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Wait, and how is Firefox capable of doing that?
With an online account that syncs the Firefox profile across all devices. And part of that is the ability to send a link to a specific device, which will then automatically load that URL in a new tab.
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Although with the removal of old extensions Firefox has lost most of its customizability. I really wish they kept those around. Even if they came with scary warnings and would break frequently because only a few APIs were kept stable.
Those old XUL/XPCOM extensions weren't really safe, and the only big loss was UI manipulation, which was kind of stupid anyway, and not at all portable. When I say customizability I mean user.js.
Well, for a start e.g. mass downloaders have become relatively useless because they can't download to outside of the OS downloads directory without resorting to weird hacks, can no longer intelligently handle already existing files, etc.
Then user scripts no longer being able to live normally on the file system (and therefore being editable outside of whatever limited UI the extension can provide, being easily searchable) are another victim of webextensions.
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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.
I still don't like the fact that it has sponsored links then - that is what rubs me the wrong way.
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> comparison that was shared here recently: https://privacytests.org/ The Librewolf project appears to be the best of all! I will try it. edit: Statement below is incorrect, Brave is a Chromium fork. I do note that Brave, Tor, and Librewolf are forks of Firefox. This in my opinion is an additional reason to support Firefox. Everyone else appears to be plundering naive users' browser telemetry.
Uh, I believe that Brave is based on Chromium, not Firefox...
On Android, look at Mull until Libre Wolf is available there.
On iOS, lol, you get Safari or skinned Safari due to Apple's app store rules.
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Pocket was bought by the Mozilla Corporation over 5 years ago. It's a first-party Mozilla product.
I did not realize that. I still don't like the fact that it has sponsored links then - that is what rubs me the wrong way.
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…
I think Chrome does this too, no? Maybe Firefox does it better?
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> HomeDepot.com often won't let me add things to cart. The past couple months it has been working again, but there were a few months where I couldn't. I checked for webcompat issues matching this description and couldn't find anyone reporting that adding items to the cart didn't work. I attempted to reproduce the issue myself, but HomeDepot block visitors from my location. > This morning, I couldn't buy a key off cdk…
What is the "webcompat project"? I just tried googling for it and there were some articles about it, but no page I could submit. I can say I recently found I couldn't make a new account at 'wise.com' in firefox (had to switch to chrome), and an internal university website doesn't work in Firefox -- but of course, I can't share that page publicly, so there's not a lot useful I can do with that.
> but no page I could submit
Click the large "Report bug" button and you'll get to https://webcompat.com/issues/new
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.
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.
IMHO, performance. Chrome's V8 engine (for running JavaScript) was way ahead of competition when it was released. It took Firefox many years to come close to it. Disclosure: Happy Firefox user since v1. Sometimes I was jealous of Chrome's speed, sometimes I was weary of Firefox's memory leaks, but never enough to leave the flexibility and customizability the Firefox provided. EDIT: ... and now Firefox is fast enough,…
Edit: Saw your edit. Glad the firefox memory problem was resolved.
One of the reasons I've been reluctant to go back to FF is the lack of support for users (that Chrome). I like to set up a Chrome user (effectively a new instance of the browser) for each project / client. Each gets ends up with its own password manager, history, bookmarks, etc. Having users helps me silo things abd stay organized. I can also have multiple users' browsers open at the same time. How can I replicate th…