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Reasons to ditch Chrome and use Firefox

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Re: Reasons to ditch Chrome and use Firefox

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Post by gurjeet »

zelphirkalt wrote: post #101
haunter wrote: post #21

>Automatic blocking of autoplay videos And then this very site has an automatic playing video in the article lmao Also a lot of these claims are so-so imo. "Lighter on system resources" "Speedier website browsing" I usually have 60-70 tabs open across 5-6 windows. Firefox absolutely shits itself all the time but Chromium doesn't. Anyways I use ungoogled-chromium https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium

yawn I am a declared tab horder, with 500+ tabs open and Firefox shows no sign of any slowdown. Try that with Chromium derivates. In my experience Firefox outclasses Chromium based browsers for such a workload.

I'm way ahead of you there, and I'm _not_ proud of it.

My 'Tab counter' add-on tells me:

    Tabs in this window: 3221
    Tabs in all windows: 3301 (I think this is because of a bug)
    Number of windows: 6

Re: Reasons to ditch Chrome and use Firefox

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Post by alpaca128 »

haunter wrote: post #21

>Automatic blocking of autoplay videos And then this very site has an automatic playing video in the article lmao Also a lot of these claims are so-so imo. "Lighter on system resources" "Speedier website browsing" I usually have 60-70 tabs open across 5-6 windows. Firefox absolutely shits itself all the time but Chromium doesn't. Anyways I use ungoogled-chromium https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium

Meanwhile I usually have 1000-2000 tabs open in Firefox and it doesn't slow down at all, while Chrome made the whole system slow down to a concerning degree with less than 100 tabs.

Re: Reasons to ditch Chrome and use Firefox

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Post by clairity »

cassepipe wrote: post #275
cdrini wrote: post #241

One unique Firefox feature I love that I don't see talked about often is how awesome Firefox's address bar suggestions are. I can type just a snippet of a URL or a web page title and it'll instantly show me all matching URLs I've visited, whether on my desktop or on my phone. It's become my primary second brain for finding Google docs, or articles I've read, or GitHub issues. It's usually only a few characters before…

It gets much better when you disable search suggestions then you only have results from your browsing history/bookmarks. And in the end if you get no results you just launch a search anyways. There was a way to configure the relative weight of boomarks/history but I can't find it anymore. Also worthy of notice, if you start with * in the search bar you only get bookmarks results and with ^ you get history results. Fi…

that's what i do too, disable suggestions so everything i type doesn't get sent to $searchEngine. i also make use of a few keywords for my most frequently visited sites (like 'hn' for hacker news) so that my keywords always override firefox's dynamic suggestions in case of any conflicts.

i just learned about the ^ % * prefixes a few months ago, and now use them all the time.

Re: Reasons to ditch Chrome and use Firefox

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Post by slenk »

sp332 wrote: post #282
slenk wrote: post #221

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Pocket is the only reason I use LibreWolf - I don't trust its integration and what parts I can actually disable

What do you think Mozilla is doing with Pocket they couldn't do with... the rest of the browser?

Sending data TO pocket...I already know I am sending data to Mozilla

Re: Reasons to ditch Chrome and use Firefox

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Post by spurgu »

Does anyone here know how to change the keyboard shortcut to focus the URL bar on Firefox?

I'd like to map it to Cmd+D instead of Cmd+L since it's (Alt+D) been in my muscle memory since forever. It's the main reason that keeps me from switching. With Chrome I simply assign it to the menu entry File -> Open Location ... but Firefox doesn't have a menu entry for focusing the URL bar (or at least didn't have last time I checked[0]).

[0] Checked again, v100 still doesn't have a menu entry

Re: Reasons to ditch Chrome and use Firefox

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Post by wussboy »

loudthing wrote: post #256

How did Chrome become so popular instead of Firefox in the first place? Was it purely Google's advertising of their browser? Brand recognition is so important to typical consumers.

I think it was because it was widely advertised on Google.com, a luxury Firefox never had.

Re: Reasons to ditch Chrome and use Firefox

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Post by kwanbix »

hn_user145 wrote: post #36

The only thing missing on Firefox for me is the ability to translate websites inline. Otherwise Firefox+ multi-account containers + proxy per container is a really nice feature

That is exactly why I no longer use Firefox. I moved to germany and I don't speak german, so you can imagine browsing without this functionality is impossible.

Re: Reasons to ditch Chrome and use Firefox

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Post by sp332 »

slenk wrote: post #334
sp332 wrote: post #282

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What do you think Mozilla is doing with Pocket they couldn't do with... the rest of the browser?

Sending data TO pocket...I already know I am sending data to Mozilla

Pocket was bought by the Mozilla Corporation over 5 years ago. It's a first-party Mozilla product.

Re: Reasons to ditch Chrome and use Firefox

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Post by pipeline_peak »

As Mozilla loses core dev resources, just like IE, Firefox will go extinct.

It will no longer be able to render modern pages as the web continues to grow increasingly complex.

Hopefully someday there will be a major backed FOSS project that forks web kit and can compete. But there are far too many more important problems out there for something as complex as a modern browser.

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