Switching to DuckDuckGo and Firefox

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Post by abentspoon » Fri, Jul 12, 2013, 5:31 PM UTC

Switching to DuckDuckGo and Firefox
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Re: Switching to DuckDuckGo and Firefox

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Post by hillbillyjack » Fri, Jul 12, 2013, 5:57 PM UTC

One really nice thing about firefox is no more He's Dead Jim pages.

Chrome (even stable) seems to crash tabs all the time, while in the past 6 months firefox nightly hasn't crashed more than a once or twice. Another annoying thing about chrome is I never got a reason for a crash it just was a crash page and if I tried to reload that page it was very likely to crash silently again, with chrome at least I get the stop script dialog once in a while.

Chrome still starts faster (more noticable on windows than linux). There are also a plethora of webkit optimized experiments that don't work for shit on firefox.

Re: Switching to DuckDuckGo and Firefox

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Post by [deleted] » Fri, Jul 12, 2013, 5:58 PM UTC

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Re: Switching to DuckDuckGo and Firefox

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Post by barista » Fri, Jul 12, 2013, 5:59 PM UTC

One question, Why?

Re: Switching to DuckDuckGo and Firefox

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Post by barista » Fri, Jul 12, 2013, 6:00 PM UTC

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Windows 8 does this across machines

Re: Switching to DuckDuckGo and Firefox

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Post by Kelet » Fri, Jul 12, 2013, 6:01 PM UTC

barista wrote: post #5

[deleted] wrote: post #3

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Windows 8 does this across machines

Argh, you replied just when I had deleted. Sorry. To anyone wondering my comment was saying that I couldn't find any service comparable to Google's sync last time I tried Firefox. Google's sync effortlessly syncs all machines tied to an account including bookmarks, extensions, and themes.

I figured I'd try out the latest Firefox and see if I can get it working before I definitively make the comment.

Thanks for the tip though. The machines I want to sync between are Windows 7 and Linux though, so no can do.

Re: Switching to DuckDuckGo and Firefox

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Post by Hilyin » Fri, Jul 12, 2013, 6:03 PM UTC

My biggest problems with Firefox after using Chrome for so long is stability. I find that web pages can lock up the entire browser rather than just a tab, and this isn't just a rare occurrence, when I tried to give it a chance a week ago, it happened several times. I am amazed they still haven't picked up the separate process per tab feature yet.

Re: Switching to DuckDuckGo and Firefox

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Post by binarymax » Fri, Jul 12, 2013, 6:03 PM UTC

I made the switch to DDG about 2 years ago and am pretty happy, though I do occasionally use the !g.

Switched back to FF on my desktop a couple months ago when I got my keon and I love it. The only thing that's hard to get used to again is a search bar separate from an address bar. Chrome really had that figured out. A unified bar in FF would make it the perfect browser.

Re: Switching to DuckDuckGo and Firefox

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Post by daturkel » Fri, Jul 12, 2013, 6:04 PM UTC

Is there any substitute in firefox for Chrome's keyword searching? That's the only chrome feature I really care about.

Re: Switching to DuckDuckGo and Firefox

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Post by epmatsw » Fri, Jul 12, 2013, 6:05 PM UTC

barista wrote: post #4

One question, Why?

Firefox is comparable to Chrome in terms speed and features. However, Mozilla doesn't have the same incentive to collect and use data on their customers that is inherent to Google, an advertising company. In addition to that, Firefox is fully open source, unlike Chrome which contains closed source components from Google.