Firefox is lacking many major enterprise controls making it unsuitable for many large companies. An example of this is the lack of ability for administrators to apply additional restrictions on the domains specific extensions can access. Other basic enterprise features that are missing are the inability to force restarts when updates are available.
Reasons to ditch Chrome and use Firefox
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Re: Reasons to ditch Chrome and use Firefox
#42Funny, I've done the opposite. Firefox has always been my default as far as I can remember but for the past several releases it has been heavy in terms of macOS memory. The author is obviously using Windows, but on macOS it is the opposite. Every startup, Firefox seems to throttle my MBP fans and will get sluggish as I keep on using it.
Re: Reasons to ditch Chrome and use Firefox
#43I honestly want to ditch Firefox and try a Chromium browser for a minute [1], but I'm stuck on Firefox because it's the only one with a killer feature: send a tab to/from iOS and my Linux desktop. I skip Chrome and Edge for privacy reasons, Brave have a crappy and buggy sync feature that I don't know what OSes it supports, but not my combination. Can't send tabs with them. Vivaldi doesn't have an iOS port. Impossible…
The super-annoying thing about that, is that you need a Sync-Server, and an "Identity" server to run this all without having sign in to "Firefox Sync". The sync-server is trivial to run via docker, but (last time i checked) running the other essential part yourself is (intentionally?) not easy at all.
Mozilla really can’t win can they? They’re the only browser company that even attempts to provide the ability to run your own syncing service, and yet the insinuation is that they’re going out of their way to make it difficult.
Re: Reasons to ditch Chrome and use Firefox
#44I would really love to use Firefox Sync. But I don't want all my browsing history at Mozilla. Is it possible to run self-hosted Sync?
Sync is E2E encrypted, so while Mozilla host an encrypted file they don’t have access to your data.
(yes, it’s also possible to run your own sync service.)
Re: Reasons to ditch Chrome and use Firefox
#45FireFox Containers are a killer feature for me. It allows you to run sandboxed sessions. So you can ostensibly make every site a private tab by default but have a small few sites persistent.
Eg I’ll have a work group with GitHub, Okta, etc in it so I only need to log in once a day. But random websites cannot track me between sites.
Couple that with DNS blocking of trackers and ads, and the web is actually a lot more pleasant to use.
Unfortunately you cannot fix everything locally though.
Re: Reasons to ditch Chrome and use Firefox
#46Earlier quoted context omitted.
Edge is better than Chrome, & better than FF in many respects, too. Don't let the "M$ teh hacking my dataz!" tin-foilers dissuade... Performant, good mix of features, stable, solid compatibility, & flexible.
Something Edge has going for it is that it's the only browser on Windows where hardware acceleration seems to consistently work.
The browser of the OS producer works best with the OS, honi soit qui mal y pense
Re: Reasons to ditch Chrome and use Firefox
#47Here's one more: It's not Google.
It was my primary reason to drop Chrome twelve years ago. Every so often I try Chrome again, but other than a minor speed boost, I see no reason to switch back.
The UI isn’t great, nor is resource usage. These days I don’t bother installing an alternative browser and just use Safari.
Re: Reasons to ditch Chrome and use Firefox
#48Among all the other extensions that help guard my privacy and improve QoL, Containers is another great feature that integrates well with FF. I like maintaining profiles for privacy and security, and it helps me navigate certain sites where I have different accounts.
I honestly don’t get the lean toward Chrome — or Safari for that matter. I don’t detect such a big jump in performance that I’d ever consider sacrificing privacy to Google’s or Apple’s end. Brave is a nice browser but in the end I don’t see how I’m better off with it. Maybe I’m too much of a layman and don’t understand benchmarks or just don’t pay attention to latency, but purely from a daily driver perspective, I’ve never been happier with Firefox.
Re: Reasons to ditch Chrome and use Firefox
#49Long time Firefox user. Using it now. Used it in the early days for features liked tabbed browsing, good performance and Linux support. These days I really mainly use it to be contrarian to avoid using Google for everything. I just want to support a competitor.
Re: Reasons to ditch Chrome and use Firefox
#50>Automatic blocking of autoplay videos And then this very site has an automatic playing video in the article lmao Also a lot of these claims are so-so imo. "Lighter on system resources" "Speedier website browsing" I usually have 60-70 tabs open across 5-6 windows. Firefox absolutely shits itself all the time but Chromium doesn't. Anyways I use ungoogled-chromium https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium
- "And then this very site has an automatic playing video in the article lmao"
Reminiscent of this classic:
- "Among all the sites I visited, news sites, including The New York Times and The Washington Post, had the most tracking resources."
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/08/23/opinion/data-...