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> Yep, I'm about to ditch Chrome altogether now. I keep seeing people write stuff like this, and I just don’t get it. What’s keeping you? Why haven’t you switched already? I mean... it takes minutes at most.
from personal experience, it's the performance and bugs of firefox that keeps me away. for this reason i will not switch.
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What you, as Web developers, can do, is use Firefox while developing your site to ensure it really works well on non-Chromium browsers. And do your level best to encourage your developer friends to do the same. If they're on Mac and would rather use Safari, that'll do too. Then, every time you see any site or any Web developer satisfied with "works in Chrome", do what you can to let them know that's not acceptable. I…
A decent idea of course, but you are going to run in to the same issue as everybody else who tries that: unless Firefox has a significant market share, it is just not worth throwing resources after it. What you can do is develop automatic filters to make chrome specific CSS prefixes general, etc. Those are probably worth using since a few hours/days of engineering time easily is worth the larger market share.
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Firefox has several experience-breaking bugs for me. One where on websites that don't explicitly set their form background to white, which is the default on most browsers, Firefox paints them the color of the user's desktop theme, even when the theme is dark. Black text on black background. This bug had been known about for almost 20 years and is marked "won't fix" because the devs still assert that universal user th…
The first one is easy, see the second answer in this thread https://askubuntu.com/questions/8336/how-can-one-make-firefo...
Also pretty obscure. That really shouldn't be necessary.
From the author of uBlock on this: What we see are the public statements, for public consumption, they are designed to "sell" the changes to the wider public. What we do not see is what is being said in private meetings by officers who get to decide how to optimize the business. So we have to judge not by what is said for public consumption purpose, but by what in effect is being done, or what they plan to do. This i…
Switch to Firefox people, it's not perfect but at least it's not Chrome.
Google is essentially saying that Chrome will still have the capability to block unwanted content, but this will be restricted to only paid, enterprise users of Chrome. Never heard of a paid version of Chrome before! Can anyone elaborate on this? I gotta say I'm kind of glad Google is doing this. It will force me to finally abandon Chrome, something I should have done awhile ago.
Googler here, but I do not work on Chrome and I’m speaking on a personal capacity. I believe this is a misnomer. The enterprise deployment stuff I’m aware of in Chrome/Chromium is accessible by any user, as far as I know, and in the past I’ve used it to force private browsing on always for my own personal usage. That said, I switched to Firefox when Quantum came out and haven’t looked back. Mozilla has done some anno…
Slightly off topic, I'm finding it very disingenuous that people in this thread(and any other threads that come up about Firefox) have actually had significant performance issues with Firefox. No bugs that are noteworthy, sans that fiasco with the expired certificate that disabled addons briefly. I've been using Firefox since "quantum" on both my MacBooks(one of which is old AF) and on Linux. I've yet to have problem…
Edit: I have uBO installed on both.
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That's a pretty good amount to be making. Should easily pay for the time spent maintaining the project.
I’m not sure if this is sarcasm? No, $24k gross per year does not even begin to cover the amount of work put in to create and maintain software at the level of Pi-Hole. Not even remotely close. Not even 1/10th. Pi-Hole should be making $1m ARR at least. 53 releases (going back to 2015), 2,765 issues on Github, multiple devs, supporting multiple platforms, extensive documentation, and on and on. $24k/yr, come on...
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I recently found the scalars internal values, and discovered how many tabs I have open: 1,355. https://joindiaspora.com/posts/14824223 (Yes, I'm an infovore.) And performance (iMavc v.17 Retina) is usually accetable , at least initially. Somewhere between a few hours to days in, ahard kill becomes necessary. But; On Android or Linux, both older machines, even with just a tab or two open, within recent weeks, performa…
It is absurd to suggest that anyone needs more than a few dozen tabs. Once you get to the point where you're leaving tabs open for more than a couple of days, you should recognise that you're misusing tabs as a brittle form of bookmarking. (In my opinion, Firefox and others could solve this by blurring the lines between bookmarks and tabs with some clever UI.)
I really do use numerous tabs productively, though with better management tools that would likely be more lke a hundred or so tops, not 1300.
The count surprised me, thogh not excessively.
It's presumptive to tell anyone "you're holding it wrong".
The userbase, is not the same thing as the handful of technical individuals, such as ones found here.
The bread and butter of the userbase cares only about the optics. So long as the stupid banners are taken out of their sight, hardly anybody would care of more.
If they did, Snowden news breaking would have bankrupted every company named participating in the Orwellian schemes.
Privacy is an elusive abstract, not really understood or appreciated by the public. Partly because we never had it - and have always been accustomed to various levels of intrusions.
Even the EFF doesn't understand the abstract well enough to market it properly, even though their main operations are dedicated to it.
Like it or not, those of us who care about privacy are in the position of that kid browsing the internet and demanding someone makes a browser plugin for some obscure bullshit that only came up in some fossil of a 500 users niche forum.
Take a moment and be appreciative you even have "pi-hole, third-party cookie blocking and uBO," to fall back on.
Its not google's fault that firefox decided to shoot itself in the head, with a 2 week update cycle that outdated everybody's plugins constantly. Or that their performance shit the bed.
The way I transitioned to Chrome was when the 14 plugins I used for work - were driven off development because people couldn't keep up with firefoxes bullshit. At that point you might as well use the faster browser thats not memory leaking like crazy, if plugins are off the table anyway.
Theoretically, you can make a company that offers a premium browser but who the fuck is going to pay for that? It's possible to market it to enterprise and say that buying this will prevent people from collecting data on their employee internet activities. But then you'd need a whole lot of business mojo to not only fund that, but then staff it with top talent. Because as garbage as google may be, selling out to help China censor itself. They still have top level enginers you have to compete with. Some sacrifice in performance may be an acceptable tradeoff in favor of privacy, but it can't be too big.
And its not just a browser that you have to repalce, email is mandatory, then you are still left facing the temptation of google docs. What is google docs to the small business? A one stop save for infinite amounts of money on bullshit micorsoft licenses, windows is enough of a drain to start with.
Be glad that google is not offering an OS on PC. We'd be lamenting the days MS was ripping us off.
At the moment you have awesome projects like Project Zero [2], but how long till they start strategically handling exploits for monetary gain? Contrast Project Zero to Project Dragonfly [3]. Nobody should be relying on them being good actors.
[1] https://www.zdnet.com/article/google-launches-portals-a-new-...
[2] https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/
[3] https://money.cnn.com/2018/09/26/technology/google-dragonfly...