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Re: How to Firefox

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Post by Liquid_Fire »

leoapagano wrote: post #168
pritambaral wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Firefox has no profiles. Patently false. Been using profiles for years. > bunch of hacks, such as containers, which are cumbersome to use. Firefox's "solution" forces you to switch Github tabs between personal and work containers constantly. Rarely have I had to that. Until I added rules to open certain URLs in specific containers. > Chromium provides separate windows with different profiles, and Firefox should fol…

Firefox's "answer" to profiles is to run essentially two (or more) copies of the browser rather than only copying the profile-specific parts of each profile. This leads to a lot of wasted CPU cycles and RAM and is a very suboptimal solution compared to what Chromium and Safari do these days, not to mention that the ability to create and switch profiles is not included in the UI by default and requires an extension to…

I think you may be mixing up profiles and containers.

Profiles do have a built-in UI at about:profiles or by launching Firefox with -P, neither of which requires an extension. Admittedly this UI is a bit basic, but a better version is being rolled out (https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profile-management). Running multiple profiles side by side does indeed involve running multiple instances of the browser.

Containers are an internal API and need an extension like Multi-account Containers to provide a GUI (though this is an official extension by Mozilla), however they don't require running multiple copies of the browser.

Re: How to Firefox

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Post by ReadCarlBarks »

akazantsev wrote: post #115
arp242 wrote: post #86

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You can use "firefox -ProfileManager". I didn't even know about about:profiles. There is some work on improving the UI: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profile-management Anyway, your claim was "Firefox has no profiles". That is not true.

Really? Then you can claim that Chrome has supported "profiles" since its inception, with the `--user-data-dir` command-line switch. If something is not user-visible, it is as good as non-existent. Firefox has no profiles as far as a regular user is concerned.

The new profile manager has already been enabled for most users.

If you don't see it in the main menu yet, type `about:config` into the address bar and toggle `browser.profiles.enabled`.

Re: How to Firefox

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Post by mook »

moffkalast wrote: post #207
giancarlostoro wrote: post #129

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I'm about the same, I don't even know what the loading speeds issue is about, I still remember Firefox Quantum beating the daylights out of Chrome, and I don't know if Chrome ever fully caught up to Quantum? What's really funny is for ages Chrome would load the browser window even if the whole browser UI wasn't done loading, and sometime after Quantum, Firefox started doing the same trick to make you feel as though i…

What I've found recently is that Linux is surprisingly Firefox's achilles' heel. Canvas and WebGL run easily an order of magnitude slower than Chromium. Check with https://webglsamples.org if you don't believe it. All of it runs capped at 60 fps on Chrome for me, Firefox struggles to break 30 on mid tier settings in aquarium and stutters horribly throughout most of them. I'm sure it's fast at loading static sites, bu…

I note that the GitHub org has two public members, one of which is from Google: https://github.com/orgs/WebGLSamples/people

Google's been doing advocacy where they do things that either only work on Chrome or just magically works faster there, for a very long time.

Re: How to Firefox

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Post by thinkingtoilet »

the__alchemist wrote: post #173
thinkingtoilet wrote: post #132

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>I've never felt impeded by loading speeds I honestly think it's just something people here like to complain about. It's a complete non-issue. No everyday web experience is even close to being noticeably different. Full stop. It's almost like a meme, people say it because they think they should say it. I would ask those people that are complaining, what are you doing with all those extra milliseconds you claim you're…

I can't answer your question directly, as I haven't experienced Firefox problems in a few years. In the past, I experienced regular hangs and crashes. There are a few point to unpacck here: - Qualifying a statement with "Full stop" is a thought-terminating cliche. - Due to the different hardware, operating systems, and use cases people have, peoples' experience, and the problems they encounter vary between users of P…

I've used Firefox with on Windows, iOS, and various linux distributions with absolutely no day to day issues.

Re: How to Firefox

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Post by doph »

moffkalast wrote: post #207
giancarlostoro wrote: post #129

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm about the same, I don't even know what the loading speeds issue is about, I still remember Firefox Quantum beating the daylights out of Chrome, and I don't know if Chrome ever fully caught up to Quantum? What's really funny is for ages Chrome would load the browser window even if the whole browser UI wasn't done loading, and sometime after Quantum, Firefox started doing the same trick to make you feel as though i…

What I've found recently is that Linux is surprisingly Firefox's achilles' heel. Canvas and WebGL run easily an order of magnitude slower than Chromium. Check with https://webglsamples.org if you don't believe it. All of it runs capped at 60 fps on Chrome for me, Firefox struggles to break 30 on mid tier settings in aquarium and stutters horribly throughout most of them. I'm sure it's fast at loading static sites, bu…

I didn't believe it and after trying those samples, I still don't. All of them run flawlessly for me on FF 104.0.4 on an up-to-date Arch install on my laptop.

