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I did that about a month ago, after more than 10 years with Chrome only. So far so good, apart from battery usage on Android. I sometimes feel it spirals when too many tabs are left open. Desktop, no problem. I have kept Chrome for my work stuff, because I want 100% efficiency / no delay due to my tech choices and I work on a SaaS tool primarily targeting Chrome. I still think Chrome is better when it comes to poweri…
I did that about a month ago, after more than 10 years with Chrome only. So far so good, apart from battery usage on Android. I sometimes feel it spirals when too many tabs are left open. Desktop, no problem. I have kept Chrome for my work stuff, because I want 100% efficiency / no delay due to my tech choices and I work on a SaaS tool primarily targeting Chrome. I still think Chrome is better when it comes to poweri…
> The real question for me is, besides privacy, what is the killer feature that will / does make it obvious to switch to Firefox? Preventing the web from devolving into a closed garden. For this we need alternative browser engines and hence Brave does not make the cut. Other than that, containers are a pretty useful tool that's so far Firefox only.
I am on FF but i miss having one profile for work and one profile for personal use that i used to have with chrome.
I am on FF but i miss having one profile for work and one profile for personal use that i used to have with chrome.
I have been using Firefox for a few months and I’ve noticed browsers on Windows are far slower than on Mac (despite much faster hardware). Is that normal / happening to you as well? Firefox on Windows seems noticeably slower than Chrome. (Any page from entering address to seeing content feels ridiculously slow) I still use it for privacy, but I wonder if there is something I could do to speed it up.
Open the cpu performance tab of task manager and set a page to reload every few seconds.
I don’t know why that happens or how to make it stop.
my biggest grows come from the omnibar, it still has a heck of a trouble guessing what's a search and what's a domain, the sorting out partial matches feels weird because bookmarks aren't prominent and there's no promotion of URLs entered Vs useless navigated toward and three default click action (append to bottom of the URL) might be fine if you are a developer but it's not for the most part what I want as a user.
edit: thanks all for the suggestions
edit2: imagine being so committed into a browser religion to downvote facts
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It just doesn't have usable profile switching. Sounds like something a competent engineer should be able to implement in a week, yet users have been begging for it for a decade and it's still not there. This is the only thing that holds me on Chrome.
try about:profiles
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multi-account...
I am on FF but i miss having one profile for work and one profile for personal use that i used to have with chrome.
You need the containers extension. It's better than Chrome profiles.
I am still missing chrome-like profiles
Have you tried Multi-Account Containers? It’s not the same but for me it works (I want to be logged in with various accounts on the same website)