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In 2024, please switch to Firefox

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Re: In 2024, please switch to Firefox

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Post by laluneodyssee »

bryanlarsen wrote: post #350
wg0 wrote: post #257

The main short coming in firefox for me is the ability to create different profiles for different use cases like one for personal and one for work etc. It is doable but is hidden behind special settings:/// etc sort of and switching between them also requires something similar.

Firefox Multi-Account Containers is far superior to multiple profiles, IMO.

They are not a like for like alternative.

Profiles allow for greater separation of browsing personas: I can have a different set of passwords, extensions, bookmarks per persona I have like Work, Personal, Focus etc...

And while Firefox does have profiles, its not a great user experience. Theres no quick switching, the UI to access it feels outdated, and in general as much as it pains me to say it, Google has done a great job at implementing it.

I'm sure Firefox will get there, but as of right now its a sub-par experience.

Re: In 2024, please switch to Firefox

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Post by bradgessler »

I'm really getting tired of hearing the excuses from really smart people in tech sticking with Chrome.

Yes, you will find a thousand excuses to not switch.

Yes, you will find things that are worse (you will also find things that are better).

Yes, things are different.

Just suck it up and make the switch. You're smart. You'll adapt. We'll all be better for it.

Re: In 2024, please switch to Firefox

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Post by boringuser2 »

toyg wrote: post #221
boringuser2 wrote: post #91

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Any site that is on the edge of performance (often due to bad engineering, which you can blame on time constraints) will perform vastly better in Chromium.

Social networks really have no business being "on the edge of performance", FFS.

Okay, well, they're using React and most React engineers aren't very good so it ends up being a clusterfuck that most people don't even notice given how well Chromium is optimized.

Re: In 2024, please switch to Firefox

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Post by SubiculumCode »

mooreds wrote: post #112

Recommend doing this on mobile as well, if you are an android user. You get adblock and a URL bar near your keyboard. The price is that occasionally there are sites (approximately 2% in my anecdotal experience) that you'll have to use chrome for.

I opt for firefox nightly on android, giving me a chance to contribute to their development roll outs.

Re: In 2024, please switch to Firefox

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Post by johnchristopher »

jamiek88 wrote: post #12

We all switched to Firefox back in the day because it was better. Better than IE, there was no chrome and safari was a joke. Entreaties and ‘trying to make Fetch (firefox) happen’ won’t work, evidently. How do we make Firefox obviously better ? I’m core market for Firefox and just use Safari. Better battery life. And it’s just as good for privacy. At least that’s my impression. Is it wrong? If I don’t use it there’s…

Quoting myself:

> Hmm.

> Using Firefox because it has a particular technological feature is a political choice. That political stance would lead users to turn to other browsers as fast as tech is added or removed.

> I use Firefox for political reasons and for what it stands.

> Which means that when Firefox gets worse I still use it and support what it stands for.

> It's very Stallmanesque and let it be clear I am not saying the choice to favour superior tech over ethic concerns is wrong. It's just a different choice.

> That's what I tell people when talking about Signal and messenger, Chrome and Firefox.

> Also, I don't think Mozilla is a white knight and in my opinion they fucked up some good things over the years (tech or ethic). But the good still largely surpasses the bad.

Let's say Firefox was the open platform it is today but with the exception of, hmmm, tabs ? No tabs. Well, using Chrome because FF has not tabs if fine of course but you are trading convenience for a Google controlled Internet viewer. At some point Microsoft tried the EEE tactics with web browsers (jscript and box models and the whole DHTML hell, etc.) and the argument was the same: "do we want a web that is controlled by MS, a web where MS is the only gateway to how content should be displayed/accessed and where MS totally control the evolution of the tech ?"

Re: In 2024, please switch to Firefox

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Post by capl »

I have a couple of issues that keeps me using Safari. First off is the insane battery usage. It’s like 2x battery usage of Safari. Then it’s all the noise like Pocket, sign in this and register that.

And then a very specific problem that has annoyed the crap out of me: extension windows close if Firefox loses focus! That means that using Bitwarden to do this: 1) open Bitwarden and find some login details 2) alt tab to the program you’re trying to sign in to 3) paste the username 4) alt tab back to Firefox/Bitwarden and there you go, the Bitwarden window was closed due to Firefox losing focus and you now have to open it again, search and find the credentials again and then paste the password 5) open Bitwarden a third time and search yet again for the OTP code… A huge pain in the ass that makes me want to use another browser just because of that.

Re: In 2024, please switch to Firefox

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Post by SubiculumCode »

esfandia wrote: post #289

I actually finally just switched to Chrome (I'm a long time Firefox user, all the way back to when it was called Firebird), because of this issue: https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/discussions/microsoft-defende... Windows Defender flags things in the Firefox cache as a Trojan. It probably isn't, and it could also have something to do with uBlock Origin, but until that is resolved (I'm keeping an eye on the above link) I…

i haven't seen that at all. Perhaps a refresh, clean install after deleting the hidden app folders in home?
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