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Re: Switching from Chrome to Firefox

#61

Post by unethical_ban »

matsemann wrote: post #4

I feel this article almost do more harm than good. It paints a picture that you need to "sacrifice" something to use Fx and lists various "problems". For instance it mentions how troublesome it is to use profiles as a "problem". Don't. Use containers. Hundred times more smooth than profiles. Hence why no one cares about making profiles in Fx better, there is already a better solution to the problem profiles solve. Ne…

I will say the process for creating a new container per website is bad.

* Create new container "target"

* Open new Target container

* Go to target.com

* Click the container menu and choose "Always open in..." and if you have a lot of containers, scroll down to "Target"

And then, you still get asked "Hey, you told us to open this in the target container, is that correct?" even though I have *explicitly* said that's exactly what I want.

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I would like a shortcut button for any site that isn't assigned to a container, where I could click the container menu and say "Create new container and assign this site to it" where it all happens at once. Boom, site isolated.

Re: Switching from Chrome to Firefox

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Post by finnjohnsen2 »

moribvndvs wrote: post #35
bryanlarsen wrote: post #2

Firefox users don't use profiles, we use something much superior: multi-account containers.

Been using Firefox for a long time, absolutely did not know this was a thing :/

Good for you for discovering it then. Never again a big tech cookie alive in your general browsing. Welcome to the flip side

Re: Switching from Chrome to Firefox

#63

Post by gnicholas »

lolinder wrote: post #19
gnicholas wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yep, there should be a mention of how TST is better on FF than on any other browser (especially Chrome).

I agree with OP that the tone is needlessly negative, but while some people are super into TST, most of us don't care about it at all. I wouldn't say that any given article on Firefox "should" mention TST, because odds are the author won't be in the group that cares.

In an article talking about the pros and cons of Chrome and FF, it would make sense to mention cult favorites like TST. I'm not sure where you get the notion that "most of us don't care about it at all" — perhaps you have more inside info than the rest of us?

Regardless, I don't care about profiles or any of this other stuff, but I don't begrudge the author for mentioning things that aren't up my alley. In my mind, when I read a list-based article, I don't expect everything to be relevant to me.

Re: Switching from Chrome to Firefox

#64

Post by rho4 »

I still find it very confusing that the active tab does not 'extend' to the content, but is separated by a shadow. I often mistake the inactive tab for the active one, because it's background is almost closer to the content.

Re: Switching from Chrome to Firefox

#65

Post by davidhaymond »

neals wrote: post #43
noman-land wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I always hear people say this, but they never give examples.

Fair enough. I just started the latest version and must say, it has really improved. Quality of life probably means I have to look a bit more for where stuff is. And hey, they might have some stuff that Chrome doesn't have, right? So my first one is 'Chrome devtools has a little button to instantly switch to mobile view, where you simulate (more or less) the viewport of various mobile devices'. I don't see this in Fi…

It's called Responsive Design Mode, and it's the third button from the the right on the top bar. Even better, use the shortcut Ctrl-Shift-M, which works even when devtools is closed.

Re: Switching from Chrome to Firefox

#66

Post by rakoo »

unethical_ban wrote: post #61
matsemann wrote: post #4

I feel this article almost do more harm than good. It paints a picture that you need to "sacrifice" something to use Fx and lists various "problems". For instance it mentions how troublesome it is to use profiles as a "problem". Don't. Use containers. Hundred times more smooth than profiles. Hence why no one cares about making profiles in Fx better, there is already a better solution to the problem profiles solve. Ne…

I will say the process for creating a new container per website is bad. * Create new container "target" * Open new Target container * Go to target.com * Click the container menu and choose "Always open in..." and if you have a lot of containers, scroll down to "Target" And then, you still get asked "Hey, you told us to open this in the target container, is that correct?" even though I have *explicitly* said that's ex…

Use Multi-Account Containers (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multi-account...), it does exactly what you want.

Re: Switching from Chrome to Firefox

#67

Post by moffkalast »

Dwedit wrote: post #3

Warning for people who use or install Firefox UI Fix on other people's computers: Mozilla occasionally breaks everything with new Firefox releases, and you can end up with a non-functional tabs bar until you reinstall the newest version of Firefox UI Fix. Not so much a problem if you're a techie, but a big problem for the non-techies you install it for.

I wish I heard this warning a while back.

Firefox used to have a pretty Chrome-like tabs bar with curved trapezoid corners and a lighter highlight for the selected tab.Then one day they decided that's bad, made it all flat rectangles and inverted the color scheme. Someone on the UX team had to justify their existence I guess. So my muscle memory was telling me that the tab that is selected is not selected and I couldn't get anything done.

Okay not a problem, set up some flags that revert the old scheme, done. A few months later, Mozilla breaks that functionality because fuck you. Okay still not a problem, find and install a custom theme that makes the task bar look normal again.

Half a year later they release a new patch that breaks the custom theme by sliding the tabs bar roughly 50% up so it's being clipped by the fucking window. I no longer have any clue what file changes I made to mod in that custom theme so I'm stuck with a broken install of Firefox unless I nuke my profiles. Yaaaay.

sigh

In my probably decade+ of using it, Chrome has never been this annoying.

Re: Switching from Chrome to Firefox

#68

Post by jackbrookes »

rho4 wrote: post #64

I still find it very confusing that the active tab does not 'extend' to the content, but is separated by a shadow. I often mistake the inactive tab for the active one, because it's background is almost closer to the content.

Agree, if anyone knows themes that make this better I'd love to know

Re: Switching from Chrome to Firefox

#69

Post by reaperducer »

matsemann wrote: post #4

I feel this article almost do more harm than good. It paints a picture that you need to "sacrifice" something to use Fx and lists various "problems". For instance it mentions how troublesome it is to use profiles as a "problem". Don't. Use containers. Hundred times more smooth than profiles. Hence why no one cares about making profiles in Fx better, there is already a better solution to the problem profiles solve. Ne…

The thing that keeps me from using Firefox is that it doesn't use certain standard macOS interface methods.

That keeps me from using macOS's built-in keybinding system to change tabs with the touch of a function key.

Every other program I use from Finder to my database manager allows me to switch tabs with one button. Firefox has no way to accomplish this, which would make it an interruption to my muscle memory and therefore my productivity.

Duck allows it, so that's what I use instead of Chrome.

Re: Switching from Chrome to Firefox

#70

Post by Garrrrrr »

neals wrote: post #43
noman-land wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I always hear people say this, but they never give examples.

Fair enough. I just started the latest version and must say, it has really improved. Quality of life probably means I have to look a bit more for where stuff is. And hey, they might have some stuff that Chrome doesn't have, right? So my first one is 'Chrome devtools has a little button to instantly switch to mobile view, where you simulate (more or less) the viewport of various mobile devices'. I don't see this in Fi…

...Really? It's the icon on the top-right of the Fx dev tools menu that looks like a mobile device. Also, both Chrome and Fx use the same keyboard shortcut to activate mobile view (Ctrl + Shift + M)
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