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Re: Switching from Chrome to Firefox

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Post by sm4rk0 »

rahuldottech wrote: post #2

Firefox is great, and I've had an amazing experience on both mobile and desktop ever since I switched almost a year ago. I only wish that their password manager allowed you to import passwords in standard formats from other password managers.

You can try this 3rd party tool if your password manager supports exporting to CSV (or if you can convert the exported passwords to CSV):

https://github.com/louisabraham/ffpass

And here are some hints about the CSV structure:

https://github.com/louisabraham/ffpass/pull/46/files

Re: Switching from Chrome to Firefox

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Post by _tkzm »

the custom search engines and the banning of dissenter extension is why i am still on chrome. ff failed me on technical and personal level with these. at least with chrome/google ... the devil you know.

Re: Switching from Chrome to Firefox

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Post by dzink »

I have been using Firefox for a few months and I’ve noticed browsers on Windows are far slower than on Mac (despite much faster hardware). Is that normal / happening to you as well? Firefox on Windows seems noticeably slower than Chrome. (Any page from entering address to seeing content feels ridiculously slow) I still use it for privacy, but I wonder if there is something I could do to speed it up.

Re: Switching from Chrome to Firefox

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Post by clement_b »

I did that about a month ago, after more than 10 years with Chrome only.

So far so good, apart from battery usage on Android. I sometimes feel it spirals when too many tabs are left open. Desktop, no problem.

I have kept Chrome for my work stuff, because I want 100% efficiency / no delay due to my tech choices and I work on a SaaS tool primarily targeting Chrome. I still think Chrome is better when it comes to powering web apps, ahem, made by Google in particular.

The real question for me is, besides privacy, what is the killer feature that will / does make it obvious to switch to Firefox?

It seems that other browsers like Brave are also quite good at dealing with privacy, so why Firefox and not Brave?

Re: Switching from Chrome to Firefox

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Post by anfilt »

bennyz wrote: post #3

I am still missing chrome-like profiles

Firefox does have support for multiple profiles. You just to need to set it up.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profile-manager-create-...

Also if you want to prompt what profile to use every time you use firefox just add -P like this "firefox.exe -P" in your shortcut/softlink or script that starts firefox.

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