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DDG is great. The instant answers feature is awesome, honestly I prefer it.
Agreed. I have been using DDG for ~two years. Maybe once or twice a week, I actually ask DDG to search in google (with awesome "!g" or "!img" bang-commands). DDG works consistently great, and the new DDG is even better, with auto-completion, images and video tabs. And I'm using Firefox as well.
!img == !i
I switched browsers for a different reason: I installed OS X Yosemite beta and it seems like the Safari browser uses far less COU resources, noticeable by longer battery life.
My apologies for the off-topic, but I wanted to ask how you are finding Yosemite - is it stable enough for me to switch over my dev machine?
> Google should be employing a strategy of invisible > control over how people interact, [...] They should be > quietly creating and controlling channels of > communication that I cannot live without. Wait, what? You don't mind a third party controlling how you interact, but you hate being told about it?
It sounds to me more like, "Make it so good it's indispensable to me, rather than trying to force me to use it"
The launch state of Google+ provided an extremely hostile experience due to policies such as "one social identity per account" and "use a government-approved non-ethnic name", but these issues were resolved years ago with the Pages feature.
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> I dont understand when people find firefox noticeably slower. In my experience, people who think Chrome is faster than Firefox never have hundreds of tabs open. I like Chrome and I use it for development, but I use Firefox for general web browsing because it handles hundreds of tabs much, much better. Not only is Firefox's performance better, but Firefox extensions such Tree Style Tab and Session Manager are vastly…
Browsers that use several child processes (like IE, Chrome, Safari/WebKit2) are faster, have less latency, crashes involve only one tab and the child processes run with limited OS priviledges ("sandbox") than browsers with only one process (Firefox, Safari/WebKit1). Mozilla is working on a multi-process Firefox, one can activate it with a hidden flag (it is still not production ready, and it will break several old pl…
It's more complicated than that. For one thing, "have less latency" is often the opposite: a keypress in a multiprocess browser has to travel from the user-facing process to the child process, then the effects have to travel back. In a single-process browser, there is no need to cross that boundary back and forth. You can see this in action in games for example, where you can sometimes see more input lag in multiprocess browsers.
Regarding speed, depends how you define it. Definitely multiprocess gives you responsiveness - one slow tab doesn't slow down the others. But throughput, not necessarily.
Overall though, multiprocess is a good thing. I'm just saying it isn't a win across the board, like everything it has downsides.
I dont understand when people find firefox noticeably slower. I wonder if thats related to OSX. Regardless, I agree with the move 100%. Thanksfully, while Firefox may not be the best, its very good/useable for everything. If ever it isnt good enough anymore and there is no other replacement - this is when we'll really be cornered
Firefox does seem slower than Safari on OS X, but I don't use Chrome enough on my Mac to compare Firefox vs. Chrome.
Try EpicBrowser.com -- built on chromium but designed to protect your privacy with everything Google ripped out.
I would switch if I could find a way to use multi-user profiles. Is there a way to do this with Firefox ?
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/firefox-profiles-run-multiple-f...
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My apologies for the off-topic, but I wanted to ask how you are finding Yosemite - is it stable enough for me to switch over my dev machine?
Yes, is pretty stable on my old MacBook white. The only thing that crashed was Xcode Playgrounds. You also will see some pixelated rounded corners for some contextual menus... but hey, this is beta. http://i.imgur.com/IMys5f6.png
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Yes, is pretty stable on my old MacBook white. The only thing that crashed was Xcode Playgrounds. You also will see some pixelated rounded corners for some contextual menus... but hey, this is beta. http://i.imgur.com/IMys5f6.png
How are you running Yosemite on a white MacBook? Is it a 4,1 2008-ish MacBook that maxes out at 4GB of RAM? Just curious, because I have one of those but I'm still running SL on it because I figured Mavericks would be a dog.