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I’ve been moving away from Google in the last year and moving to Firefox was one of my first moves. It’s honestly a downgrade in usability but I guess that applies to all alternative products.
I just wish I could sync my bookmarks between desktop and mobile. Seems like no one has this problem but firefox sync just does not work for me. It just says last update was never. Let me know if you know how to fix it.
Sync works great over here. It even syncs history which is great because I use an extension on the laptop to limit history to 28 days and that becomes synced with Android without an additional extension.
What was the downgrade in usability you saw? I used to be an avid chrome user turned Firefox, but I would say the opposite.
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Tab Grouping would be my first pick.
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When I first started using Firefox on Linux, dragging tabs was really reallyyyyyy bad but they have heavily improved it. UI just feels more polished on chrome
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Sync doesn’t work for me, though it seems to work for everyone else. It doesn’t give me any error or a hint to what the problem might me, which is just bad UX.
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Chromecasting an entire tab doesn’t work, though I guess can’t we can’t blame Firefox for that, can we?
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My unit tests take at the very least twice as long to run on Firefox
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Pinned tabs occasionally just disappear and I have to create everything again. Extensions exist to prevent this but don’t work with multi containers, which is honestly Firefox best feature.
What stops you from finding extensions that implement similar functionality? I know tree style tabs are pretty popular instead of tab grouping. This also so the first time I’ve heard of sync or pinned tabs not working. I’m kinda curious ab ur setup if youd be cool with sharing that? I feel like it might be a setup problem instead of a software one.
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Just log out and log back in, and make sure you use the same account on both machines .
You guys switched away from Firefox?
Years ago Firefox had a massive memory leak that would wind up crashing FX randomly or just crushing your system resources. The bug persisted for years. and I swirched to Chrome to get away from that poor experience. A few years back, a random community contributer, that was also fed up, dug in and fixed several issues responsible for the leaks. I remeber thinking that I should give FX a go again, but didn’t until relatively recently.
Switched away to Vivaldi and Opera on desktop years ago due to better design and ability to swap between workspaces. Trying to migrate back to Firefox for ethical reasons. Desktop design still lags behind but privacy is great.
Been with the fox since before the quantum update. I never realized it was as obscure as it apparently is.
How many of these apply to ungoogled-chromium?
A lot of the privacy aspects mentioned in the article would apply but the extra features(like facebook container) would not. The extension support is also an issue since the extensions themselves have their own privacy policies, so if you get any which are hosted on google owned chrome web store all your privacy cautiousness goes down the drain unless you’re using a vpn.
Firefox addons also have their own privacy policies but you can simply choose the ones with open source licenses so it should be rather simple to be more protected.
I wish the password autofill feature was more robust for Firefox on Android. Using it as my default password provider but it regularly does not pick up on password fields.
Dunno if this helps you at all, but I’ve been using BitWarden to manage my passwords since I made the switch from Chrome to Firefox (both on PC and my Android phone). It doesn’t fill passwords automatically in either case, but it’s not much extra work to invoke BitWarden to fill those fields as-needed on either device, and it works very consistently. It’s also (I’m told) much more secure. Just thought I’d share that here!
BitWarden is adding autofill!
Personally I prefer ctrl + l
So, I’ve been using Bitwarden as an autofill service in Android and that works just as well I feel. Atleast for login details.
I’ve had this happen with obscure government sites that look like they were made in the 90s, I manually add the login & password for these
10 reasons:
- I always used Firefox
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- Google can suck my saggy man tits
I used it mainly for debugging sites until whichever update made it fast again recently. It’s noticeably improved.
I never got this whole “speed” argument.
I never had a lot of difference between both browsers (never got to use chrome much, admittedly), but even when it was supposedly “bad”, Firefox never struck me as being especially slow.
Was it a windows thing or what?
Screen capture being disabled in private mode on firefox is really reassuring to me.
Anybody else having flaky behavior with youtube videos in Firefox lately? Like, only audio resuming but video freezing after rewinding? I’m wondering if this is intentional on the part of Google.
I think youtube makes itself terrible if you don’t have premium. I have the problems you describe and others on both my desktop with FF or my chromebook with chrome.
Nope, it’s still just as terrible with premium.
Yes, but I’ve had it across multiple sites that play video, so I don’t think it’s youtube.