Re: How to Firefox

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Post by thinkingtoilet »

rs186 wrote: post #169
thinkingtoilet wrote: post #132

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>I've never felt impeded by loading speeds I honestly think it's just something people here like to complain about. It's a complete non-issue. No everyday web experience is even close to being noticeably different. Full stop. It's almost like a meme, people say it because they think they should say it. I would ask those people that are complaining, what are you doing with all those extra milliseconds you claim you're…

When you have web pages that that completely freeze the Firefox browser but work smoothly on Chrome, you won't call it non-issue.

Name one.

Re: How to Firefox

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Post by ReadCarlBarks »

Liquid_Fire wrote: post #261
leoapagano wrote: post #168

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Firefox's "answer" to profiles is to run essentially two (or more) copies of the browser rather than only copying the profile-specific parts of each profile. This leads to a lot of wasted CPU cycles and RAM and is a very suboptimal solution compared to what Chromium and Safari do these days, not to mention that the ability to create and switch profiles is not included in the UI by default and requires an extension to…

I think you may be mixing up profiles and containers. Profiles do have a built-in UI at about:profiles or by launching Firefox with -P, neither of which requires an extension. Admittedly this UI is a bit basic, but a better version is being rolled out ( https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profile-management ). Running multiple profiles side by side does indeed involve running multiple instances of the browser. Conta…

The new profile manager has already been enabled for most users.

If you don't see it in the main menu yet, type `about:config` into the address bar and toggle `browser.profiles.enabled`.

Re: How to Firefox

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Post by ReadCarlBarks »

leoapagano wrote: post #168
pritambaral wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Firefox has no profiles. Patently false. Been using profiles for years. > bunch of hacks, such as containers, which are cumbersome to use. Firefox's "solution" forces you to switch Github tabs between personal and work containers constantly. Rarely have I had to that. Until I added rules to open certain URLs in specific containers. > Chromium provides separate windows with different profiles, and Firefox should fol…

Firefox's "answer" to profiles is to run essentially two (or more) copies of the browser rather than only copying the profile-specific parts of each profile. This leads to a lot of wasted CPU cycles and RAM and is a very suboptimal solution compared to what Chromium and Safari do these days, not to mention that the ability to create and switch profiles is not included in the UI by default and requires an extension to…

The new profile manager has already been enabled for most users.

If you don't see it in the main menu yet, type `about:config` into the address bar and toggle `browser.profiles.enabled`.

Re: How to Firefox

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Post by sorcercode »

navigate8310 wrote: post #63
thoroughburro wrote: post #2

> Here’s something the iPhone isn’t getting anytime soon: honest-to-god browser extensions that you use on your desktop, also on your phone. This convinces me the author is not knowledgeable about current browser capabilities. They probably haven’t tried anything but Firefox in a long time. Orion runs desktop (Firefox) extensions on iOS, and is in many ways a breath of fresh air. Instead of parroting “all iOS browser…

The author definitely is not being very knowledgeable. In the comments, they didn't try Zen because they assumed, it can't sync bookmarks and extensions, which in fact it can and has Mozilla account baked into it.

yep that's something I learned later.

fwiw though: Zen does have other challenges at the moment with the Widevine licence. so you effectively can't use it to watch most video services today.

But point taken, from a technical accuracy perspective.

Re: How to Firefox

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Post by ReadCarlBarks »

aheckler wrote: post #133
nxtbl wrote: post #98

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from TFA: Filter lists update only when the extension updates, no fetching up to date lists from servers (this is a big one!) No custom filters, so no element picker which allows you to point and zap Many filters are dropped at conversion time due to MV3’s limited filter syntax No strict-blocked pages No per-site switches No dynamic filtering No importing external lists

> No custom filters, so no element picker which allows you to point and zap > No per-site switches These aren't accurate. My version of uBOL in Chrome (2025.718.1921) has these features.

You're either not using uBlock Origin Lite or do not know what the "per-site switches" are: https://github.com/gorhill/ublock/wiki/Per-site-switches
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