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I use Waterfox personally, but it's a minor difference. Some lesser known extensions: LocalCDN Tab Session Manager Feedbro Enhancer for YouTube Request Control Trace There is a lot of configuration you can do with a user.js file as well. I took a lot of options from the tor browser config since I value privacy.
I use Firefox sort of begrudgingly. It's marginally less bad than the other options, but it's still an awful browser. I vehemently disagree with almost all of its design decisions, and with every new release they seem to stray even farther from sane UX. It has hamburger menus on desktop and a lot of weird space-saving design that makes no sense on a modern high resolution display. Buttons are small, have cryptic flat…
There is a lot of telemetry, but there doesn’t seem to be any tracking.
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Why can't a browser exist that makes use of such a display though? Seems like every browser is targeting 12½" monitors to the detriment of proper desktops.
I would not be shocked if 13” was, in fact, the modal display size. A lot of people work off of laptops or even tablets.
Windows 95 had the ability to change the size of its icons. Clearly it can be done.
Firefox on Mobile supports uBlock origin, and is very nice as well. edit: on Android
Yes, Firefox on Android is really fantastic now. I've been impressed to find literally zero compatibility issues in the last year with it being my primary browser on mobile. Works perfectly with my bank, works with heavy WebRTC apps, etc. It's quite a feat, especially given its market share is so low, and so there are relatively so few users to report feedback.
If I open a page, navigate away from it for a few days, and come back, I do not want the page to reload automatically, ever. Firefox was doing that, Vivaldi does not. I moved to Vivaldi.
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This is one of those moments where I realize other folks on HN have almost exactly the same Firefox setup as me. Nice list of add-on recommendations! I would add in a couple more, for anyone tempted to switch away from Chrome or Safari: - Redirector: https://www.einaregilsson.com/redirector/ Very helpful for redirecting "new" reddit to old.reddit.com, AMP links to normal links, Twitter to Nitter, etc. - RES (Reddit E…
Would you share your redirector redirections list? (Sorry for the lazyness :P)
Before last October, I would have recommended Firefox to anyone who asked. Now, I would recommend Chrome for their ability to fix bugs in a timely manner.
I love Firefox too but this is a really weird post. The OP is clearly having performance issues with Chrome presumably due to extensions interfering or something else. I can guarantee you that Google makes sure Gmail loads at least as fast in Chrome as in Firefox. Chrome is customizable too (panes you can open/close), Chrome extensions are also thriving, and Chrome was the one who invented the "clean look", same as F…
Good think with firefox is if an extension slow down a page, it'll tell you which extension to blame. I was having an issue with a page with a huge form loading super slow (10 minutes!) in chrome until I tried loading it on firefox and it told me that lastpass was the culprit.