On my pc with a couple ad blockers youtube is SLOW.
If i turn them off it runs fine.
On my android using adaway I have zero youtube lag.
So yeah. Seems pretty intentional
I’ve heard this but it hasn’t happened to me.
Given Google and YouTube’s history of intentionally and maliciously disrupting other browsers that aren’t chrome, it’ll be a safe bet that it’s intentional.
So, the solution is to disable the adblocker? Not gonna happen
@L4s
Fully agree, but @howtogeek.com please enhance your privacy with reducing your dependency to third party scripts.Firefox Multiaccount Containers, the thing that can’t be beat by even the best chrome derivatives
Thanks but I’m sticking to Brave
Forgetting politics, I liked Brave. But sometimes they do seem a little shady. I’m loving Librewolf even more, though there’s no Android version. It does sync with Firefox and Mull though.
The only reason I have chrome even installed is because I am forced to use it for chromecast every once in a while.
I use Ungoogled Chromium exclusively for YouTube, cause my graphics card csn upscale videos and convert them to HDR, but not in Firefox. The moment I get those features in Firefox, I’m done with Chrome for good.
There’s a video service my therapist uses that refuses to run in Firefox. I expect it probably could, but it’s a lot less work to just launch chrome for that one use case.
Install a user agent switcher. There are several for Firefox and you can spoof chrome.
Welllll I also have the other use case of my partner refuses to switch, so she wants chrome on the computer too.
Use different user accounts. Do you own thing. You can have both installed.
I do have both installed, but it’s easier to use chrome for the one use case I have since it’s going to be installed anyway for her
Edit: oh you mean a user agent switcher too… Well, that seems like work 😛
I’m saying that you log in as “jojo” to the computer and another account is called “jojo’s gf”. You can do whatever you want in each and won’t bother the other. Computers are designed for muiltiuser use.
I’ll use edge for that, still chromium but it’s already installed anyway
I love Firefox. Been enjoying DDG browser on iOS.
And one thing that irks is that you can’t have a local file be your homepage and new tab page. I want to have all my work related links in a local immutable HTML page and every new tab or every time I open the browser it goes there for me to choose what of 5 links to pick…time sheet, team site, hr site, all the vendors sites etc…npr, my home servers etc. c’mon man! The only way to make it happen is to serve it on a local server that I am not allowed to install, or a server at home that I don’t actually want to do.
Host it on Netlify or something similar, it’s free.
Extensions are your friend My new tab has all my sites pinned. Have a look at the add-ons I am 99% sure what you want has already been made
TAB GROUPS, FIREFOX, BRING BACK TAB GROUPS.
And no, extensions aren’t helping, their UX is so much worse.
That’s just a make or break feature for me.
So I tried to find what tab groups are but most of the results are feature request threads so apologies if this isn’t what you want.
Waterfox will soon be adding some sort of tab grouping feature akin to what tree-style-tab extension does. Here’s the blogpost about it https://www.waterfox.net/blog/waterfox-x-treestyletab/
Again I’m not sure if that type of grouping is what you’re looking for but if it is consider watching out for the feature release. Longtime waterfox user and haven’t had many complaints, Alex has quickly responded to the two issues I made in the github including a feature request that got added within a week (ability to unload tabs with right click).
Not OP, but this is one of my long-time desires too. I’m pretty sure they mean Tab Groups implemented in the way Chrome does natively. Currently no extension on Firefox can do it on the tab bar because no extension can modify the tab bar.
When I right click on a tab in Firefox, I can reopen it in a container. The containers (at first glance) seem to be limited to Personal, Work, Banking, Shopping, and Facebook (which is probably there because I have Facebook container installed). In settings I can modify the container tabs available. (And turn the feature on or off, but it’s already on because of Facebook container.)
Is that what that is? It looks a lot like the example you linked. Firefox 123.0, but it’s been there for quite a while.
Not really, though the functionalities are adjacent and I could see how one would make that mistake. I do indeed use container tabs, and they’re a killer feature.
Tab groups are merely organizational, allowing you to reference, store, close, and save groups of tabs en masse; by contrast, container tabs don’t do ANY organization at all; you can’t group them all together, move them all to a new window as one, bookmark them all, close them all, etc.
Interesting, thanks. Seems like the containers could be expanded into the tab group functionality without too much trouble.
I would love tab groups
