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>even if it is slightly slower than Chromium Funny thing is Firefox Quantum is both faster and eats less memory compared with Chrome. >not one that treats you

>even if it is slightly slower than Chromium Funny thing is Firefox Quantum is both faster and eats less memory compared with Chrome. >not one that treats you as a pawn. And sadly, Firefox is the only browser that doesn't treat you like a pawn. For MS, Google, Apple, that chinese company which owns Opera you are just a pawn. (later edit : fixed the second remark).

akerro 9y ago
>And sadly, Firefox is the only browser that does this. Not any more, I recently discovered that my firefox at work got infected with Firefox Pioneer. I didn't install that, it just appeared on list of my addons, no warning or anything. I heard on Reddit about similar cases from a few months ago, people got Safe Browsing installed without their knowledge. Both are signed addons from Mozilla. https://addons.mozilla.org/pl/firefox/addon/firefox-pioneer/ https://addons.mozilla.org/pl/firefox/addon/firefox-pioneer/
- unethical_ban 9y ago
  >at work Is youre IT group policy doing this?
  - deleted 9y ago
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  - akerro 9y ago
    Small company, we don't have such policies, root account on my PC at work belongs to me. It's Ubuntu. your
- ryuuchin 9y ago
  Safe browsing is now built in to Firefox (and Chrome) so I'm not sure what you're seeing there. It hasn't shipped as an addon for quite some time.
- Vinnl 9y ago
  > Participation is voluntary, and you can remove yourself by disabling the add-on after you install it. So it sounds like a bug or another case of non-malice. Tried reporting it at http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/ http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/?
noncoml 9y ago
>> not one that treats you as a pawn. > And sadly, Firefox is the only browser that does this. Do you mean to say Firefox treats you as a pawn? How so?(Genuinely interested)
- dfee 9y ago
  I read it as a typo, where the author intended to say: FireFox is the only browser that does [not do] this.
  - noncoml 9y ago
    OK, makes sense.
nilved 9y ago
You have a very narrow definition of "browser." Try xombrero, vimb, Luakit, uzbl or good old w3m.
MBCook 9y ago
Re: pawn What about Safari? (May not be an option based on OS though)
eagsalazar2 9y ago
Inspired by this post installed Quantum beta and used it for the last few hours. Stuttering videos and subtly laggy typing. In what sense it is faster?
- michaelmrose 9y ago
  Its an alpha/beta, your experience is clearly a bug rather than the expected behavior. Personally my experience has been bug free but unfortunately obviously not all bugs have been squished. I'm running nightly which in theory ought to have more chance at issues but more chances of fixes for said issues faster too.
- jhasse 9y ago
  Linux?
dingo_bat 9y ago
Agreed 100%. I'd been using Firefox right since the early betas but at one point the scrolling performance grew so janky that I had to switch to Chrome. I hate the kind of bullshit chrome keeps pulling, specially the IE-like random standards that they keep inventing to make sure other browsers can't use certain features. With quantum, Firefox is performing well. Even if chrome catches up I will not give up Firefox until it becomes so slow that I'm unable to use it normally. I don't care about the performance delta, just that it be good enough. Go Firefox!

akerro 9y ago

>And sadly, Firefox is the only browser that does this. Not any more, I recently discovered that my firefox at work got infected with Firefox Pioneer. I didn't install that, it just appeared on list of my addons, no warning or anything. I heard on Reddit about similar cases from a few months ago, people got Safe Browsing installed without their knowledge. Both are signed addons from Mozilla. https://addons.mozilla.org/pl/firefox/addon/firefox-pioneer/ https://addons.mozilla.org/pl/firefox/addon/firefox-pioneer/

unethical_ban 9y ago
>at work Is youre IT group policy doing this?
- deleted 9y ago
  [deleted]
- akerro 9y ago
  Small company, we don't have such policies, root account on my PC at work belongs to me. It's Ubuntu. your
ryuuchin 9y ago
Safe browsing is now built in to Firefox (and Chrome) so I'm not sure what you're seeing there. It hasn't shipped as an addon for quite some time.
Vinnl 9y ago
> Participation is voluntary, and you can remove yourself by disabling the add-on after you install it. So it sounds like a bug or another case of non-malice. Tried reporting it at http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/ http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/?

noncoml 9y ago

>> not one that treats you as a pawn. > And sadly, Firefox is the only browser that does this. Do you mean to say Firefox treats you as a pawn? How so?(Genuinely interested)

dfee 9y ago
I read it as a typo, where the author intended to say: FireFox is the only browser that does [not do] this.
- noncoml 9y ago
  OK, makes sense.

nilved 9y ago

You have a very narrow definition of "browser." Try xombrero, vimb, Luakit, uzbl or good old w3m.

MBCook 9y ago

Re: pawn What about Safari? (May not be an option based on OS though)

eagsalazar2 9y ago

Inspired by this post installed Quantum beta and used it for the last few hours. Stuttering videos and subtly laggy typing. In what sense it is faster?

michaelmrose 9y ago
Its an alpha/beta, your experience is clearly a bug rather than the expected behavior. Personally my experience has been bug free but unfortunately obviously not all bugs have been squished. I'm running nightly which in theory ought to have more chance at issues but more chances of fixes for said issues faster too.
jhasse 9y ago
Linux?

dingo_bat 9y ago

Agreed 100%. I'd been using Firefox right since the early betas but at one point the scrolling performance grew so janky that I had to switch to Chrome. I hate the kind of bullshit chrome keeps pulling, specially the IE-like random standards that they keep inventing to make sure other browsers can't use certain features. With quantum, Firefox is performing well. Even if chrome catches up I will not give up Firefox until it becomes so slow that I'm unable to use it normally. I don't care about the performance delta, just that it be good enough. Go Firefox!