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Re: Switching from Chrome to Firefox

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Post by ambrop7 »

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…

Two more about.config:

- gfx.webrender.all = true (important on Linux, fixes jerky scrolling)

- general.smoothScroll.mouseWheel.durationMaxMS = 200 (makes mouse scroll animation faster)

Re: Switching from Chrome to Firefox

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Post by ambrop7 »

LukaD wrote: post #199
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…

The absolute worst default setting for me is smooth scrolling enabled.

See my sibling comment, that should make it much better.

Re: Switching from Chrome to Firefox

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Post by sadness2 »

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…

I don't do any of those things, and I find the experience nice. These are pretty specific customizations.

Re: Switching from Chrome to Firefox

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Post by CTOSian »

ilikepi wrote: post #229
wfdctrl wrote: post #216

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You can set these settings using a user.js file, so you don't have to reconfigure everything over and over again.

Yep, if you don't want to use Sync, user.js is an alternative. It's also helpful for sharing settings across multiple profiles. (For the latter, I do wish there was support for including other files...) There is a user.js project on github[1] maintained by ghacks.net community members that provides a source of documentation for many settings. It's also useful as a way to monitor new and deprecated settings. [1]: http…

thanks for this!! Hope this will solve my main annoyance with Firefox: sometimes I change Linux distro and then I lose all of my firefox settings, ("sync" would be better and keep flags changed by the users, but I don't think that the FF devs bother about it)

Re: Switching from Chrome to Firefox

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Post by techntoke »

newscracker wrote: post #279
techntoke wrote: post #267

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Or evangelize Chromium, which is faster and less buggy. Also better supported on Linux.

Chromium dances to Google’s tunes. I don’t see any reason to use or support Chromium, especially with things like Manifest V3 coming in the future and disabling extensions like uBlock Origin. A fork of it that makes it very different from Chrome, perhaps. But not Chromium as is or Chrome.

Chrome never disabled uBlock Origin. They are making changes to an API and have been open to feedback to ensure adblockers continue to work. The whole propaganda campaign that Chrome was disabling ad-blockers was practically ran by Mozilla itself. I recall however, shortly after Mozilla forgot to renew their certificate and all my extensions in Firefox got disabled, and it took well over a day for a fix. Meanwhile, uBlock continued to work fine in Chromium.

Re: Switching from Chrome to Firefox

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Post by zipperhead »

cassianoleal wrote: post #126
philshem wrote: post #38

For those new and old to Firefox, check out the new-ish privacy feature “multi-account containers” https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multi-account...

I use that extensively. On top of it, I use Temporary Containers [0] and pretty much run each tab on its own temp container to further reduce tracking. For stuff that I want sessions to survive, I open them in specific multi-account containers. [0] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/temporary-con...

Hmm, I've been using a combination of multi-account containers and Cookie AutoDelete [0]. I'm going to try temporary containers out - it should have a broader protection coverage than just deleting cookies.

[0] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/cookie-autode...

Re: Switching from Chrome to Firefox

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Post by livueta »

zachwood wrote: post #88
sam_goody wrote: post #74

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I am a heavy tab user as well (sometimes crawling above 500) and have found Firefox MUCH better than Chrome. Way, incomparably much better. Better memory and usability of computer (Chrome lugs and lags and my iMac and Macbook). Normal tabs instead of vanishingly small tabs. All my tabs on restart (Chrome has several times been unable to recover tabs on a restart over the past few years) and quick restart. And, though…

How do you use this workflow? Do you ever get around to those 500 tabs? Whenever I get to ~30 I feel like it's time to figure out what my focus actually is and I'm always so baffled by people that operate like you do.

Not them, but with my usual work pattern it is really easy to end up with hundreds to thousands of tabs.

New issue? New i3 workspace with a new ff window and a new tmux session, which each accumulate tabs related to that issue. Workspaces can live for weeks or months and while each instance of ff rarely grows beyond 50 tabs, scale that across 10 workspaces and you've got a lot of tabs.

Yes, the 32gb ram in my work-workstation gets a workout.

Re: Switching from Chrome to Firefox

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Post by m0zg »

kaolabear wrote: post #285
m0zg wrote: post #282

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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.

Or I could just, you know, continue using Chrome.
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