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Another reason to be glad that Firefox is still standing.
I really just don't understand the obsession with Chrome, especially in hacker communities. Sorry Google, I feel "icky & gross" when I use you.
Check their dev blog, they add cool features every couple of weeks:
Was no one but me outraged about them turning the 'stop autoplay' of video feature off within Chrome on desktop? This happened in the last year or two - I don't remember since I switched to Firefox.
Chrome I only use for business / G-Suite purposes and for dumbo sites that only work in Chrome. Admittedly I'll use IE before I use Chrome.
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Don't threaten, don't wait, do it now.
Nope, not as long as Firefox randomly paints text boxes black (a bug report that is now old enough to vote) and hard refresh doesn't work. I expect to be able to do work on my browser, and Firefox just gets in the way.
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I really like the point the uBlock maintainer's make: "Extensions act on behalf of users, they add capabilities to a user agent , and deprecating the blocking ability of the webRequest API will essentially decrease the level of user agency in Chromium, to the benefit of web sites which obviously would be happy to have the last word in what resources their pages can fetch/execute/render."
I'm just waiting for the time until websites won't load at all unless you have hardware DRM turned on that will take all of your control away. > Extensions act on behalf of users, they add capabilities to a user agent, and deprecating the blocking ability of the webRequest API will essentially decrease the level of user agency in Chromium This is off-topic, but I felt the same way about most data privacy problems. It…
My money is on news sites and other paywall sites doing that first. How long before they stop letting us "open in new private window"? Washington Post doesn't even allow that anymore -- a shame too, since I haven't read a single one of their articles since then.
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I used to be a fanatic about tree style tabs, but due to the new api, it's unusable with containers. I recently switched over to vertical tabs for that reason. I miss the tree layout, but at least now my tabs maintain their ordering.
What are you talking about? I've been using TreeStyleTabs with containers for a good year or so.
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I used to be a fanatic about tree style tabs, but due to the new api, it's unusable with containers. I recently switched over to vertical tabs for that reason. I miss the tree layout, but at least now my tabs maintain their ordering.
All of my TST issues have been related to the layout cache. You can disable it if you right-click the toolbar icon.
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I really like the point the uBlock maintainer's make: "Extensions act on behalf of users, they add capabilities to a user agent , and deprecating the blocking ability of the webRequest API will essentially decrease the level of user agency in Chromium, to the benefit of web sites which obviously would be happy to have the last word in what resources their pages can fetch/execute/render."
Is it perhaps time to return to using external tools such as Privoxy, Pi-Hole and the like? Privoxy appears to still be around, and (I think) was originally at the forefront of user-managed web controls. Once the browser reaches its natural Borg-self, transparent user-level tools will be all that provide a semblance of control. Well that, and Firefox.
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Nope, not as long as Firefox randomly paints text boxes black (a bug report that is now old enough to vote) and hard refresh doesn't work. I expect to be able to do work on my browser, and Firefox just gets in the way.
On what platform? I use FF on Android, OS X, macOS, Windows, and Linux and can't remember having seen that bug.
It's infuriating, and the devs say they wont fix it because they expect websites to stop using custom color schemes and respect user desktop themes instead.
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> And of course there is no regulatory body that is able or willing to step in. On basis of what exactly? What is google doing wrong? I am curious to hear. Don't downvote me.
I suspect a reply to your comment isn't going to change your stance on whether Google is dancing around in the anti-trust/monopoly area. Maybe you would concede that some reasonable people think they have in the past? Like FTC investigators (albeit overruled by their bosses): http://graphics.wsj.com/google-ftc-report/ Or Eric Schmidt: https://www.businessinsider.com/is-google-a-monopoly-were-in...
Winning argument was
> It takes me all of 10 seconds to type duckduckgo.com, and maybe 30 to switch default search engines for the browser. [1][2]
But an equivalent, i can just download FF in 10 seconds is not acceptable in this context. why? Infact, Google browser is way less dominant that the search engine.
> I suspect a reply to your comment isn't going to change your stance on whether Google is dancing around in the anti-trust/monopoly area.
Why is that? Sounds a bit patronising.
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Sadly people who dont care about their privacy will keep on using Chrome. Same with folks who are not so "advanced" as we call it.
Don't forget the people who had it installed because it was bundled with some other software during installation...