I am still with Safari as my main browser for battery life and performance on Mac. Does anyone have insights how Firefox currently compares? I can't touch Chrome without sacrificing at least an hour of battery life from my day
Firefox Quantum Lands in Beta, Developer Edition
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Pocket is now owned by Mozilla, and is going to be open sourced. What separates that from any other functionality built into the browser, for instance Firefox Sync or Autocomplete?
1. Firefox Accounts & Sync is a terrible mess. Its security is still broken[1] and it's insanely over-engineered[2]. I really wish it shouldn't have existed, and instead Mozilla would've focused on providing an API to build a synchronization service upon. And then, whatever - their services could've been an pre-bundled extension. 2. I believe all of those SaaSes (i.e. Firefox Screenshots, too) shouldn't belong to the…
> I just feel that rather than a browser, Firefox is becoming something like a service platform
Isn't it? Wasn't this the crux of the whole dev team controversy/split years ago?
(This is all sounding like rehashed news to me, but I admit I don't go out of my way to keep up with browser community drama, so someone correct me if I'm wrong.)
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Sync, Pocket, Dev tools, Screenshots etc are not required to display and interact with HTML pages. They are useful and it's nice they exist, but I don't see a reason to have them installed if I don't need them - just as I don't install every package available in OS just in case I'll need later it. Even if they don't use resources when not being actively used (no way to test since there is no way to remove them), they…
> just as I don't install every package available in OS just in case I'll need later it. But your OS does come with lots of packages and features you may not use.
Not necessarily, depending on their OS
Re: Firefox Quantum Lands in Beta, Developer Edition
#404Edge is still the most responsive browser for me when I'm connected to a remote Windows desktop through a shaky 3g cellular connection.
Re: Firefox Quantum Lands in Beta, Developer Edition
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I used Firefox Focus on my Pixel for a few weeks and was blown away by how fast it was. The mobile web went from borderline unusable to borderline pleasant with it, I imagine largely due to its tracking and limited ad blocking. Sadly, I migrated back to Chrome because anything that needs to work with Google login or opening an app simply doesn't work. This causes issues with a lot of things I use. I feel like I'm bei…
I was blown away by Firefox Focus as well. I ended up making it the default browser, so its used when I read an article on HackerNews, Reddit, Twitter, etc. But when I need the "logged in" experience - autofill passwords, bookmarks, cookies, etc. - I launch Chrome. Best of both worlds!
Yes! I do this as well after reading about it on some Reddit thread. Fantastic use case for opening random links from email and chat (and Focus is actually very smooth)!
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I'm at 204 with about 1 GB of usage. Firefox is great with many tabs http://www.techradar.com/news/firefoxs-blazing-speed-with-hu...
I've become a big fan of "The Great Suspender" extension since I am always opening new tabs in the background and may not get around to them until hours -- or sometimes days! -- later.
On Chrome I presume? Not available on FF, and afaik FF doesn't even support unloading tabs (actually unloading from memory rather than making it appear that way but still consuming the memory).
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> They even got rid of that search bar, haha. It's actually configurable by the user. I like having it on the side, so I added it back.
How? I was looking for this last week and couldn't find any settings that worked. Nothing relevant in about:config, and the toolbar customization shows the search bar there until I close customization.
They actually very recently added a preference for this: https://dolske.files.wordpress.com/2017/09/searchprefs.png?w...
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There are functioning development builds of TST as a WebExtension. This is what it looked like last month: https://i.imgur.com/IBx8F6L.png Not sure how that translates to "not caring." Edit: Oh, hey, look, the WebExtension version has been published: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tree-style-ta...
1) It’s been constantly broken and re-fixed for years versions after versions 2) they do not reply to his requests or bugfiles 3) they could have made it a default in Firefox
Regarding 3, no they couldn't have. You're vastly overestimating how many people use it. I've seen 1 person using it, and I work in IT. Outside of IT the percentage is probably smaller...
Re: Firefox Quantum Lands in Beta, Developer Edition
#409Seeing some comments about Firefox vs Chrome on macOS below, here's my experience ... After several years of using Chrome I've switched to Firefox and I'm not going back. I do occasionally use Chrome, like for Node.js profiling. In terms of performance, Firefox has been behaving better than Chrome for my usage patterns, using less memory too. Usage patterns matter a lot though. For example Google's own apps (e.g. G S…
> Mozilla has a trustworthy review system in place
Note that they're switching the review system to a fully automated one (initially): https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2017/09/21/review-wait-times...
It's still supposed to be trustworthy though, but I'm guessing Chrome's similar.
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Very interesting, that does appear to be the case - likewise for VimFx. From what I gather, the go-to Vim plugin after this year will be Vimium (which I currently use on Chrome), although it hasn't yet been ported to FF 57.
Yes, but in VimFx's case it's more a matter of the developer not feeling like it considering Vimium is available, which for me has been a drop-in replacement of VimFx. I just assumed that as you mentioned Vimperator, you wanted the complete, somewhat more invasive, experience.
Note: I should correct this. It's not about the developer not feeling like it, but about him only wanting to do it without having to work around API limitations like Vimium had to: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1215061#c3