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This is a killer feature for me. Last time I used chrome it supported "pulling" tabs between devices but not "pushing". It seems like a minor difference but it really improves the UX for me. Often I am reading something on my phone but get interrupted so just fire it to my desktop. This is much better for me than remembering that I wanted to finish something and then find it in my list of tabs.
Opposite experience here. Long time Firefox user and in the past 3 years it's gotten incredibly bad for me as sites have gone more JS heavy, and video in particular has become a huge problem for my Firefox install it seems. Major sites like Youtube (~25% of videos get an error, forcing me to open in chrome), Reddit (yeah this one sucks for everyone, but at least loads on chrome if you have a high end pc+connection, w…
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Where does Safari have vertical tabs? I've been using Orion for a while now mainly for that feature, a WebKit browser with well working vertical tabs.
View > Sidebar On the left, it should show the number of tabs in the current window. If you click on that, it lists the tabs.
Opposite experience here. Long time Firefox user and in the past 3 years it's gotten incredibly bad for me as sites have gone more JS heavy, and video in particular has become a huge problem for my Firefox install it seems. Major sites like Youtube (~25% of videos get an error, forcing me to open in chrome), Reddit (yeah this one sucks for everyone, but at least loads on chrome if you have a high end pc+connection, w…
This doesn't really sound like a FireFox problem. Not sure how it could be their fault that installing extensions which intentionally disable parts of the browser required to run the websites you use breaks things. Literally none of those websites ever have any problems on any of the computers my family uses FF on, running UBlock Origin.
Firefox was my main browser on Mac for years, but a year or two ago it got demoted to secondary primarily because of one issue: spelling. I just found myself spending too much time when writing anything in Firefox dealing with false positives in its spell checker [1]. I still have no idea why it has so many false positives. They use the same open source spell checker that LibreOffice, Chrome, and MacOS use, and none…
Firefox is my primary browser at present but definitely has annoyances: - unable to close pinned tabs without custom extensions - unable to undo close open tabs after closing last window (also solved with extension) - pins itself to taskbar and install desktop icon on every install - I prefer how downloads' progress is handled in Chrome better - Not all settings are synchronized (esp. around privacy), making it very…
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dont know what kind of googling prodigies you are, but I googled 'first browser with tabs' and it says the InternetWorks Browser was the first
They’re not googling. Google is useful but sometimes has incorrect answers. The truth is we probably won’t know the true first browser with tabs. It could have been before the one you found. These people are saying “I personally used browser Z with tabs before your example Browser A was even released”. If enough people continue the chain, we’ll get to “the oldest tabbed browser that anyone on HN remembers using”. The…
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Interesting, I haven't run into it as upto now and I was checking some pretty cool and intense CodePens earlier. I'll look into some threeJS demos to see how it goes (ex. https://bruno-simon.com/ ). Are there any other specific JS demos you've had a bad experience with?
That 3D website ( https://bruno-simon.com/ ) ran well enough though it did cause my laptop's fans to run but I believe that happens in Chrome too. So far, I haven't found much of a difference in performance of websites but it's still early times for me.
