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Something I didn't find mentioning is increasing the number of parallel connections in Firefox. When I inspect the network and responses of FF, I often find connections were "blocked" (for several hundreds ms). Thus, increasing the number of persistent connections to a server will unblock those connections and allow the website to render much faster. Go to about:config and change: network.http.max-persistent-connecti…
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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)
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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.
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> 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)
Type about:profiles in the address bar, and then you're one click away from both of your questions.
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Type about:profiles in the address bar, and then you're one click away from both of your questions.
And that's the point: No normal user will ever discover that feature
They either get hinted by someone else about “some cool feature”, or do a Google search if they know what they're looking for.