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Just checked AGH, and it's blocking 49.56% of my DNS queries for everything that's connected. I cannot recommend AGH on an RPi highly enough. It's amazing.
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I use youtube a worrying amount, all through firefox (and I am also an ADHD 1000 tabs open person), and I have never had this experience across multiple computers.
You need to keep the same youtube tab open and navigate the website a considerable amount on it for it to occur. I use the same tabs repeatedly, and by the end of the day I get an incredibly sluggish site. Not the end of the world, since I just close the tab and start a new one, but it does exist. Firefox has had documented issues with youtube for the better part of a decade at least.
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I use youtube a worrying amount, all through firefox (and I am also an ADHD 1000 tabs open person), and I have never had this experience across multiple computers.
Youtube freezes for me on Windows with Firefox. Sometimes it freezes the whole browser so added a rule to block it in uBo and use another browser for it (which also helps me reduce my time on youtube thanks to the added friction). I don't know if its an issue with my specific hardware or what. In Mac and Linux (different PC) it works fine.
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> there's occasionally sites that have bugs because [...people build for Chrome...] I hear that a lot, but when I tried Firefox for a couple of months I only found that in a single case[1]. It's really not something that happened to me at all. I did encounter issues with ad blockers breaking sites. Disabling uBO helps quite often on misbehaving sites, but it does so on Chrome as well. > I am surprised how many people…
Bookmarks definitely sync with Firefox sync. I have the same bookmarks on all of my devices. Extension settings can sync, I don't know exactly if it is opt-in or opt-out but some extensions do sync on desktop. The mobile situation is definitely different, mobile doesn't sync to desktop. I don't know if different mobile devices sync with each other (I only have one).
Yeah, I meant search engines. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44647014
> Extension settings can sync, I don't know exactly if it is opt-in or opt-out but some extensions do sync on desktop.
I mostly tried with uBO. Couldn't get it to work.
I am surprised how many people have so many problems with Firefox. I've never felt impeded by loading speeds, and my ADHD regularly has me forgetting to restart it, to the tune of 100+ tabs open across multiple desktops. My wimply little MacBook Pro doesn't seem to mind. The only downside I've found is that, because so many people just default to "Chrome or nothing," there's occasionally sites that have bugs because,…
It should be "mobile users rejoice". I get the same sync'ing benefits from Firefox on iOS. And it lets apps use desktop passwords that I've saved in firefox and sync'ed.
Lots of Firefox hate here, but little discussion about the articles kicker, which is the exclusion of uBlock Origin from Chrome. I hope this will mean that in the long run Firefox (and other secondary browsers) will gain more users again. For me, Firefox is a solid piece of software. Works well in strict privacy mode, with uBlock Origin and Multi-Account Containers.
Multi-Account Containers is a major feature I can't sing the praises for enough. I use it all the time, both to isolate stuff to break cookie tracking, and to enable me to log into things with two different accounts without opening a separate browser, which happens more often than I'd have thought.
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Is Chrome being cached? This is actually not a good test because there are a lot of tricky and subtle things that can make the comparison highly unfair. Smartphones will cache apps so that they don't fully close. Then, if you do actually force kill them they will start up in the background. Are we surprised a Google phone caches the Google browser which is considered to be a high priority app, commonly used, and even…
>This is actually not a good test It is a realistic user scenario, which in my opinion makes it a good test. The real world performance is what matters here. The user doesn't care if technically there is some trick that is being used to "cheat."
[1]: you actually can with devtools and dexie import export, but it always times out for my databases. Meanwhile on Firefox you can just use devtools to backup the entire profile directory and then replace it in-place.
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>This is actually not a good test It is a realistic user scenario, which in my opinion makes it a good test. The real world performance is what matters here. The user doesn't care if technically there is some trick that is being used to "cheat."
> The user doesn't care if technically there is some trick that is being used to "cheat." You framed the "benchmark" around performance, not perceived performance. Those are two very different things. We're on HN, so don't be surprised when people correct you or nitpick. Either accept the clarification (if it is correct), clarify what you originally intended to say (without being overly defensive), or move on. Beside…
The only reliable way I've found to use termux (as an ssh client, not anything high-resource) and Firefox at the same time is to use multi window, dragging termux out of the way of the keyboard every time I switch, as Firefox will regularly need to be reloaded otherwise; if I'm on certain heavy or lazy-loading websites or using a link with a hash in it, it'll then also lose my scroll position. This is particularly frustrating when I ssh into minimized containers with no command completion or man pages.
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>This is actually not a good test It is a realistic user scenario, which in my opinion makes it a good test. The real world performance is what matters here. The user doesn't care if technically there is some trick that is being used to "cheat."
This is true, but it also applies to not just the chrome browser by Google itself, but also to derivatives (I don't actually use chrome proper unless I need to disable adblock; I still use Kiwi browser for my PWAs, because you can't export your browser profile from one device to another for Chrome[1]) [1]: you actually can with devtools and dexie import export, but it always times out for my databases. Meanwhile on F…