• Silinde@lemmy.worldEnglish
      62·
      2 years ago

      I personally switched back to Firefox after 13 years earlier this year and was surprised just how easy it was. All my main extensions exist on Firefox and it gave me an opportunity to remove some extension bloat at the same time. Highly recommend.

      • mrmanager@lemmy.todayOPEnglish
        48·
        2 years ago

        Try container tabs!

        They have separate sessions so you can be logged in to the same site on multiple accounts. This is extreamly useful for stuff like being logged in to github using work account and company account or other sites where you just need many accounts. Aws is another good example.

        There is also temporary containers that leave no trace at all.

        • thehatfox@lemmy.worldEnglish
          21·
          2 years ago

          Containers are one of the best features Firefox has gained in recent years. They make managing multiple website accounts so much easier than trying to use multiple browsers or browser profiles. They are also useful for developers in lots of ways.

          I don’t know why Mozilla doesn’t promote Containers more, they can’t even be used out of the box because they have to be enabled with an extension. It’s a far better feature than many of the other recent gimmicks like time limited colour schemes.

        • kobra@lemm.eeEnglish
          10·
          2 years ago

          omg i’ve left my ‘work’ stuff on edge because of this reason but i guess i’ll migrate this to firefox too 🤯

        • dangling_cat@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
          01·
          2 years ago

          I love Firefox but It’s not as good as chrome profiles. You can’t just have a container with Honey and whatever tracking extensions just for shopping. It’s all or nothing.

        • HollowNotion@lemmy.worldEnglish
          14·
          2 years ago

          Container Tabs sounds so useful, but fair warning to anyone else looking to check it out… I think it’s kinda buggy. My sessions got all fucked up when I tried using it. I ended up removing it entirely and just going without.

          • lolcatnip@reddthat.comEnglish
            11·
            2 years ago

            I’ve never encountered them being buggy, but I have encountered them being confusing and frustrating, like if a site wants to use Facebook to log you in, but you have Facebook running in a separate container, so it doesn’t work no matter how many times you sign in to Facebook. It’s easy to have happen in you forget you’re using containers.

      • techgearwhips@lemmy.worldEnglish
        81·
        2 years ago

        Yea when I started my Degoogle thing a few months back, I also switched to Firefox and it’s been great.

        • spez_@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          2 years ago

          How has your degoogle process being coming along? For Google Photos, I’ve just switched to Immich and it’s perfect

      • Lemmington Bunnie@aussie.zoneEnglish
        1·
        2 years ago

        I switched over what probably was a small thing, but is big to me.

        I like to have my tabs in a list, and google enforced the grid and kept breaking ways to put it back to list.

        Once they blocked me from being able to revert, that was it.

        I still use it on my work machine as I find the syncing works beautifully, important as I have need to swap between desktop and laptop occasionally, and there are other desktop features I enjoy.

        But as for mobile - I am done.

        I adored the fox when I used Mozilla everything back in the day, so it’s like coming home.

      • Lemmington Bunnie@aussie.zoneEnglish
        1·
        2 years ago

        I switched over what probably was a small thing, but is big to me.

        I like to have my tabs in a list, and google enforced the grid and kept breaking ways to put it back to list.

        Once they blocked me from being able to revert, that was it.

        I still use it on my work machine as I find the syncing works beautifully, important as I have need to swap between desktop and laptop occasionally, and there are other desktop features I enjoy.

        But as for mobile - I am done.

        I adored the fox when I used Mozilla everything back in the day, so it’s like coming home.

    • janNatan@lemmy.mlEnglish
      6·
      2 years ago

      Wait, will Firefox be immune to this whole website DRM thing Google is trying to pull? That would be awesome. Fennec on Android gang.

      • FoxBJK@midwest.socialEnglish
        45·
        2 years ago

        The issue is less about which browsers will roll this out and more about which websites will require it. How soon until we can’t access banking information? Will filing taxes require this?

        • janNatan@lemmy.mlEnglish
          71·
          2 years ago

          Oh, bummer. Got my hopes up and then dashed them quite expertly, sir. Bravo!

          • mrmanager@lemmy.todayOPEnglish
            171·
            2 years ago

            Well we will see. There will be a lot of demand for websites that doesn’t go along with this shit. So maybe we get a web where individuals again are contributing on their own sites while big tech goes the DRM way.

            The same people who today run Lemmy instances are the kind of people that are also interested in seeing that kind of a web, and can help build it. We don’t do it for money.

          • NightOwl@lemmy.oneEnglish
            21·
            2 years ago

            You see it to some extent on regular sites when browsing on mobile. Like if you go to Crunchyroll on safari or brave on iOS and try to stream a video it refuses to and tells you to download the Crunchyroll app. It is capable of streaming it though, since I can do so in Safari on Android.

            So imagine that but more ubiquitous which locking out specific devices or refusing to let you login in a bank account by saying please download chrome or edge to access due to requiring DRM.

    • t0m5k1@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      2 years ago

      What’s the Firefox equivalent to:

      Brave.exe --app="http://lemmy.world"

      I use this a lot as I detest electron based applications. Mozilla dropped prism years ago and before that there was xulrunner and you cant open a JavaScript popup window without clicking a bookmark.

      When Firefox has this very basic function perhaps I’ll consider moving.

      • DogMuffins@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
        8·
        2 years ago

        This just changes the OS chrome on a browser tab right ? I generally dislike electron apps, but when they’re literally just a browser tab I’d rather just leave it in the browser.

        • t0m5k1@lemmy.worldEnglish
          32·
          2 years ago

          This just changes the OS chrome on a browser tab right ?

          No this just opens the website in it’s own window so it looks similar to an electron app, another way to do this is to open chrome://apps, drag any bookmark to this window/tab and right click to create icons.

          It does nothing to the “OS” of the browser.

          • DogMuffins@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
            92·
            2 years ago

            Dude, “os chrome” refers to the window, as in the frame around the webpage.

            So yes, it’s like a browser tab with a hidden url bar. Amazing.

        • t0m5k1@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          2 years ago

          I used this for awhile but it’s more of a framework that requires vcredist and a local install of pwaforff binary to work around the short comings of mozilla pulling the plumbing out of the browser.

          It’s a good workaround can have it’s issues when one part receives an update that the rest isn’t aware of.