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Re: Tell HN: Firefox Is an awesome browser right now

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Post by speed_spread »

bmn__ wrote: post #281
speed_spread wrote: post #203

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Translate web pages locally This is a good start for a but what I'm looking for is Local Full Text Search of every page in my history. It shouldn't be hard to automatically maintain a text index of the pages I've browsed so that I can search them by keyword without bookmarking everything. Maybe it's just me but chronological history is useless beyond a few days.

https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/falcon_extension/ Why don't you just search the add-ons? This would have taken less time than to formulate your post.

I did, and never found this. Thanks.

You could have just pasted the URL. When someone here asks a well-formulated question I assume they've done their research first.

Re: Tell HN: Firefox Is an awesome browser right now

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Post by SanchoPanda »

Vinnl wrote: post #75
Vinnl wrote: post #49

> I'd be glad to learn of any other cool features and extensions that y'all might want to share. I'm sure others will be sharing it as I type this comment as well, but for many HN readers, Multi-Account Containers [1] are bound to be a godsend. Easily log in to different accounts for any website, in different tabs. Great feature that's not available in other browsers. [1] https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/mult…

And some more tips: - Translate web pages locally, without sending any data to remote servers: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/firefox-translation... - Vertical/tree-style tabs: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/sidebery/ - If you're in the EU: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/consent-o-matic/ - If you use RSS: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/feed-preview/ And I assume you've al…

Feed-preview is so helpful, thank you!

Re: Tell HN: Firefox Is an awesome browser right now

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Post by gramie »

jodrellblank wrote: post #357
VWWHFSfQ wrote: post #215

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I wouldn't make dom changes in a tight loop like that. Better would be to accumulate the changes that need to be made and then do a batch change operation instead of one at a time like it sounds like you're doing. That code would be slow in any browser.

You say "it would be slow in any browser" but that's not true. It's fast in Edge and Chrome and slow in FireFox. > " then do a batch change operation " What would the 'batch change' be if not a loop over all the changes, making the changes one by one?

One possibility would be to create all the matching rows of the table in text (...), and then replace the contents of the table in one assignment. That's pretty fast, although I'm not sure about OP's case.

Re: Tell HN: Firefox Is an awesome browser right now

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Post by marginalia_nu »

moskimus wrote: post #385
marginalia_nu wrote: post #314

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Nope, not getting any of that. If it ever existed, it's another casualty in the war on configurability. There's an option to add more space between the icons, but they're still as tiny as they ever were.

It still exists. Customize Toolbar -> Density (bottom left). There are only 2 or 3 presets, but it is possible to slightly adjust the icon size. Just confirmed on 109.0.1.

Huh, I get two presets. And the density only changes the spacing between the buttons. They're still the same size.

Re: Tell HN: Firefox Is an awesome browser right now

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Post by LoganDark »

reportgunner wrote: post #146
LoganDark wrote: post #139

And if you use it longer than 30 mins the memory leak will crash your computer. /s (this is my own experience, FWIW, but I understand not everyone has this.) -Emily

Works well on my machine(s), even the 2010 TP x201 that has a whopping 4GB RAM.

yes, our comment indeed said that not everyone has this problem

-Emily

Re: Tell HN: Firefox Is an awesome browser right now

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Post by goose847 »

Ygg2 wrote: post #293
lol768 wrote: post #258

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> There's nothing actually substantive about it. It doesn't feel like it belongs on HN. Most of the comments on every new Firefox release post are just as bad and have nothing to do with the actual release (folks whining about how their incredibly-niche use-case isn't supported anymore which breaks their workflow etc.), so in some ways it's nice to see something positive (which I would wager is more representative of…

https://xkcd.com/1172/

Wow there really is an xkcd for everything.

Re: Tell HN: Firefox Is an awesome browser right now

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Post by marginalia_nu »

altairprime wrote: post #372
marginalia_nu wrote: post #134

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…

Telemetry is not synonymous with tracking. You can implement telemetry while not tracking users. You can track users without telemetry. There is a lot of telemetry , but there doesn’t seem to be any tracking.

I don't want my applications to dial home and tell Mozilla what I'm doing with them. Doesn't matter what you call it.

Re: Tell HN: Firefox Is an awesome browser right now

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Post by xwowsersx »

Vinnl wrote: post #49

> I'd be glad to learn of any other cool features and extensions that y'all might want to share. I'm sure others will be sharing it as I type this comment as well, but for many HN readers, Multi-Account Containers [1] are bound to be a godsend. Easily log in to different accounts for any website, in different tabs. Great feature that's not available in other browsers. [1] https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/mult…

One thing I haven't figured out with container tabs: say I'm currently in one of the container tabs and I want cmd + T to open a new container tab. This doesn't work by default, AFAICT...instead it opens a regular non-container tab. How can I make it so that I get a new tab for the same container I'm currently on. Right now, I have to either go to File > new container tab or right-click the tab and click "new tab"..but I don't like using the mouse.

Re: Tell HN: Firefox Is an awesome browser right now

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Post by sundarurfriend »

starik36 wrote: post #178
loa_in_ wrote: post #13

I love Firefox but some JS heavy demos etc. just don't work fast enough. I hate that I know exactly why. It's because they were only ever tested on Chrome during development.

Can you give an example of something JS heavy that is slow in Firefox? I haven't encountered something like that in a very long while.

Idk if being JS heavy was the issue here, but Twitch had terrible performance on Firefox for years. I installed Brave specifically for Twitch (and Twitch alone), and could finally use the site without everything feeling sluggish and super laggy.

I don't use Twitch much anymore, but the one time I opened it recently (for NeoVimConf), it seemed much better.

Re: Tell HN: Firefox Is an awesome browser right now

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Post by rrishi »

alhirzel wrote: post #121

The Tree Style Tab extension[1] is wonderful for "keeping tabs" on our modern "to forget" lists (unclosed tabs). Putting tabs on the left is also a good screen real estate trade for wide aspect ratio screens. [1]: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tree-style-ta...

Thanks for the suggestion !

I'm giving Sidebery a shot first. If I'm not a fan, I'll give Tree Style a try.

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