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Re:Explanation of the state of uBlock Origin and other block... by hans1729 on Friday September 20, 2019 @08:14AM (#21025768)
As a chrome-user: this. Firefox lost me years ago due to performance differences, and since chrome works fine for me, there was no ux-related reason to switch back. The day I'll see ads everywhere will be the day I'm back to firefox, and without second thoughts at that. If I really like your service, I'll happily pay for it. I hate ads, the psychological strats behind them are completely unacceptable. I'd happily pay google a subscription-rate, if that's what it takes tbh. Take my money, not my attention.
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Re:Explanation of the state of uBlock Origin and other block... by collyw on Friday September 20, 2019 @08:28AM (#21025902)
I think Firefox is faster than Chrome these days. Unfortunately I prefer the web developer tools in Chrome, so I use Chromium as I wasn't a fan of every URL I type going to Google.
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Re:Explanation of the state of uBlock Origin and other block... by treypitt on Friday September 20, 2019 @08:52AM (#21026111)
Likewise. Unfortunately, some services such as YouTube TV don't work on chromium. Also if you're not on linux, updating is a pain (you must do it manually iirc)
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Re:Explanation of the state of uBlock Origin and other block... by collyw on Friday September 20, 2019 @10:37AM (#21027133)
Opera was my other workaround.
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Re:Explanation of the state of uBlock Origin and other block... by BuckRogers on Friday September 20, 2019 @11:09AM (#21027533)
Have you tried the Edge[0] preview dev tools? I have not but I know it also has an extension[1] for VSCode that seems interesting.

[0]https://www.microsoftedgeinsider.com/

[1]https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ms-edged...

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Re:Explanation of the state of uBlock Origin and other block... by collyw on Friday September 20, 2019 @11:16AM (#21027615)
I use Linux.
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Re:Explanation of the state of uBlock Origin and other block... by BuckRogers on Friday September 20, 2019 @12:07PM (#21028225)
Edge is macOS/Windows only but VSCode is available over there. Worth keeping an eye out because I wouldn't be surprised if Edge lands on desktop Linux[0] someday. I'm not a web developer and a Firefox diehard for almost 20 years now, but the Edge beta has become my fulltime Chrome alternative when I feel I need to try something on a Chromium-based browser.

[0]https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2019/04/microsoft-edge-may-come-...

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Re:Explanation of the state of uBlock Origin and other block... by lostmsu on Friday September 20, 2019 @10:45AM (#21027236)
Just a general warning. A few days ago I noticed Chromium from Chocolatey did not receive any updates in quite a while.
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Re:Explanation of the state of uBlock Origin and other block... by ryanisnan on Friday September 20, 2019 @11:40AM (#21027907)
Is unlimited system resource usage ok for you? If not, you should really re-evaluate your premise of performance differences. Fire up sys mon, activity mon, top, or what have you, open both browsers. Firefox wins on every metric by substantial amounts (memory for example wins by an order of magnitude).
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Re:Explanation of the state of uBlock Origin and other block... by hans1729 on Friday September 20, 2019 @12:10PM (#21028264)
Since I never max out my resources (mbp 2016, 16 gigs, entire workload happens on servers and not on my local machine) that doesn't really affect me - and with 50+ tabs open frequently, just go ahead and take my ram to keep them available, sure. Unused resources are wasted resources - and again, I'm never above 10gigs, maybe 12-13 if I have a local vm running.

Like I said: ux-wise, I'm not impacted negatively by using chrome, at all. If my laptops resources were more limited or my local workload was bigger, I'd probably check out Firefox, but since I'm not bottlenecked, why bother?

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Re:Explanation of the state of uBlock Origin and other block... by krzyk on Friday September 20, 2019 @02:42PM (#21029909)
Chrome uses more memory than Firefox. Just try opening 50 tabs in each - chrome will eat your RAM.
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Re:Explanation of the state of uBlock Origin and other block... by bduerst on Friday September 20, 2019 @06:51PM (#21032110)
I've never understood this argument. What's the purpose of having RAM if it's not utilized?
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Re:Explanation of the state of uBlock Origin and other block... by ryanisnan on Monday September 23, 2019 @04:50PM (#21053470)
That logic works if you're not bounded on RAM, but it's not an inexhaustible resource; personally I'd rather keep it free for VMs or other high cost operations.
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Re:Explanation of the state of uBlock Origin and other block... by sprafa on Friday September 20, 2019 @08:21AM (#21025837)
Firefox is fast again
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Re:Explanation of the state of uBlock Origin and other block... by Endy on Friday September 20, 2019 @08:29AM (#21025907)
Firefox always was fast. You were using it wrong.
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