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How to Firefox
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What do you recommend to non-Apple users?
No idea, I'm Apple user in large part because of privacy and security it offers. Bonus - you get nice hardware :) EDIT: have a look at ungoogled-chromium, I have it as a second browser on my Mac: https://github.com/ungoogled-software/ungoogled-chromium
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#493Earlier quoted context omitted.
What do you recommend to non-Apple users?
No idea, I'm Apple user in large part because of privacy and security it offers. Bonus - you get nice hardware :) EDIT: have a look at ungoogled-chromium, I have it as a second browser on my Mac: https://github.com/ungoogled-software/ungoogled-chromium
Might as well use Brave at that point if I'm tying my fate to Chromium, though I appreciate your confirmation that there's no non-Chromium option to prioritize over Firefox on Android.
Sounds like I'll stick with Firefox and consider it to be the primary non-Chromium recommendation for 74% of the world's smartphone users who aren't on Apple.
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#494A tip I would add to this article is that Firefox natively supports sidebar tabs now without needing hacky extensions. Go to about:preferences under the Browser Layout section of the General tab, and select Vertical Tabs. The tab group functionality along with Multi-Account Containers are a lot more useful under this layout IMO.
Once they add native split screen like Edge has, FF will be perfect for me. I hope the split-screen implementation isn't as clunky as Edge's though.
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#495If you’re having performance issues with firefox and thunderbird, I recommend vacuuming the sqlite files under your profile. Compacting mailbox helps TB as well.
Yeah, I think it's been done automatically for the past decade or so but I'm still in the habit of running a quick vacuum every time I restart my computer (typically for Debian point release upgrades, so every 3 months-ish). It's probably pure cargo-culting at this point, but unlikely to be actively harmful: find $HOME/.mozilla/ \( -name "*.sqlite" \) -exec sqlite3 {} "vacuum" \; My Firefox profile is at least 20 yea…
If they’re having performance problems, then something went wrong. May be this or something else, but worth a try.
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What I've found recently is that Linux is surprisingly Firefox's achilles' heel. Canvas and WebGL run easily an order of magnitude slower than Chromium. Check with https://webglsamples.org if you don't believe it. All of it runs capped at 60 fps on Chrome for me, Firefox struggles to break 30 on mid tier settings in aquarium and stutters horribly throughout most of them. I'm sure it's fast at loading static sites, bu…
I've been using Firefox since it was called Firebird, and Linux has always been a 2nd zone citizen. Most Mozilla developers are on Mac, most users are on Windows, so Linux have never been the focus.
Many Firefox devs are on Linux; however note that not many Firefox users are on Linux (mostly because desktop Linux has a much much smaller userbase than Windows or Mac). About 4% are Linux, looks like 8-10% Mac, the rest Windows:
https://data.firefox.com/dashboard/hardware
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Try indexeddb. Apparently Firefox is faster than Chrome in recent years when it comes to putting items into a database, but my experience with multi-gigabyte databases (the database contains image blobs and metadata for use as a local webapp) is that chrome is far faster than Firefox. I'd rather use Firefox sure to increased indexeddb limits (for mobile devices with limited storage), but it's just that much slower. I…
Hmm that might also be contributing to dogshit Firefox performance on a web app of mine, I'm using that to store and fetch map tiles. Though that's all async so it shouldn't really matter in terms of rendering aside from having to wait a bit longer to retrieve. But it already lags like fuck even without that part running or anything much at all, while being buttersmooth on Chrome almost regardless of how much I load…
What's the webapp? Can you file a bug in Bugzilla in Core::Performance with steps to reproduce?
Can you take a profile? https://profiler.firefox.com You can attach it to the bug, or drop it in #perf on https://chat.mozilla.org (Matrix)
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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.
Fixed by restarting tabs?
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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.
There's a few pain points with containers; whenever I'm browsing in a container tab, I wish CMD-T opened a new container tab, not my default tab. I haven't been able to find a setting for this :/ I also wish there were more keyboard shortcuts for opening links in specific containers, or re-opening a current tab in a different one. I know you can set certain domains to always open in certain containers - fine for Face…
Open a new tab for a certain container with Cmd-1 (or Cmd-Shift-1, I forgot) for the first container in your list, with 2 for the second, etc.
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#500I've been using Brave Browser for a while. And I don't have any problems with Brave. However, I got curious because of this article. Installed Firefox, and configured it following the article. And I love it so far! It's much more configurable than Brave. Also, add-ons that work on mobile is a nice feature. I think Brave's adblocking must be better because it happens on the browser level. However, I didn't have any issues with uBO so far.