to Firefox about a year ago and the fat tabs are the only thing that I don't like. The removal of `browser.tabs.tabMinWidth` is very annoying (now you need to create a new CSS file in your profile directory, but there is hardly any documentation for that). Also, 15px of the total tab width are taken by ellipses when the tab title is truncated. There are add-ons which claim to fix that, but…

Ellipsis will take up less space from Firefox 53 onwards: https://blog.nightly.mozilla.org/2016/12/20/these-weeks-in-f... As for the CSS-file, you have to create a folder called "chrome" in your profile folder and then in that folder create a file "userChrome.css". In that file, you have to have the following line at the top of everything else: "@namespace url(" http://www.mozilla.org/keymaster/gatekeeper/there.is.on…

That's good news, I've missed that.

Does userChrome.css work with e10s? I remember that there were some issues with that in the past.

Re: Choose Firefox Now, Or Later You Won't Get A Choice (2014)

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Post by majewsky »

y4mi wrote: post #237
majewsky wrote: post #215

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I suppose that requires root access?

hostfile yes, dns no [pihole]( https://pi-hole.net/ ) is a project aimed only at that niche.

I know, I have something like that in my home network. But that doesn't help when I'm in the office or somewhere else.

Re: Choose Firefox Now, Or Later You Won't Get A Choice (2014)

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Post by TheSpiceIsLife »

midgetjones wrote: post #119
rubyn00bie wrote: post #97

Daily Firefox user here. Switched back from Chrome a couple years ago and haven't looked back. Just seeing the comments here exasperates me... So for those who don't know, the Internet is heavily biased towards Chrome. Simple pages that should render no differently in FF than Chrome are often broken. This "Chrome is great, screw everything else" attitude is exactly how we ended up with IE and stagnation in standards/…

So much this. It just seems like everyone repeats the "Chrome is better and Firefox is slow" mantra without spending a couple of days trying Firefox. It's a browser owned by an advertising company. An advertising company that knows a lot about you, and constantly strives to learn more by whatever nefarious means they can think of. I can't see how anyone is okay with that.

Because it's faster.*

The day I can open Firefox and it feels as snappy as Chrome I'll switch back to Firefox.

* Opinion of one blue-collar worker.

Re: Choose Firefox Now, Or Later You Won't Get A Choice (2014)

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Post by zipperhead »

pvinis wrote: post #205
amelius wrote: post #167

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My personal biggest problem with FF is that it uses too much screen real estate compared to Chrome. For example, the tabs are really fat, and the address bar is much thicker, leaving less space for actual content. Perhaps FF should include a "look-like-chromium" option to win over users (since chromium is open-source, I guess they will not run into copyright issues there).

you can use this https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/thintabs/ or even better tab bar on the left with this https://testpilot.firefox.com/experiments/tab-center .

Personally, I can't do without Tree Style Tabs: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tree-style-ta...
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