Switch from Chrome to Firefox

Re:Switch from Chrome to Firefox by dgellow on Thursday May 30, 2019 @03:58PM (#20055319)

I’m a developer and power user, I switched to Firefox months ago. What is making difficult to switch? I found equivalent for all my plugins so far.

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Re:Switch from Chrome to Firefox by TheKarateKid on Thursday May 30, 2019 @09:25PM (#20057544)

What many others have already said - it's slower and many popular sites don't work properly on it. I don't feel like randomly having websites break when I am trying to get things done.

Even on a newer computer Firefox feels jagged and hangs. Memory leaks still happening years later. It is so frustrating to see Firefox using 1.5GB of RAM when only 2 tabs remain.

Quantum helped a lot, but it's still not enough for me and many others.

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Re:Switch from Chrome to Firefox by wtetzner on Thursday May 30, 2019 @10:27PM (#20057800)

Really? Firefox feels faster to me than Chrome at this point. I use both for work, but I prefer Firefox at home.

What popular sites don't work in Firefox?

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Re:Switch from Chrome to Firefox by dgellow on Friday May 31, 2019 @02:00AM (#20058559)

> many popular sites don't work properly on it

Really? Do you have examples? I haven’t faced this issue. Some websites breaks somehow if you block 3rd party tracking (by breaking I mean that some pictures or video embedded into the page won’t load), but that’s an opt-in feature so I don’t think that’s what you mean.

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Re:Switch from Chrome to Firefox by HelloNurse on Friday May 31, 2019 @04:28AM (#20059176)

Popular sites? If they work only with Chrome they aren't popular sites for me, and I'm happy to know that I shouldn't trust them too much.

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Re:Switch from Chrome to Firefox by fimdomeio on Friday May 31, 2019 @02:15AM (#20058625)

I suffered with the same until around december last year. Ever since I cannot distinguish chrome from firefox most of the time.

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Re:Switch from Chrome to Firefox by feedbeef on Thursday May 30, 2019 @06:31PM (#20056601)

I've had a terrible time using Firefox since Tab Mix Plus was killed. Dev is working on a replacement but many of the necessary APIs were also killed in the great add-on death of 2017 (Firefox 57), and have yet to be rewritten (and may never be).

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Re:Switch from Chrome to Firefox by sailfast on Thursday May 30, 2019 @04:06PM (#20055374)

Same here. I'd also highly recommend Firefox Focus for mobile. Now to convince my enterprise network admins...

It would probably take me a bit to figure out exactly how to work with the FireFox advanced debugging tools, but it's familiar territory.

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Re:Switch from Chrome to Firefox by tomjen3 on Thursday May 30, 2019 @04:31PM (#20055608)

What is the equivalent for one tab? It is technically simple enough that I could develop one one my own, except I remember firefox extensions to be an unbelievable pain to install back in the day.

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Re:Switch from Chrome to Firefox by abdullahkhalids on Thursday May 30, 2019 @06:27PM (#20056562)

If you want the ability to save lists of Tabs, Firefox has https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tree-style-ta... which makes tabs appear in the sidebar, which makes managing even dozens of tabs simple.

Installing is one click - as simple as the chrome web store.

If you want the ability to unload tabs, firefox struggles with it. The best addon is https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/unload-tabs/ but it admits that it is buggy. Haven't tried it though.

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Re:Switch from Chrome to Firefox by depressedpanda on Thursday May 30, 2019 @08:37PM (#20057303)

You don't need an equivalent, One Tab is available for Firefox also.

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