Here's one more: It's not Google.
> It's not Google. It's still almost exclusively funded by Google though.
However Google does it to avoid anticompetitive lawsuit,and not for helping snoop on users for Google
Reasons to ditch Chrome and use Firefox
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Re: Reasons to ditch Chrome and use Firefox
#392Earlier quoted context omitted.
They've implemented V3. What they're not doing is removing support for V2, so plugins that want the full access can do so.
Is there a public page/link which mentions that they're not removing V2 support? Please share. Thanks. All I can find is: We have not yet set a deprecation date for Manifest v2 but expect it to be supported for at least one year after Manifest v3 becomes stable in the release channel. https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2021/05/27/manifest-v3-updat... So they will eventually remove it sooner than later.
On the same page: "We will support blocking webRequest until there’s a better solution which covers all use cases we consider important, since DNR as currently implemented by Chrome does not yet meet the needs of extension developers."
Re: Reasons to ditch Chrome and use Firefox
#393One 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…
It gets much better when you disable search suggestions then you only have results from your browsing history/bookmarks. And in the end if you get no results you just launch a search anyways. There was a way to configure the relative weight of boomarks/history but I can't find it anymore. Also worthy of notice, if you start with * in the search bar you only get bookmarks results and with ^ you get history results. Fi…
Using % to deal with the shameful number of tabs I have open is a killer feature.
Re: Reasons to ditch Chrome and use Firefox
#394Earlier quoted context omitted.
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. This morning, I couldn't buy a key off cdkeys.com - tried two totally different methods, email addresses, credit cards. Didn't try a second browser yet but I'm not sure I am that persistent... A news site, I think the New Yorker, would only show the first two paragraphs…
> 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…
Appreciate the effort, but you're wrong.
Just to be sure I went back again today. Still could not purchase Horizon Zero Dawn. The error in the console was "No recaptcha clients exist."
I then went to Edge, and I able able to successfully make the purchase.
I'm a Firefox user. I'm a fan. But to pretend that there aren't sites that test in Chromium and call it a day isn't reality.
Re: Reasons to ditch Chrome and use Firefox
#395Earlier quoted context omitted.
> It's not Google. It's still almost exclusively funded by Google though.
However Google does it to avoid anticompetitive lawsuit,and not for helping snoop on users for Google
We can only speculate about Google's true motivations and there is no reason to believe that it is only that. You can't deny that a privacy focused browser having their funding depend on one of the primary privacy violators on the web is a conflict of interest. Even if Google is not directly pressuring Mozilla to implement/not implement things, Mozilla is still going to be hesitant to piss off Google too much.
Re: Reasons to ditch Chrome and use Firefox
#396Earlier quoted context omitted.
> I'm starting to see broken sites What are some examples of this? I keep seeing this complaint and I keep asking for examples but I always get "just various sites"-like answers. FF is my primary browser and I am not seeing it. I am genuinely curious as to whether it is starting to fall behind but I can recall maybe two or three instances the past couple of years where I opened a site in Brave to see if it worked the…
Gmail, other than being sluggish on FF, its browser history (back button) is broken on Firefox (though gmail's keyboard shortcuts still work).
And another one - google search any time series graphs such as stock price, currency convertion etc. Works so far on FF. Click any of the non-default resolution (5D, 1M, 6M) and you'll get a "No chart available" on FF.
Re: Reasons to ditch Chrome and use Firefox
#397Killer feature for me, why I migrated to FF recently - add blocking in mobile. When I migrated to FF on mobile there was no choice but to migrate to FF on desktop. And I don't regret anything after doing that.
Re: Reasons to ditch Chrome and use Firefox
#398Earlier quoted context omitted.
The Mozilla focus on privacy is the killer feature for me. DNS encrypted "Total Cookie Protection" uBlock Origin multi-account containers I also like built-in screen capture *various other extensions, such as Copy All Tab URLs I didn't find "Pocket" compelling when it was first introduced, but I have since found some of the recommendations interesting. Bravo Mozilla!
Pocket is the only reason I use LibreWolf - I don't trust its integration and what parts I can actually disable
Just switch extensions.pocket.enabled to false in about:config
Whole thing gone. It's like an internal addon an that switch disables it.
Re: Reasons to ditch Chrome and use Firefox
#399Earlier quoted context omitted.
Sync is E2E encrypted, so while Mozilla host an encrypted file they don’t have access to your data. (yes, it’s also possible to run your own sync service.)
Is it though? I have not been able to find any official up-to-date docs on it. The Github README says that it is no longer maintained: https://github.com/mozilla-services/syncserver
It seems that self-hosted Firefox Sync is NOT currently supported:
https://github.com/mozilla-services/syncstorage-rs/issues/55...
https://github.com/mozilla-services/syncstorage-rs/issues/68...
It seems they are migrating the solution without having any instructions on how to self host it.
Re: Reasons to ditch Chrome and use Firefox
#400FireFox Containers are a killer feature for me. It allows you to run sandboxed sessions. So you can ostensibly make every site a private tab by default but have a small few sites persistent. Eg I’ll have a work group with GitHub, Okta, etc in it so I only need to log in once a day. But random websites cannot track me between sites. Couple that with DNS blocking of trackers and ads, and the web is actually a lot more…
"FireFox Containers are a killer feature for me ..." They are a killer idea but their implementation is disappointing. In no particular order ... - You can't clear history for a particular container space [1] - Containers are only tabs - so you can't, for instance, create a window and have all future tabs created in that window inherit that container - No "private" (or "burner") container that saves nothing outside o…
What's the difference between a burner container and a private window (Ctrl+Shift+P)?
I suspect it would be fairly straightforward to make an extension that set a per-window default container, but I agree that it should be built in functionality. (Whether that default should override site-specific container rules, I'm not sure... I kind of want both options, but I guess that's where it starts getting complex.)
I'm annoyed by the lack of integration between container and history. I never really want to clear history for a non-private window, but I do want to be able to restrict what I see by container when it makes sense and not restrict when it doesn't. My main grievance: searching for open tabs (either by prefixing the location bar entry with "% " or by choosing the Open Tabs option from the dropdown that appears when you start entering something) should match across all tabs, at least in the context of a freshly-opened new tab.