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In 2024, please switch to Firefox

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Re: In 2024, please switch to Firefox

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Post by tejohnso »

TheCleric wrote: post #42
AureliusDreamer wrote: post #22

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Brave runs on Chrome and has some of the highest privacy protections. I love Firefox, but just questioning if there aren’t good solutions available on Chrome. And while Apple may not have a business model as focused on selling data, they still have a growing ad business + weaker protections against fingerprinting and ad blocking

Brave’s internal ads and crypto weirdness are enough for me to be uncomfortable with it.

What internal ads? I see 0 ads while using brave because of its internal ad blocker.

Crypto features are an easy toggle to disable. The toggle isn't hidden, doesn't re-enable itself, and isn't weird in any way.

Re: In 2024, please switch to Firefox

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Post by nashashmi »

Vinnl wrote: post #230
nashashmi wrote: post #61

Firefox needs bookmarkable containers. It is almost there ... Bookmarkable Containers are opening bookmarks in a specific container. And I don't like the hacked extension that implements this feature as a workaround using container sites.

Someone yesterday mentioned this extension: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/open-url-in-c... As I understand it, that would allow you to add a bookmark for `ext+container:name=MyContainer&url= https://mozilla.org `, which would open mozilla.org in MyContainer.

Not a fail. It has the annoyance of after clicking the bookmark, it closes the tab I am in and opening a new tab. This cannot be reversed by ctrl+shift+t. I end up losing my history of the closed tab.

Otherwise, it works.

Re: In 2024, please switch to Firefox

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Post by hutzlibu »

beeboobaa wrote: post #250
hutzlibu wrote: post #214

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"Firefox out of the box indeed does not cause broken websites" .. for you. I regulary ran across something that does not work or has a broken style. And I know how to turn UO off. And why should that be a surprise? FF has way less manpower than Chrome. (And even fired lots of engineers, to raise the CEO bonus) Chrome leads the way and probably the vast majority developes for chrome and with chrome dev tools. So most…

This has absolutely not been my experience. Must be a different extension you installed.

Or I just visit different websites?

Re: In 2024, please switch to Firefox

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Post by hn_throwaway_99 »

TheFuzzball wrote: post #187
hn_throwaway_99 wrote: post #95

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Curious, can you give some examples of PWAs you use, and why? I've rarely seen any benefit of actually installing a PWA vs just bookmarking the site. On mobile, I could see privacy reasons for wanting to use a PWA vs a native app, but every time I've seen a site that supports a PWA, they also support a native app and the PWA is usually a sad substitute in comparison.

I use PWAs for YouTube Music, Slack, and Readwise Reader. Sometimes there is a standalone app available, like with Slack, but often the PWA has the same features and doesn't duplicate the entire Web Platform stack (Electron), which saves some battery.

Thanks, the Slack example is a good one, I just use the electron app now but there is no reason I shouldn't use the PWA.

Re: In 2024, please switch to Firefox

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Post by porridgeraisin »

hn_throwaway_99 wrote: post #95
Slackwise wrote: post #44

I use PWAs extensively and Firefox decided they won't bother to implement them, so that's going to be a no from me. Rather than wanting the web platform to be first class, they really want it to languish as a second-class citizen. Really sad, seeing as they also fired devs, and invested in "AI" instead.

Curious, can you give some examples of PWAs you use, and why? I've rarely seen any benefit of actually installing a PWA vs just bookmarking the site. On mobile, I could see privacy reasons for wanting to use a PWA vs a native app, but every time I've seen a site that supports a PWA, they also support a native app and the PWA is usually a sad substitute in comparison.

Photopea, it's a web based photo editor that is really really great. If you install it as a PWA, it works offline. Similarly, excalidraw, monkeytype, google calendar all work offline if you install it as a PWA.

Apart from that, I have youtube music, slack, discord, whatsapp web just for convenience of having it in alt+tab rather than cycle through a thousand tabs (admittedly, this usecase is nullified by tab search)

Re: In 2024, please switch to Firefox

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Post by redcobra762 »

latexr wrote: post #381
redcobra762 wrote: post #260

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The YouTube app is also a perfect YouTube player, so I’m confused…

I haven’t used the official YouTube app, but I seriously doubt it’s ad-free and that it lets you download videos.

It does both, actually!
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