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I've been a casual Linux user on a personal laptop for years, and the way I've used Chromium is always as a "test on Chrome" tool on web app projects. Firefox i

by godot 6y ago

I've been a casual Linux user on a personal laptop for years, and the way I've used Chromium is always as a "test on Chrome" tool on web app projects. Firefox is the daily driver browser. In that sense, I don't lose out much by not having all the synchronization features etc. But I would lose out much by not having Chromium available at all. A side point, the post mentions having to retry broken web sites in Chrome being a ritual for Firefox users -- I can't think of many instances where that has been the case over the years. In fact, in the past decade it has been rare for any web site to fail in one browser and work in another. I remember two distinct cases: 1) H2O Wireless's account management (and bill paying) which didn't work in Chrome, and their tech support actually advised to use Firefox at the time (which worked), 2) Web Skype in recent years, for a time, dropped support for Firefox but only by user agent sniffing -- I was in fact able to get it to work completely fine on Firefox by using a plugin that changed my user agent string to say Chrome.

ceceron 6y ago
I'm mainly a Firefox user, but there are two cases when I fall back to another browser (Brave, in my case): - I have to maintain two MS Teams account for the professional reasons. I use one account in the electron app, one in the Brave. So Brave is just a Teams client... (if somebody knows a better solution to handle multiple Teams accounts on desktop, I would be grateful for any tips) - I have so many privacy/security enhancing extensions in Firefox, that some pages render/work incorrectly. I'm too lazy to disable the extensions, so in case I really need such a page, I switch to Brave. Otherwise Firefox is more than enough, I would say more - it's better IMHO than currently available chromium clones.
- TrianguloY 6y ago
  If you need different profiles (like having different firefoxes installed, each with their own addons, themes, tabs, bookmarks, etc) you can use the built-in Profile manager [0]. I personally have a secondary profile for testing, with some test addons and different bookmarks. If you only need different sessions (different cookies) you can use the official Multi-Account add-on [1]. I personally use it to be logged in simultaneously in two different accounts on sites where this is not possible (like GitHub). [0] : https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profile-manager-create-remove-switch-firefox-profiles https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profile-manager-create-... [1] : https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multi-account-containers/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multi-account...
jsmith99 6y ago
Using Firefox Android, I occasionally do need to retry sites in Chrome but rarely, especially in the current 'Fenix' version. On the desktop however, the only site I've ever had to retry in chrome in years is the browser ssh client in the GCP console - you just get a blank window on Firefox.
CleaveIt2Beaver 6y ago
FF is my main browser as well, and the only place where I've ever had to switch to Chrome is for our ERP system's web-based GUI; apparently Rocket, the engine it's based on, has some known issue where it doesn't accept certain letters when input from the keyboard as lowercase. I have no idea why that is, but I still use FF for everything else without incident. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

by godot 6y ago

ceceron 6y ago

I'm mainly a Firefox user, but there are two cases when I fall back to another browser (Brave, in my case): - I have to maintain two MS Teams account for the professional reasons. I use one account in the electron app, one in the Brave. So Brave is just a Teams client... (if somebody knows a better solution to handle multiple Teams accounts on desktop, I would be grateful for any tips) - I have so many privacy/security enhancing extensions in Firefox, that some pages render/work incorrectly. I'm too lazy to disable the extensions, so in case I really need such a page, I switch to Brave. Otherwise Firefox is more than enough, I would say more - it's better IMHO than currently available chromium clones.

TrianguloY 6y ago
If you need different profiles (like having different firefoxes installed, each with their own addons, themes, tabs, bookmarks, etc) you can use the built-in Profile manager [0]. I personally have a secondary profile for testing, with some test addons and different bookmarks. If you only need different sessions (different cookies) you can use the official Multi-Account add-on [1]. I personally use it to be logged in simultaneously in two different accounts on sites where this is not possible (like GitHub). [0] : https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profile-manager-create-remove-switch-firefox-profiles https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profile-manager-create-... [1] : https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multi-account-containers/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multi-account...

jsmith99 6y ago

Using Firefox Android, I occasionally do need to retry sites in Chrome but rarely, especially in the current 'Fenix' version. On the desktop however, the only site I've ever had to retry in chrome in years is the browser ssh client in the GCP console - you just get a blank window on Firefox.

CleaveIt2Beaver 6y ago

FF is my main browser as well, and the only place where I've ever had to switch to Chrome is for our ERP system's web-based GUI; apparently Rocket, the engine it's based on, has some known issue where it doesn't accept certain letters when input from the keyboard as lowercase. I have no idea why that is, but I still use FF for everything else without incident. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