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Re: Switch from Chrome to Firefox

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Post by keypusher » Sat, Jun 01, 2019, 12:27 AM UTC

jiveturkey wrote: post #628

marricks wrote: post #15

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…

First, you are being overly critical. Automatic (forced) sign-in is actually useful. Second, why do you call leaving the "only" recourse? As if it's something completely horrid that you would never ever do freely. Leaving is a completely fine path to take. With webRequest, Google is "just" testing the waters. Just like with the forced sign-in, they will back down when they see the backlash. Based only on Google's des…

If you are ever in the market for a bridge, let me know.

Re: Switch from Chrome to Firefox

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Post by keypusher » Sat, Jun 01, 2019, 12:33 AM UTC

chx wrote: post #983

mappu wrote: post #898

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> I can't even switch Wait, you haven't had a security update for your browser since 2017?

No, I am running Chrome for a long time now. I use an extension there which doesn't exist for Firefox. An equivalent existed in the old Firefox. I made an attempt at porting it but my JS skills are super meagre.

What is the extension? I could take a stab if it isn’t too complicated, and if not perhaps someone else will be interested.

Re: Switch from Chrome to Firefox

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Post by unnouinceput » Sat, Jun 01, 2019, 3:05 AM UTC

I did it. I switched from Chrome to Firefox this week. Problem was that I broke my advice I give to all my friends/customers : "reinstall Windows at least every 6 months". And I had Windows for the past 2 years watching it becoming more and more bloated, with more and more quirks. At the same time I had Chrome. Sure, I had Firefox in the past too, but was slower then Chrome. For reasons unknown to me it seemed Firefox loved flash, and I was watching in Task Manager how Flash component of Firefox was growing more and more in memory until it ate all of it and required me to restart Firefox entirely. Which I hate it to do that. Hence why I used Chrome instead. With ad blockers and DuckDuckGo as default engine. But once I've reinstalled Windows I was like "OK, time to see Firefox again".

Let me tell you brothers and sisters, it was a blessing to see Firefox having the same speed as Chrome, and no bloating. Sure, for each tab opened it alos creates a firefox.exe in task manager, but so does Chrome. I can live with that. Now all I need is to move my entire productions from Windows to Linux and I'll be really free. But that's gonna be at least an order of magnitude harder then switching from one browser to another.

Re: Switch from Chrome to Firefox

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Post by anticensor » Sat, Jun 01, 2019, 7:40 AM UTC

lol768 wrote: post #956

CalChris wrote: post #854

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I think you meant iOS WebKit for rendering rather than Safari. Firefox iOS uses WebKit while it used to use Gecko. I seem to remember speed being a difference. It’s been awhile. I also switched from gmail to outlook because gmail was using headers and footers for ads which was annoying on a 4” SE.

>while it used to use Gecko How was it ever permitted to use Gecko underneath? Have the iOS app rules changed in recent years? Did they used to be more permissive?

Firefox-on-Store uses Webkit but there is an experimental fork using Gecko/Servo in case Apple allows in the future. You can build and developer-sign that fork for your own.

Re: Switch from Chrome to Firefox

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Post by feanaro » Sat, Jun 01, 2019, 10:12 AM UTC

mda wrote: post #916

feanaro wrote: post #669

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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.

What is your argument? It is clearly happening and it is not surprising given Google's business incentives. It's slow enough that there is a large chance of many falling for it, which is what makes it so dangerous.

Re: Switch from Chrome to Firefox

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Post by oAlbe » Sat, Jun 01, 2019, 4:49 PM UTC

jzl wrote: post #932

kaffee wrote: post #803

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I really enjoy the Containers. The only problem is that you can only have a single container tied to an individual site. I'd rather like it to be tied to a subpath or url "root" so I could use it with GitHub.

Only for the automatic association you mean? You can manually open a tab into any container.

I recommend the Search and Switch container[1] extension for that. You open a new tab, type 'co Plus, you can also move existing tabs into a given container the same way, not just new tabs, all at the cost of a single tab refresh.

[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/search-and-sw...

Re: Switch from Chrome to Firefox

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Post by chx » Sat, Jun 01, 2019, 7:54 PM UTC

keypusher wrote: post #992

chx wrote: post #983

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No, I am running Chrome for a long time now. I use an extension there which doesn't exist for Firefox. An equivalent existed in the old Firefox. I made an attempt at porting it but my JS skills are super meagre.

What is the extension? I could take a stab if it isn’t too complicated, and if not perhaps someone else will be interested.

https://github.com/denis-sokolov/chrome-supergenpass Thanks a lot!

Re: Switch from Chrome to Firefox

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Post by chucksmash » Sat, Jun 01, 2019, 7:58 PM UTC

Just throwing it out there, this post is currently at 3239 and needs 151 votes to move to the seventh highest rank in HN history and 154 votes to move to the sixth highest rank.

As long as we're saying how we really feel, we should +1 to move it up the ladder.

Re: Switch from Chrome to Firefox

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Post by [deleted] » Sun, Jun 02, 2019, 10:29 PM UTC

kaffee wrote: post #803

bastih wrote: post #525

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Container tabs have made my life much easier, as I'm managing a number of Amazon accounts, and being able to do that side-by-side is a life-saver.

I really enjoy the Containers. The only problem is that you can only have a single container tied to an individual site. I'd rather like it to be tied to a subpath or url "root" so I could use it with GitHub.

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Re: Switch from Chrome to Firefox

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Post by nyjah » Mon, Jun 03, 2019, 1:59 PM UTC

Evidlo wrote: post #895

jolmg wrote: post #723

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dccoolgai was probably refering to this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19363838

I think he's referring to EME (encrypted media extensions - W3C's standardized DRM for the web).

I can't tell if there is humor tied to this response, but either way it's a brilliantly written reply to my comment. Gave me a chuckle, and got my upvote.