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Fuck It, I'm Going Back to Firefox

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Re: Fuck It, I'm Going Back to Firefox

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Post by mattchew »

I'd like to switch back to Firefox, but they do not support inverted colors like Chrome does.

Hacker Vision on Chrome is sooooo good. The closest I've found for Firefox is Color Toggle, but it fails in a lot of places, enough that FF+CT is not usable as my main browser.

(This difference might be laid at the feet of the plugin writers, but I have the idea that there is inversion support available in the browser in Chrome but not in FF.)

Unfortunately, after getting used to Hacker Vision, good color inversion is a must-have feature for me.

Re: Fuck It, I'm Going Back to Firefox

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Post by galvan »

theVirginian wrote: post #61

The worst part about chrome for me is that I can't access my Gmail accounts through Chrome. That's right, I have to use Firefox to access Google's own product because Chrome won't play nice with my school Google Apps account that my school provided us for email. Whenever I try to get to my school account it redirects to the gmail account I used to sign into Chrome - this happens regardless of whether I try to access…

What if you manually go to the GApps URL? (https://mail.google.com/a/your.school.mail.domain.here) I assume that's what your school's website is probably linking to, but it's worth a shot.

Re: Fuck It, I'm Going Back to Firefox

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Post by Djonckheere »

api wrote: post #65
nvk wrote: post #7

The biggest issue I have with Chrome is how aggressive it's been about linking Google IDs with the browser. I've lost data twice by bugs related to not having a linked ID. Please Google, understand this; I don't want my browser linked with my Google account.

"Please Google, understand this; I don't want my browser linked with my Google account." But that's their entire business model.

hahahaha! Great response. Yes, mass digital surveillance or mass collection of data if you like. This is arguably Google's hidden agenda and perhaps the most compelling reason to dump Chrome aside from performance issues.

Re: Fuck It, I'm Going Back to Firefox

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Post by Gracana »

johnward wrote: post #127
theVirginian wrote: post #61

The worst part about chrome for me is that I can't access my Gmail accounts through Chrome. That's right, I have to use Firefox to access Google's own product because Chrome won't play nice with my school Google Apps account that my school provided us for email. Whenever I try to get to my school account it redirects to the gmail account I used to sign into Chrome - this happens regardless of whether I try to access…

Click your user icon. Click add account. Add school account. Now you can use both.

That's what I have to do (over and over and over and over again) to make it work. I wish it would stay connected, but at least it works.

Re: Fuck It, I'm Going Back to Firefox

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Post by yellowapple »

jcoffland wrote: post #245
FilterJoe wrote: post #177

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The problem is using many open tabs with Chrome. If you use no more than 3 or 4 tabs, Chrome is generally fine. If you use more than that, Firefox has some built-in features to help with tabs such as delayed tab loading and tab grouping. It also has more and better extensions for helping with multiple tabs. Furthermore, it doesn't launch a new process for each tab. In a browser comparison I wrote last month, I includ…

I regularly have several hundred tabs open in Firefox with no problems. Some people may think this is crazy or messy but I find it very useful for organizing the various projects I'm working on for different clients and my own personal projects. Tab groups and delayed loading make it all very smooth. Such usage is just not possible with Chrome. I tried to switch to Chrome but couldn't find the features I needed and d…

I do the same thing; it's incredibly easy to do with the Tree View Tabs extension.

For example, while browsing HN, I'll frequently just middle-click a bunch of article links and (occasionally) their comments, then read them once I have a sizable queue. Same goes for trying to look up documentation to fix some bug in my code; I'll start with a DuckDuckGo search and, suddenly, I have at least a dozen (sometimes multiple dozens) tabs open with Stack Overflow questions and blog posts and official online docs and such with clues pointing me in the right direction.

Re: Fuck It, I'm Going Back to Firefox

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Post by engendered »

gvb wrote: post #15

I read the article hoping for something insightful, but when I read the paragraph ...a half-dozen tabs that auto-open on launch thanks to the dozens of extensions I've accumulated over the years[...] I had to stop and say "wait, what?" To leverage his analogy that it is like coming home to a new house to find that most of your stuff is already there, it is like not cleaning your house and not taking out the trash for…

I had to stop and say "wait, what?"

To be fair, much of the huffing and puffing "I'm leaving Firefox...Chrome is so much better!" was based upon the same sort of rhetoric. Early on Chrome didn't even have extensions, much less bloated monstrosities like Ad Block Plus and Firebug (don't get me wrong -- they both are fantastic, but most don't realize how incredibly onerous they are). So those people kicked Firefox to the curb and talked about how grand everything was with Chrome. Now that Chrome has an ecosystem, they put themselves in the same situation again.

Re: Fuck It, I'm Going Back to Firefox

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Post by baby »

FilterJoe wrote: post #177
gvb wrote: post #15

I read the article hoping for something insightful, but when I read the paragraph ...a half-dozen tabs that auto-open on launch thanks to the dozens of extensions I've accumulated over the years[...] I had to stop and say "wait, what?" To leverage his analogy that it is like coming home to a new house to find that most of your stuff is already there, it is like not cleaning your house and not taking out the trash for…

The problem is using many open tabs with Chrome. If you use no more than 3 or 4 tabs, Chrome is generally fine. If you use more than that, Firefox has some built-in features to help with tabs such as delayed tab loading and tab grouping. It also has more and better extensions for helping with multiple tabs. Furthermore, it doesn't launch a new process for each tab. In a browser comparison I wrote last month, I includ…

> It also has more and better extensions for helping with multiple tabs.

Exactly. Tree Style Tab being the biggest reason I've never switched to Chrome.

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