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Passwords and bookmarks are in Chrome. That's the main point of friction. But I do re-evaluate Firefox from time to time. So far there has often been small thin

Passwords and bookmarks are in Chrome. That's the main point of friction. But I do re-evaluate Firefox from time to time. So far there has often been small things which made me reluctant. I think this feature is important enough for me to consider switching this time.

curiousgal 6y ago
You can easily transfer those to Firefox. That being said, I admit that staright out of the box Firefox doesn't have the same experience but you can customize every little thing about it to make it suit your needs.
- toyg 6y ago
  That’s too close for comfort to the Windows/Linux comparison. This said, I honestly don’t understand what people mean when they say the experience is “superior” in Chrome. It’s a web browser. It browses. You get passwords saved and synchronised. Everything else is an extension. What’s so bad about FF...?
  - CyanBird 6y ago
    I would love to get comments from Chrome users I just could not live without firefox and being unable to share tabs/links from anywhere in my phone to my desktop and or laptop
    - fastball 6y ago
      You can do that with Chrome if you are signed in.
    - kjakm 6y ago
      As a Safari user it boggles my mind that Firefox's send to device feature is considered good at all. All my Safari tabs are automatically synced to my phone at all times with no intervention needed from me. It's one of the few things keeping me from switching to Firefox actually.
      - toyg 6y ago
        > All my Safari tabs are automatically synced to my phone at all times I hate the hell out of that. My phone is my phone, my laptop is my laptop, just leave them alone.
        kjakm 6y ago
        I guess I'm forgetting there are people with dozens of tabs open at a time that probably wouldn't like this. The Safari thing does keep them separate though from your mobile tabs until you open one.
  - NateEag 6y ago
    The last time I tried to use Firefox for a daily desktop driver, I found its dev tools far less discoverable and powerful. It may be that they're as good or better and just harder to learn. Related, if you're debugging hybrid mobile apps, Chrome is pretty much the only game in town on Android, IIRC. It also felt noticeably slower at the time. Finally, with Chrome's market share, good extensions that Just Work are more common there, in my experience. I use a whole host of plugins on desktop, and when I looked at switching back to FF last year, I did not find equivalents for everything. I did go back to FF on mobile, because I do remember the nightmare of IE 6 and want to protect the web from total Google control. On mobile, I miss the dev tools and array of extensions less.
neurostimulant 6y ago
You can import your passwords into a 3rd party password manager and enjoy having them available on any devices and browsers supported by the password manager. As for bookmark, firefox should be able to import chrome bookmark. It can even import saved passwords and cookies so your active session is preserved.
- cryptica 6y ago
  I don't like to trust too many entities with my passwords. You can't avoid having to trust the browser maker but adding another third party password manager to the mix would just make me twice as vulnerable for no good reason.
  - curiousgal 6y ago
    Well, you only need one reason to use a password manager. https://github.com/AlessandroZ/LaZagne https://github.com/AlessandroZ/LaZagne
shbooms 6y ago
the latest version of Firefox has an "import Passwords from another browser" feature. just go to "about:logins" and click the menu in the top right hand corner.
nxpnsv 6y ago
Is that all? I had no trouble migrating. Maybe it will be a pain going back and forth a lot. Add-ons/extensions might be more painful though. I found it was a good time to clean up and get rid ones i anyway no longer care about.

curiousgal 6y ago

You can easily transfer those to Firefox. That being said, I admit that staright out of the box Firefox doesn't have the same experience but you can customize every little thing about it to make it suit your needs.

toyg 6y ago
That’s too close for comfort to the Windows/Linux comparison. This said, I honestly don’t understand what people mean when they say the experience is “superior” in Chrome. It’s a web browser. It browses. You get passwords saved and synchronised. Everything else is an extension. What’s so bad about FF...?
- CyanBird 6y ago
  I would love to get comments from Chrome users I just could not live without firefox and being unable to share tabs/links from anywhere in my phone to my desktop and or laptop
  - fastball 6y ago
    You can do that with Chrome if you are signed in.
  - kjakm 6y ago
    As a Safari user it boggles my mind that Firefox's send to device feature is considered good at all. All my Safari tabs are automatically synced to my phone at all times with no intervention needed from me. It's one of the few things keeping me from switching to Firefox actually.
    - toyg 6y ago
      > All my Safari tabs are automatically synced to my phone at all times I hate the hell out of that. My phone is my phone, my laptop is my laptop, just leave them alone.
      - kjakm 6y ago
        I guess I'm forgetting there are people with dozens of tabs open at a time that probably wouldn't like this. The Safari thing does keep them separate though from your mobile tabs until you open one.
- NateEag 6y ago
  The last time I tried to use Firefox for a daily desktop driver, I found its dev tools far less discoverable and powerful. It may be that they're as good or better and just harder to learn. Related, if you're debugging hybrid mobile apps, Chrome is pretty much the only game in town on Android, IIRC. It also felt noticeably slower at the time. Finally, with Chrome's market share, good extensions that Just Work are more common there, in my experience. I use a whole host of plugins on desktop, and when I looked at switching back to FF last year, I did not find equivalents for everything. I did go back to FF on mobile, because I do remember the nightmare of IE 6 and want to protect the web from total Google control. On mobile, I miss the dev tools and array of extensions less.

neurostimulant 6y ago

You can import your passwords into a 3rd party password manager and enjoy having them available on any devices and browsers supported by the password manager. As for bookmark, firefox should be able to import chrome bookmark. It can even import saved passwords and cookies so your active session is preserved.

cryptica 6y ago
I don't like to trust too many entities with my passwords. You can't avoid having to trust the browser maker but adding another third party password manager to the mix would just make me twice as vulnerable for no good reason.
- curiousgal 6y ago
  Well, you only need one reason to use a password manager. https://github.com/AlessandroZ/LaZagne https://github.com/AlessandroZ/LaZagne

shbooms 6y ago

the latest version of Firefox has an "import Passwords from another browser" feature. just go to "about:logins" and click the menu in the top right hand corner.

nxpnsv 6y ago

Is that all? I had no trouble migrating. Maybe it will be a pain going back and forth a lot. Add-ons/extensions might be more painful though. I found it was a good time to clean up and get rid ones i anyway no longer care about.