Further convinced to go back to FF, darn it after an update and a reboot one hour ago, ctrl+space no longer works with chrome(which worked in the last few years) but it works the same way with anything else, yesterday it's that youtube brought my PC to grinding halt when it's used with crhome(firefox works fine), what's going on Google???
Disable Google Chrome Sign In and Sync
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Re: Disable Google Chrome Sign In and Sync
#42There's a great way to disable this and many other user-hostile features by going to https://www.mozilla.org/ and downloading Firefox. Suddenly, you are no longer fighting your browser.
>Suddenly, you are no longer fighting your browser. I mean, if you're okay with Pocket showing you ads in your home page, your browsing data being sent to Cliqz, addons that publicise the "Mr Robot" TV show being installed without your consent, Mozilla pages that use Google Analytics scripts that cannot be blocked, then Firefox is a solid choice.
None of that happens in the current Firefox releases.
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#43Earlier quoted context omitted.
I've ran into various comments around the internet/reddit that Google sites like Youtube are slower on Firefox, and that changing the user agent to Chrome fixes it.
No problems here: Waterfox plus usual privacy oriented addons then Hooktube replacing Youtube. Might seem excessive but works like charm. https://www.waterfoxproject.org/en-US/ https://hooktube.com/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ublock-origin... https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere https://www.eff.org/privacybadger https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/umatrix/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-…
Warning: Hooktube link is NSFW. 'Sensual massage' thumbnail on the frontpage...
Re: Disable Google Chrome Sign In and Sync
#44Earlier quoted context omitted.
While you're completely on the mark with this, I noticed that Google pulls the new Microsoft now that it has almost a quasi monopoly on the desktop: Most of the new, complex UIs by Google services (read: GCP Cloud Console, all of Google Marketing Platform) are slowing my Firefox to a grinding halt, often times even crashing the tab. No problems in Chrome whatsoever. It's the only thing I'm using Chrome for these days…
I've noticed this also. Gmail or anything by Google within Firefox is painful. Very very painful.
I have a Gmail account since it was invite only and I believe also there wasn't any web interface yet so I always used it through a mail client such as Sylpheed, now Claws Mail (https://www.claws-mail.org/). The very few times i had to use the web interface (always Firefox or derivatives) it worked without hitches on FF too, but a few months ago I was doing some maintenance to a customer PC (Debian+Firefox just like all my machines) and noticed how slow the Gmail web interface had become. Switching to the "old" mode helped somewhat to restore some speed, but being used to snappy dedicated mail client it still was truly slow to operate. Unfortunately today every non tech savy user thinks the browser is the internet to the point some don't even know what the word browser mean, which makes even more difficult to convince them to try anything else.
Where a browser struggles with two pages of mails, I can keep available my entire archive since about 2001 on the Claws Mail client, that's over 50K mails in a dozen accounts, and query them to find whatever I need.
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#45I don’t understand why people are complaining about this. If you’re concerned about privacy then why would you even use a Google product in the first place? There are other options.
Chrome has become the de facto standard browser. I regularly run into websites that don't work (or don't work well) in Firefox.
Do yourself and the community a favor and when you see a website that doesn't work well make the Firefox Team aware of it[1].
They have a dedicated Team to check those issues.
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#46Earlier quoted context omitted.
>Suddenly, you are no longer fighting your browser. I mean, if you're okay with Pocket showing you ads in your home page, your browsing data being sent to Cliqz, addons that publicise the "Mr Robot" TV show being installed without your consent, Mozilla pages that use Google Analytics scripts that cannot be blocked, then Firefox is a solid choice.
None of that happens in the current Firefox releases.
That's a lie. You are still shown Pocket ads and AMO still uses Google Analytics which cannot be blocked (extensions cannot run on addons.mozilla.org).
About the rest: true, it's in the recent past, but Mozilla love to shoot themselves in the foot, so they will keep doing that kind of stuff.
Re: Disable Google Chrome Sign In and Sync
#47Why doesn't anyone here like using Chrome? I like how all of my info is in one place and always synced across all of my devices. Passwords, addresses, payment info, etc.
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#48Disable the most useful features in chrome. No thanks.
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#49Earlier quoted context omitted.
I've noticed this also. Gmail or anything by Google within Firefox is painful. Very very painful.
Just a heads up, but we are actively working on improving the situation here, and should have releases coming out that steadily and progressively improves the experience on this front. It is an area of major focus after the initial Quantum Flow effort, and we have technical fixes in many places in the pipeline to address this. (I work on the Javascript engine in Firefox, and improving our story here is one of my pers…
Can you provide a few links to bugs for this?
I'd love to know the technical reasons behind that.
Re: Disable Google Chrome Sign In and Sync
#50I was surprised and angered by the sudden appearance of this automatic sign-in and sync. Between the time that it was activated silently and when I disabled it, I have a nagging suspicion that Google hoovered up my browsing history, bookmarks, passwords, etc. in the guise of "sync". While I couldn't find any evidence, whatever little trust I had left in Chrome is now gone.
> I have a nagging suspicion that Google hoovered up my browsing history, bookmarks, passwords, etc. in the guise of "sync".
It does save some state even when you erase all your history. You can log into GMail, then go to your history and click to erase all history, after which the history settings page will scroll down (to hide the fact you're still logged into this sync thing?), and then when you go to GMail you're logged in again, effectively making Google bypass you clearing your cookies.