Firefox is back. It's time to give it a try

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Post by MilnerRoute » Thu, Jun 21, 2018, 12:45 AM UTC

Firefox is back. It's time to give it a try
mobile.nytimes.com

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Post by pmoriarty » Thu, Jun 21, 2018, 1:37 AM UTC

Firefox permanently broke Pentadactyl. I'm really not going to be excited about Firefox until it has something of that caliber again.

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Post by didgeoridoo » Thu, Jun 21, 2018, 1:38 AM UTC

Ironically, the thing that drove me to Firefox was the excellent Account Containers system that I found necessary to manage being logged into multiple Google Apps accounts simultaneously (I have five). Each tab owns one account — that way, Google Drive files from my work don't randomly refuse to open because I'm also logged into my personal account.

(Chrome has no solution for containing accounts across tabs, last I checked. You have to spawn entire new Chrome instances.)

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Post by whalesalad » Thu, Jun 21, 2018, 1:38 AM UTC

I switched cold turkey to Firefox a few months ago. It was fine for a bit but eventually became unbearably slow. I made the switch on both my work MacBook Pro (retina) and my personal MacBook Air. Both had similar issues. That and the fact that it ships with things like Pocket made me jump back to Chrome.

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Post by ductr » Thu, Jun 21, 2018, 1:38 AM UTC

If Firefox wants to be taken seriously they have to stop showing ads in the home page. Period. It looks way too unprofessional. Like some adware browser you’d have to uninstall from your grandmas Windows XP computer.

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Post by f311a » Thu, Jun 21, 2018, 1:40 AM UTC

I've switched to Firefox on most of my devices.

And there is only one thing which I don't like — high CPU usage compared to chrome. It makes my old MacBook air very noisy because of the fan spinning. When I use chrome it's completely silent.

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Post by branchless » Thu, Jun 21, 2018, 1:40 AM UTC

pmoriarty wrote: post #2

Firefox permanently broke Pentadactyl. I'm really not going to be excited about Firefox until it has something of that caliber again.

vimvixen

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Post by regecks » Thu, Jun 21, 2018, 1:41 AM UTC

pmoriarty wrote: post #2

Firefox permanently broke Pentadactyl. I'm really not going to be excited about Firefox until it has something of that caliber again.

Vimium has been working great for me, even since they broke Vimperator.

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Post by michaelmrose » Thu, Jun 21, 2018, 1:42 AM UTC

pmoriarty wrote: post #2

Firefox permanently broke Pentadactyl. I'm really not going to be excited about Firefox until it has something of that caliber again.

Tridactyl is quickly approaching parity with pentadactyl

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Post by jszymborski » Thu, Jun 21, 2018, 1:42 AM UTC

pmoriarty wrote: post #2

Firefox permanently broke Pentadactyl. I'm really not going to be excited about Firefox until it has something of that caliber again.

With all due respect, less than 0.1% of browser users likely feel that way.

Don't mean to discredit or invalidate your feelings, I just feel the need to disclaim that it's impossible to meet people's need with that granularity.

The alternative is that they keep XUL, make 0.1% of the install base happy, and ditch the performance increases that Quantum/WebExtension have given us... at which point there wouldn't be a NYT article and we'd all just be stuck in a browser monoculture.