Give Firefox a chance

Post by OBLIQUE_PILLAR » Mon, Jun 24, 2019, 1:28 AM UTC

edraferi wrote: post #99

Lazare wrote: post #59

I switched to Chrome from Firefox years ago because Chrome has a better UX (faster, snappier, cleaner UI). A couple years ago I tried to switch back to Firefox (right after the Quantum project landed, and Firefox was meant to be a lot faster), but found FF to still be bloated, slow, and painful to use. A couple weeks ago I made another try to switch back to FF, and I have found the experience to be very pleasant this…

I had the same experience. Switched to Chrome from Firefox years ago, tried and was disappointed by the initial Quantum release, tried Firefox again with the “Chrome is killing uBlock Origin” announcement, very pleased this time. My main gripe with Firefox at the moment is Sync. It just doesn’t sync everything you need. My Firefox profile is highly customized, with a lot of extensions that all have their own complex…

Post by epiphanitus » Mon, Jun 24, 2019, 1:36 AM UTC

Qub3d wrote: post #313

frenchy wrote: post #221

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I suspect for most people who hadn't switched already, that ship has already sailed. Chrome had something of an edge over Firefox for a while with a more responsive UI, but since Firefox Quantum it hasn't really had anything besides some creepy Google integrations. Edit: Chromium is also easier to embed, but that doesn't really matter for the purposes of chosing a browser.

Its strange, for me. I remember getting super pumped about Chromium when it went live in '09. Then, somewhere along the line, I felt like a boiled frog. Honestly, a big change for me was symbolically realized by The logo change: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Chrome#/media/File:Chro... It went from this space-age, nerdy little project to a cleaned up design that signified its shift to a position as a core Googl…

Post by dngray » Mon, Jun 24, 2019, 3:18 AM UTC

the_pwner224 wrote: post #252

edraferi wrote: post #240

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Cool, I’ll dig into this. Would be helpful if the Firefox store made it clear if extensions support this. Also, why do some first-party extensions ignore it?? Also: there are other things sync still misses, like config.

For about:config, I put all my rules in a user.js file. Make that file in a synced folder (Dropbox, Nextcloud, Syncthing, etc.), go to your FF profile folder, and in there make a symlink to the actual synced user.js. http://kb.mozillazine.org/User.js_file Alternatively every about:config option has a corresponding option that enables sync for it. But that gets messy with many options. https://superuser.com/questions/…

    #!/usr/bin/env bash

    firefox() {
        local -n branches=$1
        local b p d="$XDG_CONFIG_HOME"/firefox/ghacks-user.js

        for p in "${!branches[@]}"
        do
            b=${branches["$p"]}
            printf 'Configuring "%s" on "%s"\n' "$p" "$b"
            ln -sf "$XDG_CONFIG_HOME"/firefox/chrome/userChrome.css ~/.mozilla/firefox/"$p"/chrome/userChrome.css
            git --git-dir="$d/.git" --work-tree="$d" checkout "$b" &&
            cp "$d/user.js" ~/.mozilla/firefox/"$p"/user.js
        done
    }

    firefox_data_path="mozilla/firefox.json"
    declare -A fx_profiles

    while read -r profile; read -r branch; do
        fx_profiles[$profile]=$branch
    done 

    [
      {
        "profile": "user.default",
        "branch": "fx-desktop"
      }
    ]