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Google to restrict modern ad blocking Chrome extensions to enterprise users

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Post by amaccuish »

ptmcc wrote: post #493
nanny wrote: post #342

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Switch your DNS servers (I suggest 1.1.1.1). Chrome uses Google's DNS servers by default, they're probably just faster than whatever you're using.

That isn't an effective solution on a corporate network that depends on internal name resolution. And FWIW I run into the same DNS-like issues with Firefox on my home network, which uses Cloudflare's 1.1.1.1 DNS. Perhaps it is something to do with the way my company provisions my machine, I don't know. All I know is that Chrome has no issues. I've made efforts to track down the issue but it's ultimately not worth my…

Double check it's not using or trying to autodetect a proxy?

Re: Google to restrict modern ad blocking Chrome extensions to enterprise users

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Post by microcolonel »

hawski wrote: post #685
microcolonel wrote: post #140

I guess my Chromebook will not be running Chrome.

Yeah, it's time to unscrew the write protect screw. I'm wondering how Firefox for Android manages on ChromeOS. For now it's too slow on Crostini. But my cheap Chromebook is not performing well with both Crostini and Android containers. So straight up Linux should be hopefully better. It's certainly harder for my old Tegra K1 Chromebook.

> I'm wondering how Firefox for Android manages on ChromeOS

I've done this before, it works pretty well, but Firefox for Android doesn't have a great extension experience as far as I've seen, though it could have improved since last I tried.

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Post by pabs3 »

kibwen wrote: post #353
m-p-3 wrote: post #150

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I ditched Chrome and came back to Firefox, next step is to donate to Mozilla.

Note that charitable donations (of the 501(c)(3) variety) in the U.S. can only be employed for a very specific whitelist of purposes, and software development and marketing are not among those (the Mozilla Foundation uses donations to fund things like education programs instead). If you're a software developer who's interested in the health of Firefox specifically, consider instead donating your time by volunteering…

I'm told that this is incorrect and that the FSF has been doing it for 34 years, the EFF does it, the ACLU has done it and others have even paid for proprietary software development (their apps etc).

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Post by jaimex2 »

techntoke wrote: post #452
jaimex2 wrote: post #210

This is great news for Firefox.

Not if you want hardware acceleration support in Linux. Not that most Firefox users care about open source operating systems.

I thought it had hardware acceleration? Alas hidden away in advanced settings.

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Post by Aeolun »

riskable wrote: post #810
Aeolun wrote: post #222

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Unfortunately, my Firefox on Ubuntu just keeps claiming more and more memory until it runs out and freezes the system. I don’t want to use Chrome, but I still wouldn’t call that very great.

What extensions do you have loaded? Done anything else to customize it? I've been running Firefox for over a year now on my Kubuntu desktop and haven't had that issue. Not with pre-Quantum or post-Quantum Firefox. Also, some tabs will continually use more and more memory due to poorly-written JavaScript. That's not really Firefox's fault but Chrome seems to be much more aggressive in shutting those sorts of things do…

I have only Bitwarden and Rikaikun loaded.

My tabs might be using a lot of memory though (React + Redux gets reloaded an awful lot).

Regardless, I’d expect my browser to be smart enough to know that allocating even more memory when the system is out and it already uses 12GB is probably not desireable.

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Post by Aeolun »

FrozenVoid wrote: post #545
Aeolun wrote: post #222

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Unfortunately, my Firefox on Ubuntu just keeps claiming more and more memory until it runs out and freezes the system. I don’t want to use Chrome, but I still wouldn’t call that very great.

Try removing custom css from the firefox profile(userchrome.css/usercontent.css) and disabling themes.

Thanks, I’ll try. How would those things ever end up using gigabytes of RAM though?

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Post by dang »

latortuga wrote: post #376
sergiotapia wrote: post #328

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I did give Firefox a _serious_ exclusive try for the past two months. It's terrible for heavy websites. Clickup, PivotalTracker, JIRA, Zeplin - the browser just chokes on these sites and get janky. On Chrome they are butter smooth. I don't know what to do. I want to use anything other than Chrome, but I also want a sane workday and not have the browser jank my day up constantly. I would use Brave but they don't have…

This has got to be some bullshit shilling. I use all those sites all day every damn day with no problem in Firefox whatsoever.

This breaks the site guidelines. They require you not to call names and not to make insinuations about astroturfing when commenting here. Would you mind reviewing and following them?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Plenty of explanation of why we have that anti-insinuation rule is here for anyone who wants it: https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...

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Post by dang »

tamrix wrote: post #325
ravenstine wrote: post #269

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…

Do not discount the fact that Google will pay highly for PR on this platform.

The HN guidelines ask you not to post insinuations about astroturfing to this site. If you're genuinely concerned about abuse, please email hn@ycombinator.com so we can look into it (which we will). But it's not ok to shoot it as cheap ammunition into an argument—it poisons the well, and is a thousand times more likely to be an imaginary projection than anything else. I've written hundreds of comments about this over many years, so there's plenty of explanation for anyone who wants more: https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme....

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Post by dang »

ravenstine wrote: post #269

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…

"Disingenuous" has become a way of insinuating astroturfing, which the guidelines ask HN users to refrain from. Please don't do that here. If you have better information than other users, that's great, but please simply provide it, so we all can learn. Attacking the other users' integrity poisons the well, and is mostly a cheap side-effect of the irritation we all feel when encountering views we disagree with.

Real astroturfing exists, of course, but is far rarer than insinuation. If you or anyone are genuinely concerned you might be seeing it, email hn@ycombinator.com so we can look into it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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Post by mwill »

riskable wrote: post #798
mwill wrote: post #641

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I use firefox as my daily for a few years now, I switched for panorama view, and almost switched back to chrome when the extension was broken, but stuck it out until it was fixed. Quantum improved it, but I still have lots of issues with Firefox on Linux. To name a few: (For reference I'm running Firefox 67 on NixOS, xmonad, no DE, 7700K, 64GB RAM, RTX2070, only extensions I use are uBlock Origin, Panorama View, but…

> RTX2070 That's the cause of your visual glitches (and the occasional "window stops working"). Switch to Nvidia's 430 driver and that should improve things considerably. It did for me anyway. Never have these issues with Firefox on another PC I regularly use with an AMD GPU. Ditto for my Intel-only GPU laptop (though I don't use that much).

I've only switched to the 2070 in the last month, previously I was running a 1060 with all the same problems (The "window stops working" bug has haunted me on and off for a year or so, but you may be right that the tab bar glitches could have gotten worse since switching to the 2070)

I am on 418.56, I will look into upgrading. Really, I've been suspicious that Firefox might just not like running with no desktop environment, but I feel like it shouldn't make a difference, are you running a DE?

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