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Re: Switch from Chrome to Firefox

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Post by stirfrykitty »

huy-nguyen wrote: post #42
radamadah wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I use Adblock Plus ( https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/adblock-plus/ ), and I also have AdBlock installed ( https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/adblock-for-f... ), just in case the first one doesn't work. They are two of the most popular adblock plugins on Firefox. Or you could just use uBlock Origin on Firefox ( https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ublock-origin )!

Please stop using AdBlock/AdBlockPlus. Use uBlock Origin instead.

Agreed. My mainstay for some time has been Pi-hole coupled with browser running uBO, Privacy badger, Decentraleyes, Webmail Adblock, Tracking Token Stripper, Neat URL, Referer Control, and No Coin. I see nothing but pure content. I also like how uBO blocks WebRTC from leaking local IP addresses and blocks CSP reports.

Editing to say I've been reading on the fallout of the Chrome adblocking issue and many seem to think that DNS blocking is the way forward, but how long until it isn't? I've mentioned this before, but there has to be some way to do this without using browser-based solutions. I use them as well as a Pi-hole, but I dislike the browser-based solutions as a whole. What I'd like to see is a proxy, preferably web-based (cloud) that I can point my router and mobile devices to take advantage wherever I happen to be. Imagine a proxy that acts like /dev/null. It fools the sites into believing they are sending down ad data, but the proxy strips out that garbage. I know this does nothing for the bandwidth used, but I'm just thinking as I type. I understand HOW to do this, but my coding skills are not at that level. And I doubt this should be written in Python, although it likely could be. 20 years ago, I would be doing it in Perl, although those skills have fallen by the wayside since I have no real use case for Perl these days.

Re: Switch from Chrome to Firefox

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Post by k_bx »

dhritzkiv wrote: post #207
jwr wrote: post #161

I don't understand why Mac users use Chrome. Safari seems to be out of fashion: people just assume that it should not be used for some reason, even though it is actually a great browser. I use Safari for both my own browsing and for development (a fairly large ClojureScript application), and it is by far the best browser on the platform by all measures (speed first and foremost). The only place where Safari falls sho…

Agreed. On macOS, Safari is fastest, hands down. All while preserving battery life better than Chrome, and even Firefox. PiP, swipe to peak navigation, pinch to zoom, better 1Password integration, Apple Pay, etc. are all more than just nice to have features. However, my biggest gripe about Safari has to be the developer tools. They're noticeably slower, clunkier, and the network tab is unpredictable at times. I think…

> and even Firefox

if you have a retina display, this "even" is sort of a joke, because ff is so CPU-heavy (and often slow) that it's unusable for me https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1404042

Re: Switch from Chrome to Firefox

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Post by wmeredith »

jwr wrote: post #161

I don't understand why Mac users use Chrome. Safari seems to be out of fashion: people just assume that it should not be used for some reason, even though it is actually a great browser. I use Safari for both my own browsing and for development (a fairly large ClojureScript application), and it is by far the best browser on the platform by all measures (speed first and foremost). The only place where Safari falls sho…

If you use an iOS device, Safari is awesome. The integration between all your hardware devices syncing passwords, tabs, bookmarks, reading list, etc. kicks ass.

That’s all not to mention its excellent built-in privacy features and that it’s really really fast.

Re: Switch from Chrome to Firefox

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Post by ddavis »

jwr wrote: post #161

I don't understand why Mac users use Chrome. Safari seems to be out of fashion: people just assume that it should not be used for some reason, even though it is actually a great browser. I use Safari for both my own browsing and for development (a fairly large ClojureScript application), and it is by far the best browser on the platform by all measures (speed first and foremost). The only place where Safari falls sho…

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Re: Switch from Chrome to Firefox

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Post by petepete »

mattfrommars wrote: post #81

I like to switch from Chrome to Firefox but only thing keeping me with Chrome is its superior web development tool. One my the dev here recommends us to use Chrome because of its better Javascript debugger - something to do with the output in the web console takes you to the corresponding Javascript line & instance where it is invoked on the web page. I am not entirely sure what it is. Whatever it is, its not in Fire…

The dev tools made me stick with Chrome longer than I'd have liked, but I made the switch a few months ago and Firefox's have improved so much I'd put them on par.

Firefox also has an amazing flexbox inspector and inline breakpoints.

Re: Switch from Chrome to Firefox

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Post by JoshMnem »

soulofmischief wrote: post #352
JoshMnem wrote: post #202

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It might just be the nature of computers. A similar thing happened to me on Chrome during a recent update. I was using it as a backup browser and lost everything there when Chrome stopped working. I deleted it from my laptop and haven't missed it at all. I now use multiple Firefox profiles to work as alternate browsers. If you go into your profiles directory is the old profile still there? It might have just created…

The nature of a stable computing environment is not to randomly delete user data.

Chrome did it to me too. I had many links saved in onetab that are now lost. No software is completely stable on all computers in all situations.

Did you double-check your profile folder? Firefox might have created a new profile for you while leaving the old profile there. If you're on Linux or Mac, try typing this in a terminal:

    firefox -ProfileManager -no-remote &
Then, if there is more than one profile listed there, try each one to see if it's the old profile.

(I'm not sure how to find the profile folder on Windows.)

Re: Switch from Chrome to Firefox

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Post by brightball »

I want to, but the simple behavior issues of the LastPass extension force me to use Chrome just for it.

I don’t know if its LastPass or a limitation of Firefox that’s causing it, but it’s enough of a headache for how often I use LastPass that it prevents me from switching browsers.

Is there an alternative to LastPass that has a better user experience on Firefox? If so I’ll try it.

EDIT: I'll test out Bitwarden.

Re: Switch from Chrome to Firefox

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Post by BlueTemplar »

teh_klev wrote: post #303
dTal wrote: post #123

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No thanks. Keep Embrace, Extend, Extinguish away from my user agent.

Jeez not this trope(|tripe) again. It's boring and it's tedious. It's in the past. Under different management. Sure MS are no angels, but they seem to be doing far less harm these days than Google/Facebook et al.

Are you for real? See what has been happening to GitHub for the last year or so...

Re: Switch from Chrome to Firefox

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Post by amyjess »

marricks wrote: post #15

Google will keep locking down Chrome and using corporate talk to hand wave it away, only recourse is to leave. First it’s “sign in” with obtuse ways to turn it off. Then block Adblocking, once again with obtuse ways to disable... the end goal is pretty obvious, get the majority of Chrome users to turn on ads and tie their real names to their Chrome browser. Of course let “power users” (who’ll turn that crap off anywa…

I'd honestly be okay with using Vivaldi 99% of the time and then switching over to Chrome only to watch Netflix and the like.

And honestly, when I watch Netflix, it's usually in my Surface, in which case I'll use the app.

Re: Switch from Chrome to Firefox

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Post by jmull »

dcope wrote: post #307
jwr wrote: post #161

I don't understand why Mac users use Chrome. Safari seems to be out of fashion: people just assume that it should not be used for some reason, even though it is actually a great browser. I use Safari for both my own browsing and for development (a fairly large ClojureScript application), and it is by far the best browser on the platform by all measures (speed first and foremost). The only place where Safari falls sho…

I'd use Safari over Chrome, but Safari has a couple of show-stopping bugs: 1. Swiping back on the trackpad to navigate backwards freezes the page for a couple of seconds. It then redraws the page with any updated elements (perhaps a refresh?). 2. The element CSS attributes in the dev tools often fail to update the DOM, duplicate with every keystroke, or revert what you have typed.

For me, for 1. it seems to do the same thing as the back button. There is a refresh, but it has to do that.
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