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Re: How to Firefox

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Post by jppj »

tl;dr - how to Firefox? Blind taste test.

Had been using Arc for some time with several qualms about the UX and after trying Dia and finding it's just yet another Chrome, decided to see what Zen is like. I expected the same - but it wasn't. All qualms were solved and I had no rendering problems.

It was only when I noticed the Mozilla login flow I realized I had switched to Firefox - I had an assumption that all alternative browsers are on Chromium now. Really lucky since if I knew, I may not have given a fair chance given the rendering problems I remember from giving it a try 3-4 years ago.

Re: How to Firefox

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Post by muizelaar »

sto11z wrote: post #44

I tried transitioning to FF from Chrome several times, but it just feels so unresonsive and slow in comparison. I really wanted to, but ultimately couldn't. On a side note: You can manually install uBlock and just continue using it: - Enter chrome://flags in chrome’s URL input - Search for ‘Allow legacy extension manifest versions’ - Enable it and relaunch browser - Download the latest zip file of uBlock version from…

What parts felt unresponsive and slow?

Re: How to Firefox

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Post by pritambaral »

akazantsev wrote: post #5

Firefox has no profiles. It has a bunch of hacks, such as containers, which are cumbersome to use. Chromium provides separate windows with different profiles, and Firefox should follow Chromium here. Firefox's "solution" forces you to switch Github tabs between personal and work containers constantly.

> Firefox has no profiles.

Patently false. Been using profiles for years.

> bunch of hacks, such as containers, which are cumbersome to use. Firefox's "solution" forces you to switch Github tabs between personal and work containers constantly.

Rarely have I had to that. Until I added rules to open certain URLs in specific containers.

> Chromium provides separate windows with different profiles, and Firefox should follow Chromium here.

Absolutely not. Profiles are a poor "alternative" to containers. How do I add a rule to pin URLs to specific profiles? How would that even work, if it did? A new window for some links? Re-use some random window with the same profile? How do I switch to it? Switch back? Don't tell me to use the Window Manager via Alt-Tab. I organise tabs into windows by shared context.

Then there's the whole issue of sync. Profiles don't share anything. Each profile needs to be configured individually. I like not having to add uBlock Origin to every browser profile. I like not having to think if I have my password for this rarely visited site in this profile or another one. Or a bookmark. Or form info.

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Just because containers have no use to you / you couldn't find a use for them, doesn't mean the rest of us also shouldn't have the luxury of using this feature. Feel free to use Profiles as you'd like. Leave what works for us alone.

Re: How to Firefox

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Post by Larrikin »

germandiago wrote: post #33
pta2002 wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is weird to me because I so much prefer Firefox's per-tab containers to having to use separate windows for profiles. I wish chrome had something like it.

The problem here IMHO is that when many tabs are open it becomes confusing quickly which tabs have what. With a profile everything is clear. I used Firefox and I like it but honestly the profiles were more difficult to use than Chrome's.

Are you one of those people with a thousand tabs open so the tabs shrink to just the icon? Even in that extreme case, everything is color coded and the URL bar labels it.

Re: How to Firefox

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Post by homebrewer »

rwc wrote: post #43
thoroughburro wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No, I don’t agree. And Linux does run Windows software and games; I use this ability all the time. Are there really people who read that and think “ALL Windows software and games” is implied? Bizarre to me.

Yes. If you say you’re compatible with Windows software and games, my expectation as a user is that everything “just works”.

By your definition, Windows is not compatible with Windows.

Re: How to Firefox

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Post by TechDebtDevin »

Ygg2 wrote: post #45
sto11z wrote: post #44

I tried transitioning to FF from Chrome several times, but it just feels so unresonsive and slow in comparison. I really wanted to, but ultimately couldn't. On a side note: You can manually install uBlock and just continue using it: - Enter chrome://flags in chrome’s URL input - Search for ‘Allow legacy extension manifest versions’ - Enable it and relaunch browser - Download the latest zip file of uBlock version from…

Understandable. I tried moving from Firefox to Chrome but I couldn't. Pages are so slow to load and there are adds everywhere.

I'm curious what would make you even want to try with all the shenanigans Google has been up to. It seems obvious that its a bad idea.

Re: How to Firefox

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Post by _benj »

homebrewer wrote: post #48
eclecticfrank wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Give us an example where Chrome is faster than Firefox, so we can see if it is more important than having uBlock Origin. I use both Firefox and Chrome for work and haven't noticed any speed differences (without measuring).

If your life has been as unfair to you as it has been to some of us, and forced you to work on SPAs as the result, try opening any large frontend project that uses Vite (or any other dev server that serves each file separately instead of bundling them). If you're unfamiliar with this stuff, it results in your browser fetching thousands of JavaScript files from the local dev server. Any Chromium-based browser handles…

> If your life has been as unfair to you as it has been to some of us, and forced you to work on SPAs as the result…

Hehe

Re: How to Firefox

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Post by jhasse »

eclecticfrank wrote: post #22
esskay wrote: post #3

I really struggled going back to Firefox after being a Chrome user for so long, it just feels so incredibly slow in comparison - I know it's probably just perception but I couldn't shake that feeling. I ended up going with Brave. Once you turn off their crummy VPN and crypto advert it's effectively just google chrome with a built in ad blocker. I know there were arguments/concerns about the crypto thing, but I did a…

Give us an example where Chrome is faster than Firefox, so we can see if it is more important than having uBlock Origin. I use both Firefox and Chrome for work and haven't noticed any speed differences (without measuring).

https://www.browserating.com/#rankings

Re: How to Firefox

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Post by uallo »

sto11z wrote: post #44

I tried transitioning to FF from Chrome several times, but it just feels so unresonsive and slow in comparison. I really wanted to, but ultimately couldn't. On a side note: You can manually install uBlock and just continue using it: - Enter chrome://flags in chrome’s URL input - Search for ‘Allow legacy extension manifest versions’ - Enable it and relaunch browser - Download the latest zip file of uBlock version from…

> You can manually install uBlock and just continue using it

Only with Chrome 138 and lower. Chrome 139 will not support Manifest V2 anymore.

https://developer.chrome.com/docs/extensions/develop/migrate...

Seriously, use Firefox if you want to use uBlock Origin.

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