Re:A list of recent hostile moves by Google's Chrome team
by dralley on Monday August 07, 2023 @08:58PM
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>- No built-in page translate
It's an extension, look up Firefox Translate. It's even local-only. Or Google Translate for better results but less privacy.
This is the sort of thing that other people might consider "bloat"
- No download bar to show actual downloads (downloaded files are hidden under a menu icon)
- No built-in page translate
- Search: is in bottom left rather than top-right which is pretty standard in most UIs.
- Search: would be nice if "Highlight All" were on by default (though it's caused me problems on Chrome with large documents so I can see off by default having some advantage.)
- Search: most of those options should probably be hidden under "advanced" or some expandable menu.
- I don't like the scrolling tab view where I can only see less than 10 tabs at once. I'd rather they get really tiny like on Chrome rather than totally hidden. Otherwise it's unclear to me at a glance how many tabs I have open.
- Youtube seems to have higher CPU usage compared to chrome (at least on MacOS x86, non-fullscreen)
- Tabs are too easy to mute and seem less intuitive which ones are playing.
- Dev tools doesn't have the “lighthouse” audit tool.
- Would be nice if cmd+shift+n shortcut matched webkit/blink behavior. I'm slowly learning to use cmd+shift+p instead, but being consistent with all the other browsers would be nice.