Switching from Chrome to Firefox • Hacker News Board

Re: Switching from Chrome to Firefox

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Post by eloisant » Mon, Dec 30, 2019, 8:49 AM UTC

feanaro wrote: post #11

clement_b wrote: post #7

I did that about a month ago, after more than 10 years with Chrome only. So far so good, apart from battery usage on Android. I sometimes feel it spirals when too many tabs are left open. Desktop, no problem. I have kept Chrome for my work stuff, because I want 100% efficiency / no delay due to my tech choices and I work on a SaaS tool primarily targeting Chrome. I still think Chrome is better when it comes to poweri…

> The real question for me is, besides privacy, what is the killer feature that will / does make it obvious to switch to Firefox? Preventing the web from devolving into a closed garden. For this we need alternative browser engines and hence Brave does not make the cut. Other than that, containers are a pretty useful tool that's so far Firefox only.

I also switched to Firefox a year ago or so, and I liked Chrome accounts better than Firefox containers. I ended up to using them at all and mixing everything, while on Chrome work and personal was cleanly separated.

Re: Switching from Chrome to Firefox

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Post by onion2k » Mon, Dec 30, 2019, 8:49 AM UTC

dimator wrote: post #12

Time for the weekly Chrome bash thread on HN. Cue the "I also switched to ddg and it's great!" Seriously, why does this happen so much here? I'm not even talking about the merits of the argument (I switched to Firefox), I'm just talking about how much of an echo chamber this is.

Google exists to generate as much profit as possible, almost entirely from the sale and publication of ads. HN readers, in general, dislike ads. Consequently there's already an antagonistic relationship between Google and HN readers. Add to that the fact that Google do many things that people don't like such as killing products, eroding privacy and making the web less open, it shouldn't be much of a surprise that HN readers upvote and comment on articles that aren't entirely positive about things affected by Google's internal politics.

Re: Switching from Chrome to Firefox

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Post by ailideex » Mon, Dec 30, 2019, 8:49 AM UTC

ypeter wrote: post #8

bennyz wrote: post #3

I am still missing chrome-like profiles

Have you tried Multi-Account Containers? It’s not the same but for me it works (I want to be logged in with various accounts on the same website)

I actually prefer the multi-account containers to chrome's profile approach.

Re: Switching from Chrome to Firefox

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Post by onetimemanytime » Mon, Dec 30, 2019, 8:50 AM UTC

Firefox user here too! Chrome is on not my side, it's only to make sure Google increases their revenue.

Re: Switching from Chrome to Firefox

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Post by ysavir » Mon, Dec 30, 2019, 8:50 AM UTC

LoSboccacc wrote: post #36

I'm using Firefox as primary browser since Chrome war on as blockers and it works fine for the most part but it's quite rough around the edges my biggest grows come from the omnibar, it still has a heck of a trouble guessing what's a search and what's a domain, the sorting out partial matches feels weird because bookmarks aren't prominent and there's no promotion of URLs entered Vs useless navigated toward and three…

I still keep a search bar separate from the address bar. I find it makes things much simpler.

The address bar is where I can type in URLs and search through my bookmarks. The search bar is where I enter searches and can explore search history.

I've never liked the idea of an "omnibar", and the dual setup has been a much better experience.

Re: Switching from Chrome to Firefox

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Post by ailideex » Mon, Dec 30, 2019, 8:51 AM UTC

I really want to use FireFox but it is simply too heavy on resources compared to chrome (running on Linux - both Fedora 31 and RHEL 8). In general I like FireFox more and prefer features like multi-account-containers so I'm quite sad to have to use chrome.

Re: Switching from Chrome to Firefox

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Post by bennyz » Mon, Dec 30, 2019, 8:51 AM UTC

ypeter wrote: post #8

bennyz wrote: post #3

I am still missing chrome-like profiles

Have you tried Multi-Account Containers? It’s not the same but for me it works (I want to be logged in with various accounts on the same website)

Containers are nice and I use them, but unfortunately they are not enough since they are not synced and don't solve the bookmarks issue

Re: Switching from Chrome to Firefox

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Post by Iolaum » Mon, Dec 30, 2019, 8:51 AM UTC

sschueller wrote: post #26

Firefox is great but not so great is asking users to automatically use Cloudflair's DoH service. Let me pick which DoH I want to use.

They are working on that and recently announced a partnership with nextDNS as a provider.

Re: Switching from Chrome to Firefox

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Post by onion2k » Mon, Dec 30, 2019, 8:53 AM UTC

mav3rick wrote: post #20

dimator wrote: post #12

Time for the weekly Chrome bash thread on HN. Cue the "I also switched to ddg and it's great!" Seriously, why does this happen so much here? I'm not even talking about the merits of the argument (I switched to Firefox), I'm just talking about how much of an echo chamber this is.

Most people hate it for the salaries and that they couldn't get in, they mask it as some sort of far left viewpoint that forces them to oppose Google at every opportunity. Google can solve world hunger and HN would still blame them for a "PR" stunt.

Google has the resources and brains available to solve world hunger, so they probably could do that.

Unfortunately all those people who work there would rather spend their time and effort thinking of new ways to get people to see ads.

I don't see that as very positive for Google.

Re: Switching from Chrome to Firefox

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Post by SubZtep » Mon, Dec 30, 2019, 8:53 AM UTC

The main reason I switched to Firefox was an extension where I can see all of my tabs on a sidebar. I don't think it's possible with Chrome until they introduce sidebar pane. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tree-style-ta...