For many years, Firefox is my development browsers because I thought I would run into perf issue, problematic/weird behaviour more often. But recently I develop on app on Firefox for many months, then test it on Chrome, dang! It's almost 3x slower (rendering lots of dom nodes). So now I've switched to Chrome for development because if it's fast on Chrome it's going to be very fast on Firefox.
Reasons to ditch Chrome and use Firefox
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Re: Reasons to ditch Chrome and use Firefox
#52I'm still using Firefox as my primary browser on desktop and mobile. I have minor complaints, but nothing to make me consider switching to something else.
It's really nice on Android to have extensions like YouTube background player and uBlock origin.
That’s the only thing I really miss from Android (F-Droid was precious to me but I don’t miss it as much).
Re: Reasons to ditch Chrome and use Firefox
#53Mozilla? Thanks but no thanks.
Care to expand on your aversion to Mozilla?
While I don’t share the aversion toward Mozilla, I do think it a strange company.
For some reason their focus seems directed towards everything that’s specifically not Firefox or browser related. Sort of if Microsoft forgot that they own Windows.
Re: Reasons to ditch Chrome and use Firefox
#54>Automatic blocking of autoplay videos And then this very site has an automatic playing video in the article lmao Also a lot of these claims are so-so imo. "Lighter on system resources" "Speedier website browsing" I usually have 60-70 tabs open across 5-6 windows. Firefox absolutely shits itself all the time but Chromium doesn't. Anyways I use ungoogled-chromium https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium
The video doesn't play when I open the page. Youtube doesn't autoplay either; the tab neatly says "auto-play blocked".
Note that browsers permit playing a video upon any "user interaction", i.e. a key press or a click.
Re: Reasons to ditch Chrome and use Firefox
#55I have been using Firefox since 1.5 or so, and will keep using it because I value customizability.
I keep Chromium around for web development, but it has a lot of issues with Wayland (not to be confused with XWayland) currently.
Re: Reasons to ditch Chrome and use Firefox
#56You know, I did that. Firefox is great, but it's using 600mb of RAM on my meager 2012 MacBook Air.
I'm regretably looking for alternatives. Probably Safari if I manage to get adblock.
I think it's better on Linux.
Re: Reasons to ditch Chrome and use Firefox
#57>Automatic blocking of autoplay videos And then this very site has an automatic playing video in the article lmao Also a lot of these claims are so-so imo. "Lighter on system resources" "Speedier website browsing" I usually have 60-70 tabs open across 5-6 windows. Firefox absolutely shits itself all the time but Chromium doesn't. Anyways I use ungoogled-chromium https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium
> I usually have 60-70 tabs open across 5-6 windows. Firefox absolutely shits itself all the time but Chromium doesn't. Last time I checked I had a few thousand tabs open with Firefox and it doesn't do anything except use memory.
I use an extension called autoTabDiscard (or something close) that unloads webpages that I didn't access the last 10 minutes, or that doesn't load any tab on startup, but the tabs keep existing in both cases. Then you can setup exceptions as well.
That's an essential for me.
Re: Reasons to ditch Chrome and use Firefox
#58I use Libre Wolf, which is a pre-configured Firefox with enhanced privacy. They still support the FF Sync stuff.
Similarly for vscode, there is vscodium.
Re: Reasons to ditch Chrome and use Firefox
#59I honestly want to ditch Firefox and try a Chromium browser for a minute [1], but I'm stuck on Firefox because it's the only one with a killer feature: send a tab to/from iOS and my Linux desktop. I skip Chrome and Edge for privacy reasons, Brave have a crappy and buggy sync feature that I don't know what OSes it supports, but not my combination. Can't send tabs with them. Vivaldi doesn't have an iOS port. Impossible…
The super-annoying thing about that, is that you need a Sync-Server, and an "Identity" server to run this all without having sign in to "Firefox Sync". The sync-server is trivial to run via docker, but (last time i checked) running the other essential part yourself is (intentionally?) not easy at all.
Is this serious? Your criciticism is that... they offer their service and the possibility to self-host?
Re: Reasons to ditch Chrome and use Firefox
#60I'm still using Firefox as my primary browser on desktop and mobile. I have minor complaints, but nothing to make me consider switching to something else.
It's really nice on Android to have extensions like YouTube background player and uBlock origin.
Any YouTube I watch on android I watch on NewPipe. It's amazing.