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Re: Switching from Chrome to Firefox

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Post by mrmuagi »

stiray wrote: post #237
ajphdiv wrote: post #231

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sync can also be self hosted. https://github.com/mozilla-services/syncserver

I love firefox but this is one hell of an annoyance I would beat author with a large trump. A hellofablob of dependencies etc. Like it was deliberately build to not self host it (and no I dont want docker). I really really really hate it for almost 10 years. There was a project rewritting it in go but was abandoned and probably the next thing I will develop will be a replacement .

Given it's written in python 2.7, it's due for a rewrite if I understand.

Re: Switching from Chrome to Firefox

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Post by m0zg »

matsemann wrote: post #154
m0zg wrote: post #150

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They do not allow for complete separation of "work" and "personal" internet. They literally show both in the same window.

I consider that a feature. Nothing stops you from only using a single and different container per window, though.

I consider that an epic fail. The last thing I want is to confuse the two, or to have to laboriously manually separate tabs into windows. That's not to mention that I also don't want to share the passwords between the two profiles either.

What's the most frustrating is Firefox already has multiple profile support. All it's missing is an ergonomic way to switch and manage the profiles.

Re: Switching from Chrome to Firefox

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Post by jdashg »

inetknght wrote: post #67
keyP wrote: post #59

I switched to FF for my daily driver almost a year ago on my Windows machine and haven't looked back. Previously FF had too many performance issues but since each tab is run in a separate process, it's been just as good as Chrome (not so much on OSX however, I still use Chrome there). The other advantage of FF for me, besides Pocket, is that I can share and send pages with FF on Android which has support for ad-block…

I wish Pocket didn't come enabled by default. It's intrusive spyware. Edit: It's information leaks for advertisements. I switched from Chrome to Firefox to get away from advertisement empires. Having to manually disable Pocket to do that leaves a sour note.

Pocket very carefully avoids leaking information. It's cleverly done.

Re: Switching from Chrome to Firefox

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Post by stevenicr »

I have to use chrome on one device, and the only thing I like about it is that it will warn you when you try to download the same thing a second time - this would nice in firefox maybe.. saving web pages, or mp4 files - chrome will pop up with "again?" or something.

Re: Switching from Chrome to Firefox

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Post by kaolabear »

m0zg wrote: post #282
matsemann wrote: post #154

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I consider that a feature. Nothing stops you from only using a single and different container per window, though.

I consider that an epic fail. The last thing I want is to confuse the two, or to have to laboriously manually separate tabs into windows. That's not to mention that I also don't want to share the passwords between the two profiles either. What's the most frustrating is Firefox already has multiple profile support. All it's missing is an ergonomic way to switch and manage the profiles.

You can have two desktop shortcuts with different icons that start the browser with different profiles. With different profiles you can make the browser windows have very different customized looks and differnt profiles also have separate password storages.

Re: Switching from Chrome to Firefox

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Post by jamesog »

HunOL wrote: post #176
jamesog wrote: post #166

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I like the idea of multi-account containers, but I'm very used to Chrome's way of having separate profiles. With MAC you get tabs for different containers mixed up in the same window and the URL history is shared. I prefer the profiles approach where everything - extensions, history, etc. - is all nicely segregated. Firefox does have profiles, but there's still no good UI for managing them.

I am using Firefox with profiles for years (maybe even decade). Run Firefox from command line with -P flag to start profile manager or -p to run particular profile. Rest is matter of shortcut/custom icons to launch.

Proving my point that there's no _good_ UI for managing profiles with Firefox. And no, about:profiles doesn't count. Chrome makes it nice and easy and obvious.

Re: Switching from Chrome to Firefox

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Post by paulddraper »

stiray wrote: post #237
ajphdiv wrote: post #231

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sync can also be self hosted. https://github.com/mozilla-services/syncserver

I love firefox but this is one hell of an annoyance I would beat author with a large trump. A hellofablob of dependencies etc. Like it was deliberately build to not self host it (and no I dont want docker). I really really really hate it for almost 10 years. There was a project rewritting it in go but was abandoned and probably the next thing I will develop will be a replacement .

> and no I dont want docker

Forgive me, but it sounds like you just want to be unhappy about the distribution, because that solves your problem pretty well.

Re: Switching from Chrome to Firefox

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Post by paulddraper »

mschuetz wrote: post #219
thibran wrote: post #175

Firefox is nice. But over time there are more and more things I need to configure to get a "good" browser experience. Things I do: - about:preferences#general > Startup > restore previous session - about:preferences#general > Tabs > uncheck Ctrl+Tab cycle ... - about:preferences#general > Downloads > always ask where to save - about:preferences#home > Firefox Home Content > disable all except Top Sites - about:prefer…

> - about:preferences#general > Downloads > always ask where to save I hate the default behaviour so much. What's wrong with asking me where to save the file? I almost certainly have a place in mind where the file should go.

Half the time I actually just want to open the thing but don't give a damn where it goes.

The other half the time I want it to go somewhere, but I'm not in love with using a GUI file explorer to get it there.

Re: Switching from Chrome to Firefox

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Post by paulddraper »

philshem wrote: post #178
austhrow743 wrote: post #155

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Is it possible to have a different vpn for each container?

aren't VPNs across the entire network connection? (so not specific to the browser)

There are some browser extension VPNs. So they are specific to the browser.
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