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Re: Switch from Chrome to Firefox

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How much of Firefox success depends on donations?

I have seen successful crowd-funding projects where the budget is always transparent and communicated to the public. I am certain this motivates the masses to donate.

Wouldn't it be better for Mozilla to make their funding fully transparent, to attract the masses?

Re: Switch from Chrome to Firefox

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post #277

I switched a couple of months ago because Chrome is just a bloated piece of garbage. One of my favorite features in Firefox is containers, which I used to have different users for in Chrome. Maybe Chrome has something similar now but it's one of the things I liked when I switched over. Haven't had any issues so far, glad I did

Does anyone know an extension or option in containers to preserve your browsing trajectory between containers? I had a google container for a while, but opening links opens a new tab and closes the google container, so therefore you cant it back or forward without reopening that container tab. Same thing if I click a container link or something and it pushes it into a new tab, I loose that ability to go backward. It'…

History of opened URLs of the tab is accessible to sites via DOM, what you propose would be a leak.

Re: Switch from Chrome to Firefox

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post #562

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This is already happening. Web version of Skype refuses to work in Firefox, but if you change user-agent to Edge, it works.

This is risky behaviour though when dealing with other megacorps. Legal ramifications and antitrust suits come out of actions like that.

Every large player has been wilfully degrading user experience in any browser they don't approve of for a few years now. This is a ship that has sailed - from the lack of antitrust suits we can deduce that there are in fact very few legal ramifications, if any.

Re: Switch from Chrome to Firefox

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post #908

In case Firefox developers read this, Can you please make the popped up bookmark dialog box much much bigger? Please! When clicking the star icon at the end of the address bar, the bookmark dialog box pops up. But it is too small! It only shows very few folders and choices. In order to locate a desired bookmark folder, people have to click and scroll many times. The whole dialog box is $^%&*& too small! Please make i…

Did you try with userChrome.css? It won't help with the last used ookmark folder, but I think it will help with the bookmark popup.

thanks for the tip.

Re: Switch from Chrome to Firefox

#915

How much of Firefox success depends on donations? I have seen successful crowd-funding projects where the budget is always transparent and communicated to the public. I am certain this motivates the masses to donate. Wouldn't it be better for Mozilla to make their funding fully transparent, to attract the masses?

From what I've seen of their recent revenue the overwhelming majority (95%) comes from royalties received from search engine companies (Google, etc), while only a fraction (~1%) comes from donations.

Re: Switch from Chrome to Firefox

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post #667

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I would switch today if Mozilla added tab completed search in the address bar that Chrome pioneered. It's very intuitive and difficult to give up.

I hope I don't sound crass, but how much is this feature going to matter to you once Google locks up the web?

Hysteria of HN is hilarious.

Re: Switch from Chrome to Firefox

#917

Google will keep locking down Chrome and using corporate talk to hand wave it away, only recourse is to leave. First it’s “sign in” with obtuse ways to turn it off. Then block Adblocking, once again with obtuse ways to disable... the end goal is pretty obvious, get the majority of Chrome users to turn on ads and tie their real names to their Chrome browser. Of course let “power users” (who’ll turn that crap off anywa…

So you came up with 2 things, first one is actually a good feature and second one is meh and world is going down? HN is utter ridiculous nowadays.

Re: Switch from Chrome to Firefox

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post #161

I don't understand why Mac users use Chrome. Safari seems to be out of fashion: people just assume that it should not be used for some reason, even though it is actually a great browser. I use Safari for both my own browsing and for development (a fairly large ClojureScript application), and it is by far the best browser on the platform by all measures (speed first and foremost). The only place where Safari falls sho…

Safari UX sucks -as someone who used windows all their life and recently transitioned to mac. i do not understand the choices and can't integrate them into my workflow

Re: Switch from Chrome to Firefox

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post #307

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I'd use Safari over Chrome, but Safari has a couple of show-stopping bugs: 1. Swiping back on the trackpad to navigate backwards freezes the page for a couple of seconds. It then redraws the page with any updated elements (perhaps a refresh?). 2. The element CSS attributes in the dev tools often fail to update the DOM, duplicate with every keystroke, or revert what you have typed.

1) is a known bug. The fix is to switch to 3 finger back swipe in trackpad settings. Back becomes instant.

good of apple to not fix the bug and instead rely on the internet to fix the issue, very safari

Re: Switch from Chrome to Firefox

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post #646

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It's like Google found developer goodwill burdensome, and decided to pack it all up into container trucks and ship it all to Microsoft.

I agree. It is truly unbelievable. Same with user goodwill. Microsoft is vaccuuming it all up. Meanwhile Microsoft is making tons of great moves to get devs and users back on their side.

And what do you think will happen when all devs and users join Microsoft? The same cycle will repeat.
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