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Firefox is back. It's time to give it a try

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Re: Firefox is back. It's time to give it a try

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Post by ghaff »

SparkyMcUnicorn wrote: post #21
ghaff wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not sure I understand. I routinely have a personal Google Drive tab and a work tab in Chrome. Ditto with email.

Is this a Google accounts feature or a browser feature? I switched to FF for Container Tabs, and use it for much more than Google accounts.

Two disconnected accounts.

ADDED: In general a lot of services don't handle multiple accounts terribly well. I've had issues with Wordpress as well. I actually have two different soft-key authenticator programs related to making personal and work accounts play nice.

Re: Firefox is back. It's time to give it a try

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Post by toss1 »

arf wrote: post #41

I did give it a try. I used it like I use Chrome. Many tabs open and keeping them open for a couple of days. I did that a couple of times. It, of course, crashed every single time and for some reason made my 4GHz quad-core i7 with 64Gb memory freeze for 5 minutes where I couldn't even ^d in a terminal.

Interesting, I do the same -- dozens of tabs open in multiple windows, for multiple days, and it hasn't crashed in probably over a year.

Different machines, this one is: Intel I-6700-HQ 2.6GHz 4-core/8 logical 16GB RAM...

Re: Firefox is back. It's time to give it a try

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Post by nimbius »

1. does it still require me to use pulseaudio to compile it. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1345661

2. does it still send DNS data to third parties for analytics. https://www.ghacks.net/2018/03/20/firefox-dns-over-https-and...

3. Am i still required to build Pocket when I build Firefox? are we still forbidden from removing pocket?

4. Is telemetry still shipped on by default? https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/08/24/mozilla_considers_m...

Then no, its certainly not time for me to try firefox.

Re: Firefox is back. It's time to give it a try

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Post by SimeVidas »

didgeoridoo wrote: post #3

Ironically, the thing that drove me to Firefox was the excellent Account Containers system that I found necessary to manage being logged into multiple Google Apps accounts simultaneously (I have five ). Each tab owns one account — that way, Google Drive files from my work don't randomly refuse to open because I'm also logged into my personal account. (Chrome has no solution for containing accounts across tabs, last I…

For me it’s Twitter. With container tabs, it’s so easy to manage multiple Twitter accounts. I couldn’t live without it.

Re: Firefox is back. It's time to give it a try

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Post by just_one_time_ »

SparkyMcUnicorn wrote: post #21
ghaff wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not sure I understand. I routinely have a personal Google Drive tab and a work tab in Chrome. Ditto with email.

Is this a Google accounts feature or a browser feature? I switched to FF for Container Tabs, and use it for much more than Google accounts.

Yes, it does work now in Chrome, I think it just changed is most recent update so not sure why guy above is acting like its alwasy been that way, I'd say its time to try Chromium (Brave) again.

Re: Firefox is back. It's time to give it a try

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Post by greglindahl »

arf wrote: post #41

I did give it a try. I used it like I use Chrome. Many tabs open and keeping them open for a couple of days. I did that a couple of times. It, of course, crashed every single time and for some reason made my 4GHz quad-core i7 with 64Gb memory freeze for 5 minutes where I couldn't even ^d in a terminal.

I keep FF open for weeks at a time with dozens of tabs, only 16 gigs of ram, no problem.

Re: Firefox is back. It's time to give it a try

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Post by make3 »

nimbius wrote: post #53

1. does it still require me to use pulseaudio to compile it. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1345661 2. does it still send DNS data to third parties for analytics. https://www.ghacks.net/2018/03/20/firefox-dns-over-https-and... 3. Am i still required to build Pocket when I build Firefox? are we still forbidden from removing pocket? 4. Is telemetry still shipped on by default? https://www.theregister.co.u…

They mean, as an alternative to Chrome, which is undoubtedly less open then Firefox.

So, genuine question, what do you use, then? GNU IceCat?

Re: Firefox is back. It's time to give it a try

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Post by stamps »

nimbius wrote: post #53

1. does it still require me to use pulseaudio to compile it. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1345661 2. does it still send DNS data to third parties for analytics. https://www.ghacks.net/2018/03/20/firefox-dns-over-https-and... 3. Am i still required to build Pocket when I build Firefox? are we still forbidden from removing pocket? 4. Is telemetry still shipped on by default? https://www.theregister.co.u…

What browser do you recommend?

Re: Firefox is back. It's time to give it a try

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Post by tomnipotent »

nimbius wrote: post #53

1. does it still require me to use pulseaudio to compile it. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1345661 2. does it still send DNS data to third parties for analytics. https://www.ghacks.net/2018/03/20/firefox-dns-over-https-and... 3. Am i still required to build Pocket when I build Firefox? are we still forbidden from removing pocket? 4. Is telemetry still shipped on by default? https://www.theregister.co.u…

This sums it up nicely. I refuse to use Firefox until they remove Pocket, it's an absolute tragedy that it was ever included by default and forced onto a user base that never asked for it.
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