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I have the same feeling on everything except security, but electrolysis should help with that. http://m.slashdot.org/story/199459
NoScript + ABP you are free of 99% of web hacks out there.
My love for Chrome ended and I switched back to Firefox about 3 months ago. The switch went well and I'm happy with my choice. Reasons: 1. First version of Chrome for the desktop supported extensions, because it was competing with a popular Firefox, and now on Android they don't give a shit about enabling users to customize the behavior of their browser, which pisses me off. So I switched to Firefox on my Android bec…
> the Awesome Bar (which does a good job of doing full text searches in my history, much better than what other browsers are capable of I'm surprised that the other browsers are still so much worse on this front, and that this difference doesn't get more attention. Firefox's implementation is fantastic and has been for years and years.
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> the Awesome Bar (which does a good job of doing full text searches in my history, much better than what other browsers are capable of I'm surprised that the other browsers are still so much worse on this front, and that this difference doesn't get more attention. Firefox's implementation is fantastic and has been for years and years.
Probably because others are too eager to fill out the results via an online search than from your history, and I doubt if that is because they have your best interests at heart.
The problem is that many times I can remember an article I've read or a link I visited only vaguely, by a single word in the title or something like that. Well, try searching for a single word on Google.
For example, I tried typing "manifesto". Firefox's Awesome Bar suggested to me amongst others: a YouTube video called "Firefox Manifesto 2012" (watched it yesterday), a blog article on a website titled "The Social Customer Manifesto" and a link to ReactiveManifesto.org.
I typed the same in Chrome and note that I keep Chrome around and it has a very rich history. Guess what Chrome gave me? Nothing from my history. It only gave me search suggestions like "manifesto definition", "manifesto lyrics" and "manifesto of the communist party".
So that's a big problem. You remember a single word or two. You want something from your history. Firefox does a good job at suggesting from my history. Chrome expects me to do searches on Google. I wouldn't mind those searches, but they aren't solving my problem.
So yes, that's why Firefox is back again to being the browser I love most. Along with Tab Groups and efficient UI tweaks that I can do, I find it hard to use anything else.
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NoScript + ABP you are free of 99% of web hacks out there.
true ... but your web experience suffers for it. ying and yang.
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NoScript + ABP you are free of 99% of web hacks out there.
I have started using NoScript by itself recently, it should remove all the annoying ads and let the good ones trough.
Did anyone else donate to appear in the New York Times ad? https://blog.mozilla.org/press/2004/12/mozilla-foundation-pl...
My love for Chrome ended and I switched back to Firefox about 3 months ago. The switch went well and I'm happy with my choice. Reasons: 1. First version of Chrome for the desktop supported extensions, because it was competing with a popular Firefox, and now on Android they don't give a shit about enabling users to customize the behavior of their browser, which pisses me off. So I switched to Firefox on my Android bec…
FF is awesome, if i wasn't an android guy, I'd be using it exclusively. But chrome android Just Works™
In my opinion, Firefox for android is vastly superior to chrome.
Pinch zooming is for the birds compared to that, and Firefox still hasn't updated to fit in with the Android default gestures (Since JB or KitKat I think).
“10 years ago we built Firefox ----to-give-you-a-choice--- because we realized how horribly we had botched Netscape Navigator.” fixed