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Re: How to Firefox

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Post by godelski »

moffkalast wrote: post #386
godelski wrote: post #380

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Isn't the fps capping? I'm pretty confident it is because it won't go above that on my system even when I do a trivial number of fish and my monitor maxes out at 60fps... > on a demo that looks like it's from the late 2000 Okay... now I think I shouldn't take you seriously... The literal visual aesthetics aren't really important for the test. You could place some nicer shaders and it wouldn't necessarily change the c…

I'm half kidding, it's entirely possible to overload any GPU with too many draw calls with the end result not looking like much. These fish would run reasonably well on something from that era though I'm sure, it's no GTA San Andreas. But no it's not capped at 30, it jumps to like 33, 34 sometimes with those settings, it's capped to 60 like Chrome as well. Probably vsync.

You said 60 before so thats why I thought it was capped. Which matches what I'm seeing when I run the tests as well as others

Re: How to Firefox

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Post by godelski »

charcircuit wrote: post #385
godelski wrote: post #361

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Is Chrome being cached? This is actually not a good test because there are a lot of tricky and subtle things that can make the comparison highly unfair. Smartphones will cache apps so that they don't fully close. Then, if you do actually force kill them they will start up in the background. Are we surprised a Google phone caches the Google browser which is considered to be a high priority app, commonly used, and even…

>This is actually not a good test It is a realistic user scenario, which in my opinion makes it a good test. The real world performance is what matters here. The user doesn't care if technically there is some trick that is being used to "cheat."

  > The user doesn't care if technically there is some trick that is being used to "cheat."
You framed the "benchmark" around performance, not perceived performance. Those are two very different things. We're on HN, so don't be surprised when people correct you or nitpick. Either accept the clarification (if it is correct), clarify what you originally intended to say (without being overly defensive), or move on.

Besides, if we're talking about average user, they're not force closing apps and the phone should be caching the most frequently used apps. So even then the test won't mimic real world experience even if it's about perception. Maybe initially, but not after sustained usage. People usually normalize to whatever they're using

Re: How to Firefox

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Post by godelski »

sinatra wrote: post #375
godelski wrote: post #340

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> my ADHD regularly has me forgetting to restart it, to the tune of 100+ tabs open across multiple desktops. My MacBook Air routinely will have 200-300 before I purge. Getting better at keeping under 100 but yeah... My Linux desktop is hooked up to my TV[0] and currently has over 100 YouTube tabs open. I'm going to watch those math videos, I swear, I'm just tired right now and so want to watch garbage. I do have ublo…

I stopped having the same issue of 100s of tabs of "math videos that I was going to watch one day" when I started saving them in my private playlists. Now I just have 100s of videos in playlists that I just look at longingly but never watch.

lol I tried that once.

What works best for me now is to do my best at putting tabs in the correct group tbh most gather while debugging and then I can just kill the group when I'm done.

Problem is the ADHD and groups get contaminated. Mostly a few casualties is actually fine but sometimes the group gets too mixed. Eventually I nuke it all

Re: How to Firefox

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Post by GlitchRider47 »

faxmeyourcode wrote: post #161

Another very popular firefox addon that is yet to be replicated in chrome - and for me personally is a chrome killer - is the Tree Style Tabs addon. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tree-style-ta... This is superior to most other vertical tab, tab groups, and the many other tab styles that have been cooked up over the years on other browsers.

Do you (or anyone else reading) know of any way to make TST feel like a more native feature? I've messed with the userChrome.css but I hate that it has to be in the sidebar.

Re: How to Firefox

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Post by leoapagano »

ReadCarlBarks wrote: post #268
leoapagano wrote: post #168

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Firefox's "answer" to profiles is to run essentially two (or more) copies of the browser rather than only copying the profile-specific parts of each profile. This leads to a lot of wasted CPU cycles and RAM and is a very suboptimal solution compared to what Chromium and Safari do these days, not to mention that the ability to create and switch profiles is not included in the UI by default and requires an extension to…

The new profile manager has already been enabled for most users. If you don't see it in the main menu yet, type `about:config` into the address bar and toggle `browser.profiles.enabled`.

Just tried it out - definitely an improvement UX-wise, but it still essentially runs two copies of Firefox rather than only isolating profile-specific features.

Re: How to Firefox

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Post by consumer451 »

mattlutze wrote: post #89

I am surprised how many people have so many problems with Firefox. I've never felt impeded by loading speeds, and my ADHD regularly has me forgetting to restart it, to the tune of 100+ tabs open across multiple desktops. My wimply little MacBook Pro doesn't seem to mind. The only downside I've found is that, because so many people just default to "Chrome or nothing," there's occasionally sites that have bugs because,…

There is only one website with a weird issue for me in Firefox: chatgpt.com of all things.

When I open it and start typing, it resets the cursor position to the beginning after I already typed a few words. I assume this is some Next weirdness which requires a hack that only happens to work in Chrome.

Re: How to Firefox

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Post by prophesi »

bee_rider wrote: post #387
prophesi wrote: post #119

A tip I would add to this article is that Firefox natively supports sidebar tabs now without needing hacky extensions. Go to about:preferences under the Browser Layout section of the General tab, and select Vertical Tabs. The tab group functionality along with Multi-Account Containers are a lot more useful under this layout IMO.

When was that added? I’ve been using “Tree Style Tab” for… well, I guess it must be more than a year at this point. Worth dropping the extension?

You can't have nested tab groups so I imagine you'd want to keep using that extension if that's what you're using it for.

Re: How to Firefox

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Post by kjkjadksj »

1vuio0pswjnm7 wrote: post #311

Having tested uMatrix and uBlock Origin for years, and having tried many other Firefox extensions, IMO the best Firefox advantage is neither of those nor any other extension. It is a rarely discussed about:config option called network.dns.forceResolve Chrome desktop also has something like this, but it's a command-line option. Firefox OTOH allows one to select a global domain-to-IP mapping while the browser is runnin…

I dabbled in the cli browser space but a lot was left to be desired due to the state of the modern web. I was having trouble with HN threads even. They would lose indentation structure for the comments and appear all one after another. Mostly dabbled in links and w3

Re: How to Firefox

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Post by ksec »

vladvasiliu wrote: post #197
mattlutze wrote: post #89

I am surprised how many people have so many problems with Firefox. I've never felt impeded by loading speeds, and my ADHD regularly has me forgetting to restart it, to the tune of 100+ tabs open across multiple desktops. My wimply little MacBook Pro doesn't seem to mind. The only downside I've found is that, because so many people just default to "Chrome or nothing," there's occasionally sites that have bugs because,…

I was in your boat up until a few days ago, when it randomly decided in wouldn't load properly. I force quit it, and then it forgot all my tabs. Now, it actually remembered what seemed like the correct number of tabs, each with the correct container, only the address was gone from every tab! Other than that, it works well enough for me. My only beef is I can't completely disable tabs, but I don't know of any equivale…

Are you on Linux?

In any case there should have been a List of Tabs backup file ( cant remember what is was called ) and you can manually replace it to recover your Tabs.

"About:unloads" allows you to manually unload all tabs.

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