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This anniversary makes me feel like I should do something nice for Firefox. Then I realised that I've been working on their DVCS of choice, Mercurial. Well, Firefox, you've served me very well over the years. I hope I can make Mercurial better for you in return. Thanks!
My love for Chrome ended and I switched back to Firefox about 3 months ago. The switch went well and I'm happy with my choice. Reasons: 1. First version of Chrome for the desktop supported extensions, because it was competing with a popular Firefox, and now on Android they don't give a shit about enabling users to customize the behavior of their browser, which pisses me off. So I switched to Firefox on my Android bec…
Your memory of desktop Chrome doesn't match mine. Chrome added extensions more than a year after launch. http://chrome.blogspot.com/2009/12/google-chrome-for-holiday... Its extension model remains superior to Firefox's, and I hope Mozilla fixes this. I shouldn't need Python and an SDK installed to develop a JavaScript browser extension. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Add-ons/SDK/Tutorials/In...
You don't. The only things you need are a text editor and a zip utility (and I'm not sure about the last; it's certainly not needed if you're not distributing the extension). You only need the SDK if you want to use the Add-on SDK.
It seems the standards-based browser du jour is moving back in Mozilla's favor lately. I can say, for the first time in ages, that FF is very fast, very stable and very secure. Chrome, on the other hand, has been less stable, less fast and less secure.
I have the same feeling on everything except security, but electrolysis should help with that. http://m.slashdot.org/story/199459
My love for Chrome ended and I switched back to Firefox about 3 months ago. The switch went well and I'm happy with my choice. Reasons: 1. First version of Chrome for the desktop supported extensions, because it was competing with a popular Firefox, and now on Android they don't give a shit about enabling users to customize the behavior of their browser, which pisses me off. So I switched to Firefox on my Android bec…
For USD 15, Insync[1] can help you with that.
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I have the same feeling on everything except security, but electrolysis should help with that. http://m.slashdot.org/story/199459
NoScript + ABP you are free of 99% of web hacks out there.
My love for Chrome ended and I switched back to Firefox about 3 months ago. The switch went well and I'm happy with my choice. Reasons: 1. First version of Chrome for the desktop supported extensions, because it was competing with a popular Firefox, and now on Android they don't give a shit about enabling users to customize the behavior of their browser, which pisses me off. So I switched to Firefox on my Android bec…
What's wrong with Chromium?
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Your memory of desktop Chrome doesn't match mine. Chrome added extensions more than a year after launch. http://chrome.blogspot.com/2009/12/google-chrome-for-holiday... Its extension model remains superior to Firefox's, and I hope Mozilla fixes this. I shouldn't need Python and an SDK installed to develop a JavaScript browser extension. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Add-ons/SDK/Tutorials/In...
> I shouldn't need Python and an SDK installed to develop a JavaScript browser extension. You don't. The only things you need are a text editor and a zip utility (and I'm not sure about the last; it's certainly not needed if you're not distributing the extension). You only need the SDK if you want to use the Add-on SDK.
My love for Chrome ended and I switched back to Firefox about 3 months ago. The switch went well and I'm happy with my choice. Reasons: 1. First version of Chrome for the desktop supported extensions, because it was competing with a popular Firefox, and now on Android they don't give a shit about enabling users to customize the behavior of their browser, which pisses me off. So I switched to Firefox on my Android bec…
> I also moved to Dropbox as my cloud storage, because Google Drive still does not have a Linux client. For USD 15, Insync[1] can help you with that. [1] https://www.insynchq.com/
I've been a Firefox user since it launched. It's still my browser of choice on my personal Windows laptop and on all of my Android devices--I admire Mozilla's willingness to not let the OS vendor hold a monopoly on the browser software, now as much as they did a decade ago with Microsoft. Then again, my primary music player on my laptop is still Winamp, so make of that what you will.