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Re:Firefox 70 by chrischen on Tuesday October 22, 2019 @11:29AM (#21324764)
Battery life is my primary concern, and unless they release battery life benchmarks I’d be hard pressed to switch off of Safari.
Re:Firefox 70 by shantly on Tuesday October 22, 2019 @11:53AM (#21325109)
Last I checked it was looking like they would now be as "good" as Chrome, which is much worse than Safari. Hopefully that improved or will soon improve.
Re:Firefox 70 by Scarbutt on Tuesday October 22, 2019 @01:21PM (#21326232)
Safari means no ublock, the web without is annoying.
Re:Firefox 70 by lpuerto on Wednesday October 23, 2019 @08:19AM (#21333788)
There are other options (paid ones) that are equal —or even better since they are quite automatic— than ublock.

The only two things I'm missing in safari to be hones are:

- A no-script extension or similar.

- Sync part of my work is on a no macOS machines I don't have safari there, so no sync. I partially overcome this with bookmaster for bookmarks, but I still missing tabs and read it later list. However, firefox doesn't have this later feature on desktop —and I don't why.

Re:Firefox 70 by techwizrd on Wednesday October 23, 2019 @12:59PM (#21336551)
Firefox Sync syncs your tabs, bookmarks, passwords, etc. Your read it later list is synced through Pocket (which is owned by Mozilla). They exist on desktop and mobile.
Re:Firefox 70 by moystard on Saturday October 26, 2019 @02:00PM (#21365190)
Still using pinboard; one of the best investment I made in my entire life.
Re:Firefox 70 by lpuerto on Thursday October 24, 2019 @03:58PM (#21348573)
Pocket sucks big time!
Re:Firefox 70 by otherblocks on Tuesday October 22, 2019 @06:29PM (#21329103)
FWIW, I started using 1Blocker recently with Safari and have found it to be quite good. YMMV.
Re:Firefox 70 by Scarbutt on Tuesday October 22, 2019 @11:18PM (#21330732)
nice try.
Re:Firefox 70 by perditus on Wednesday October 23, 2019 @12:38AM (#21331088)
Disconnect works well enough.
Re:Firefox 70 by stevewodil on Tuesday October 22, 2019 @11:32AM (#21324795)
Yeah, I just switched to Safari recently because of battery life
Re:Firefox 70 by ztakeo on Tuesday October 22, 2019 @01:08PM (#21326069)
Recently switched from Safari to Firefox because of the awful extensions environment in Safari but definitely missing the battery life. Really wish one browser could just get everything right