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Re:Reasons to ditch Chrome and use Firefox by TekMol on Saturday May 28, 2022 @06:52AM (#31539263) 

    finding a cool article while I'm sitting
    on the couch and sending it to my desktop so
    I can read it later
Isn't that just a link?

I solve this by having a list of links on the web that I can access from everywhere.

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Re:Reasons to ditch Chrome and use Firefox by sph on Saturday May 28, 2022 @07:45AM (#31539545)
It's that curlftpfs Dropbox comment again.

It takes 20x as much time and work to copy a link, context switch to another app, paste, then, when you're on the desktop, _remember_ to check that shared document, and open the link, than to just press option menu, send tab, choose linux desktop and bam!, it's there as soon as you open your browser the next day.

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Re:Reasons to ditch Chrome and use Firefox by kwhitefoot on Saturday May 28, 2022 @07:22AM (#31539437)
Firefox can share history and bookmarks with other instances running on other machines even if the other is not running at the time and you don't need to do anything to make it happen once you have set it up.
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Re:Reasons to ditch Chrome and use Firefox by moffkalast on Saturday May 28, 2022 @07:39AM (#31539515)
Or you know, just drag the url to the desktop.

I'm more concerned with Firefox's lack of per-tab screenshare in meet/jitsi/etc.

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Re:Reasons to ditch Chrome and use Firefox by sph on Saturday May 28, 2022 @09:00AM (#31539994)
Please show me how to drag a url from my phone to my Linux desktop.
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Re:Reasons to ditch Chrome and use Firefox by moffkalast on Saturday May 28, 2022 @12:47PM (#31541765)
Wait, and how is Firefox capable of doing that?
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Re:Reasons to ditch Chrome and use Firefox by alpaca128 on Saturday May 28, 2022 @03:23PM (#31542952)
With an online account that syncs the Firefox profile across all devices. And part of that is the ability to send a link to a specific device, which will then automatically load that URL in a new tab.
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Re:Reasons to ditch Chrome and use Firefox by moffkalast on Saturday May 28, 2022 @04:24PM (#31543472)
Sounds a bit counterproductive if privacy is your goal isn't it? Why would you be signed into your browser.
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