Microsoft proves the critics right: We’re heading toward a Chrome-only Web

Re:Microsoft proves the critics right: We’re heading toward ... by ignoramous on Tuesday March 12, 2019 @04:02PM (#19372371)

Firefox Mobile puts you seemingly in control by letting you install plugins like uMatrix, Privacy Badger, NoScript, Https Everywhere that are simply invaluable [0]. Once you start valuing your privacy, you'd see that no amt of fast scroll behaviour is going to convince you otherwise.

One thing you could try to see if Firefox speeds up by changing the number of processes it creates (defaults to 4) to 8, esp if you're on a machine with considerable RAM (16GiB+).

As for web-dev tools, doesn't Firefox ship a developer-only edition? Might want to try that out.

[0] On the flip side, you might want to try Chromium-based Brave or Vivaldi instead.

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Re:Microsoft proves the critics right: We’re heading toward ... by _bxg1 on Tuesday March 12, 2019 @04:12PM (#19372481)

> Once you start valuing your privacy, you'd see that no amt of fast scroll behaviour is going to convince you otherwise

I highly value my privacy; I switched to iOS because of it. I only use Chrome at work. I've got comprehensive content blockers set up on mobile Safari, which is where most of my personal browsing happens.

> As for web-dev tools, doesn't Firefox ship a developer-only edition?

I'd assume that's a version designed for developers who work on Firefox itself, not developers who use Firefox to work on the web. There would be no reason for them to omit some of their dev tools from the regular builds.

> On the flip side, you might want to try Chromium-based Brave or Vivaldi instead.

I tried and loved Vivaldi for a little while, until I ran into a catastrophic dev tools bug (can't remember what exactly). I also enjoyed Brave for a while, but it ended up being too slow too (this was when it had an Electron interface instead of being a fork, so it's probably better now).

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Re:Microsoft proves the critics right: We’re heading toward ... by Cederfjard on Tuesday March 12, 2019 @05:54PM (#19373455)

Firefox Developer Edition is indeed geared towards web developers. This is a pretty succinct summary of the specific features: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Firefox/Dev...

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Re:Microsoft proves the critics right: We’re heading toward ... by rufugee on Tuesday March 12, 2019 @05:48PM (#19373397)

> I'd assume that's a version designed for developers who work on Firefox itself, not developers who use Firefox to work on the web. There would be no reason for them to omit some of their dev tools from the regular builds.

That is a an incorrect assumption:

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/developer/

And why would there be no reason to omit these tools? If they're only going to see the light of day when a developer is using them, they're a waste of space for the average user, correct?

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Re:Microsoft proves the critics right: We’re heading toward ... by Mirioron on Wednesday March 13, 2019 @04:57AM (#19376912)

>Once you start valuing your privacy, you'd see that no amt of fast scroll behaviour is going to convince you otherwise.

I don't know how it is for other people, but the way Firefox's scroll works on mobile makes me want to not do anything on it. If Firefox were my only option to browse the internet on my phone then I just wouldn't.

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