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I've started using Firefox and can never go back to Chrome
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Re: I've started using Firefox and can never go back to Chrome
#592Earlier quoted context omitted.
I never switched to Chrome, always used Firefox. But it increasingly got more config-involving to make FF do what I wanted and maybe I overdid some settings/plugins and websites started to show incorrectly. Also the imho (much) too high salary for the CEO annoyed me (Mozilla is supposed to be "Internet for people, not profit"). Tried Brave and it was a nice experience after some initial cost to e.g. disable crypto. S…
How much was the CEO getting paid?
I'm no expert, just reading web pages: Apparently Firefox market share dropped from 30% to 3.46 over the same time her income went from 500 k to 4 million.
An old write up: https://calpaterson.com/mozilla.html
Re: I've started using Firefox and can never go back to Chrome
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TST is literally the killer feature for FF. It's actually the only reason I went to FF, it was getting out of hand to have all my tabs across the top, and it makes little sense with modern screens being so wide that giving up a little horizontal space to get legible titles is absolutely worth it. Someone in Chrome/Edge/Safari must be thinking about doing this, I don't know why it hasn't been cloned. Can't be too hard…
> I don't know why it hasn't been cloned it's a elitist feature. pretty sure that most ppl on the internet don't know what a tab is. opera had vertical, grouped tabs over twenty years ago.
TST might be niche but the concept of a tab in general is not something only understood by technically savvy people. We’re not in the era of IE6 anymore.
Re: I've started using Firefox and can never go back to Chrome
#594You'll have to pry Firefox from my cold, dead hands! At the outset, yes, chromium based browsers feel snappier.. But, stuff that Chrome will not have and are absolutely essential 1. Containers... I use another unverified extension to match urls and automatically assign containers... 2. Ublock origin 3. Tree style tabs 4. Developer console... Edit and resend any request That said, i still end up using chromium for tea…
I am confused about the "I don't have any other choice" comment. I assume you mean because Firefox doesn't support whatever teams uses for meeting audio/video, or maybe it's the install feature you mentioned, but I use Firefox for both and use my phone for meetings.
basically that workplace uses teams & office
Teams web is crippled on FF with no video sharing & filters last I checked... Teams app is also crippled on linux - so the webapp is preferable.
Outlook's been broken the last week - just doesn't load and the service worker seems to get stuck in a loop.
Re: I've started using Firefox and can never go back to Chrome
#595You'll have to pry Firefox from my cold, dead hands! At the outset, yes, chromium based browsers feel snappier.. But, stuff that Chrome will not have and are absolutely essential 1. Containers... I use another unverified extension to match urls and automatically assign containers... 2. Ublock origin 3. Tree style tabs 4. Developer console... Edit and resend any request That said, i still end up using chromium for tea…
Which container extension are you using for domain grouping? I've been looking for a good one
https://gitlab.com/NamingThingsIsHard/firefox/bifulushi
It's a fork of kintesh/containerise which seems unmaintained and had case problems.
It's not on FF addons site - so please satisfy yourself that it isn't doing sinister stuff before installing.
Re: I've started using Firefox and can never go back to Chrome
#596Earlier quoted context omitted.
The right click mouse gestures of Opera were great for quickly navigating back/forward and creating new tabs.
I never stopped using them. I never could stop using them, it feels so clumsy to work a PC without gestures. I am currently using StrokesPlus.net for this purpose, I am sure there are others.
Long ago MyIE2 had the most sophisticated mouse gestures. For example: One could select some text, drag it and it would search. (I had search configured to open non advertisement results in background tabs) If the text contained any links it in stead opened each of them in tabs to the right. So you selected the entire menu of the blog and tossed it to the right. There were gestures to move to the tab on the left or right but also to close the current tab AND move to the left or right. This was important to dig though an enormous pile of preloaded tabs you still had to look at. Things went so fast I got tired after surfing for a few hours.
Re: I've started using Firefox and can never go back to Chrome
#597Earlier quoted context omitted.
Its only killer feature to me is that websites are designed and tested with a Chromium-first attitude. As a regular FF user I might stumble upon a website that’s quite buggy or straight up doesn’t work, which forces me to use Chrome for that specific website. Other than that I don’t really feel like there’s anything, and Edge is currently a better Chrome than Chrome anyway. EDIT: and for the record, I’m still upset M…
I've been an FF user and developer of many frontends for years and the amount of times I run into serious differences between browsers is somewhere near zero.
...in the past decade, for me.
It once was a serious problem. No more
Re: I've started using Firefox and can never go back to Chrome
#598Is there really a killer feature of Chrome that justifies its use over FF? I've been using Firefox and have never been disappointed with it. I always just assumed that if you wanted privacy, it's better to use Firefox over Chrome, Safari, or Brave.
Chrome works better with google crap, by design. That's about the only reason I ever use chromium.
I have to use laods of Google Crap at work.
I use Firefox. It works OK. Is that why I think the Google docs are not very good?
I am on a Mac (for work) so in reality I am using Safari it seems from what I have been reading!
Re: I've started using Firefox and can never go back to Chrome
#599Is there really a killer feature of Chrome that justifies its use over FF? I've been using Firefox and have never been disappointed with it. I always just assumed that if you wanted privacy, it's better to use Firefox over Chrome, Safari, or Brave.
I use FF, but I have at times had to switch to Chrome for extended periods of time when performance of FF was bad after a particular release - maybe about 9-10 years ago? I think a lot of people experienced the same thing at the time, moved off and never moved back.
I am a faithful user of FF. It was difficult about a decade ago. The performance was not great.
Over the past few years it has gotten much better. Out of sight better.
Is it the Rust project? I do not know. But I no longer have to suffer nobly, FF is just better
Re: I've started using Firefox and can never go back to Chrome
#600Earlier quoted context omitted.
I am confused about the "I don't have any other choice" comment. I assume you mean because Firefox doesn't support whatever teams uses for meeting audio/video, or maybe it's the install feature you mentioned, but I use Firefox for both and use my phone for meetings.
basically that workplace uses teams & office Teams web is crippled on FF with no video sharing & filters last I checked... Teams app is also crippled on linux - so the webapp is preferable. Outlook's been broken the last week - just doesn't load and the service worker seems to get stuck in a loop.
Have you tried clearing cookies & session store ?