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I try to switch to Firefox (or even Safari) every few months or so. Firefox was close this time, but there were still a few things that forced me to switch bac
by fossuser 8y ago
I try to switch to Firefox (or even Safari) every few months or so.
Firefox was close this time, but there were still a few things that forced me to switch back:
- On Chrome I can type 'thisisunsafe' (previously 'danger' and 'badidea') to skip security warnings, sometimes I have to do this at work when testing things with invalid certs. On FF there's a class of these issues (HSTS I think?) that doesn't let you bypass the warning so it's unusable.
- FF still crashes more regularly (like when plugging or unplugging an external monitor.
Thankfully the other two main issues are no longer a problem:
- FF is now fast enough to be comparable
- The third party extensions I required (switchy omega) now exist for FF.
- brianpgordon 8y agoYeah that HSTS issue is ridiculous, although to be fair the spec requires browsers to give users "no recourse" to bypass the error. I'm also still annoyed by https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=85601 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=85601
- dfox 8y agoMy experience is that on Chromium you can bypass HSTS-related errors by typing something, but expired certificate gives you patronizing "you have clock set wrong, go fix it" message and no way to bypass it. (But maybe I'm just doing something wrong) Another issue is that Chrome uses trust store from underlying OS which means that it does not support ECC certificates (ie. Cloudflare) on Windows XP. (Lets just say that there are valid reasons why one would want to use XP today and download something from web...)