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I've started using Firefox and can never go back to Chrome

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Re: I've started using Firefox and can never go back to Chrome

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Post by jcynix »

nytesky wrote: post #333
zahma wrote: post #291

Is there really a killer feature of Chrome that justifies its use over FF? I've been using Firefox and have never been disappointed with it. I always just assumed that if you wanted privacy, it's better to use Firefox over Chrome, Safari, or Brave.

Multiple profiles in parallel. Does Firefox support that yet??

Multiple profiles in parallel? Sure, you can start multiple instances of Firefox in parallel from the command line and use them with different profiles. I do that (on a Mac) regularly. Works under Windows too, IIRC.

Re: I've started using Firefox and can never go back to Chrome

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Post by gmiller123456 »

kactus wrote: post #183
gmiller123456 wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>Tab groups Please no. I actually switched to Firefox on mobile just because I couldn't get tab groups to stay disabled in Chrome.

What do you dislike about tab groups? Or is Chrome's implementation on mobile not good? I think the current design is ugly. The way Edge handles them in the vertical tabs sidebar looks a lot better than the way other Chromium derivatives handle them in the tab strip, but still not the best. I like Vivaldi's implementation better, but the UI is relatively laggy. I miss old Opera.

Been long enough that I don't really remember the details, but I found it a lot harder to find what I was looking for.

Re: I've started using Firefox and can never go back to Chrome

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Post by eimrine »

GekkePrutser wrote: post #65

I don't have the impression that Firefox is so much more optimised. If anything I had the opposite impression (Chrome using less CPU than Firefox). Makes sense too because Google has a ton of money and Mozilla doesn't. Still I mainly use firefox and on most computers it's the only browser I even have installed.

I use both browsers (mostly FF on powerful machines and Chrome if I need to use Core2Duo or older) and I have an impression that Firefox has some memory leaks. Chrome browser loaded with as much tabs as allowed by my RAM can store its tabs forever. But Firefox can not do the same, despite it has been written on Rust.

Re: I've started using Firefox and can never go back to Chrome

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Post by AlexSW »

zahma wrote: post #291

Is there really a killer feature of Chrome that justifies its use over FF? I've been using Firefox and have never been disappointed with it. I always just assumed that if you wanted privacy, it's better to use Firefox over Chrome, Safari, or Brave.

For me, it's simply the grouping of tabs. I use both, but if I ever want to keep my tabs organised (which is often) I cannot use Firefox.

Re: I've started using Firefox and can never go back to Chrome

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Post by rascul »

koonsolo wrote: post #347
rascul wrote: post #331

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If it doesn't work in Firefox then I don't go to that site anymore. There's probably 2 other people in the world like me. Maybe 3.

The thing is, as a solo developer, you just have to be ruthless with cost/benefit. Either I give the same experience to maybe 2% of the users, or an overall improvement to 98%. Is it ideal? No. But a lot of things are about tradeoffs and deciding where you spend your resources. Ok, people here don't like it. They can make their own tradeoffs. But in my opinion my choice is not that crazy.

I understand. Not knocking you for it. Just letting you know there's 3 or 4 of us out there ;)

Re: I've started using Firefox and can never go back to Chrome

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Post by tppiotrowski »

Jenk wrote: post #287

I used Firefox in the early-mid 00s, switched to Chrome not long after launch, after my colleagues showed me how much slicker is was than a now fairly heavy Firefox (at the time.) Then evil Google emerges, Chrome got fat, FF trimmed up and went privacy-as-a-default, and I'm back on FF again for the better part of the last decade. Opera had a look-in around 2008 but it didn't last long, although some of the features w…

The right click mouse gestures of Opera were great for quickly navigating back/forward and creating new tabs.

Re: I've started using Firefox and can never go back to Chrome

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Post by canistel »

zahma wrote: post #291

Is there really a killer feature of Chrome that justifies its use over FF? I've been using Firefox and have never been disappointed with it. I always just assumed that if you wanted privacy, it's better to use Firefox over Chrome, Safari, or Brave.

I would say that it is the other way around.

Firefox provides essential functionalities that are altogether missing in Chrome:-

1. dom.event.clipboardevents.enabled - Enable copy paste

2. dom.event.contextmenu.enabled - Always enable context menu (right-click)

3. First party isolation.

Re: I've started using Firefox and can never go back to Chrome

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Post by stavros »

I've been using Firefox for around a decade, maybe? I've always liked it, but recently I switched to Vivaldi and I'm impressed by the amount of useful features it has.

My first browser was Opera and I'm a huge fan, so to see that the CTO of Opera has decided to basically recreate Opera is very alluring.

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