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It's fast. It's fast. It's fast. Oh, and it pop-up blocks, adblocks, and flashblocks.

by pnathan 15y ago

ianterrell 15y ago
Periodically I'll get curious about seeing something in Firefox, but before it can load I'll get so bored I kill the process.
barredo 15y ago
There's a new kind of popup that's been eluding all browsers (Chrome, Fx, Safari, IE, etc), i don't know the technical details, but you can watch it visiting ThePirateBay for instance with a couple of clicks at most: it's there. How do they do it? I don't know, but no actual browser can block it. I'd guess they tie the click as a real user action to trigger the popup or something similar...
- emp_ 15y ago
  Because it is tied to your clicks, most popup injections now happen when you focus on a search-like field or click something, this is not an automated popup that the browser can block, the browser does believe you wanted to open that extra window.
- shoota 15y ago
  Supposedly this Firefox extension can help defeat them. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/adblock-plus-pop-up-addon/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/adblock-plus-...
Uchikoma 15y ago
It's fast. It does not take ages to start especially.
weavejester 15y ago
The question was what Chrome does differently to Firefox. Firefox had adblocking before Chrome ever existed. IMO Chrome: - Feels faster - Looks a bit better Firefox, on the other hand: - Has better extensions - Has a better URL bar search function I actually use Chrome nowadays. It turns out that the speed and looks of the UI are important enough that I can put up with less polished extensions and a slightly inferior URL bar. I wish Google would make their URL bar better though. Surely it can't be that hard to match in the middle of URLs rather than just matching from the beginning? :/
- eftpotrm 15y ago
  Can I add to this that I really don't like Chrome's tab handling in comparison? I'll regularly have 10+ tabs per window open. Firefox? No problem, they scroll and there's a pop-down menu to let me see what they all are at a glance. Chrome does neither of these, squashing my tab bar into unreadable oblivion. I'd also rate Firefox's bookmark and history functions as in another league compared to Chrome's rather basic offering, but neither of them are dealbreakers for me. Large tab group handling is, and Chrome just doesn't do it.
- enjo 15y ago
  * - Has a better URL bar search function * For me, it's the opposite. Chrome's search bar does what I want predictably (run a Google search) where the awesome bar sends me all sorts of crazy places. It's that feature alone that keeps me on chrome.
  - weavejester 15y ago
    I guess it depends on what you want to do. The Firefox awesome bar does a better job at guessing what bookmarked or historical site you want. For instance, if I type in "y" or "yc" in Firefox, then it correctly guesses that I probably want "news.ycombinator.com", because it's a site I often visit and one of the very few with "y" or "yc" in the domain name. Chrome, on the other hand, seems to only match from the start of bookmarked URLs. So "y" doesn't match, and nor does "yc". Instead it advises me to do a Google search. On the other hand, if I type "n", then it does guess that I want "news.ycombinator.com" (or "news.bbc.co.uk").
    - crb 15y ago
      In Chrome 12, under about:flags, there was an option to "Enable better omnibox history matching". If you enabled this, it fixed the behaviour to work how you want. I understand they didn't have it on from the beginning as it was a strain to do full-text search on the database of accessed sites. As of M13 it was made on by default. If I type 'y' I get YouTube, 'yc' a Google search, and 'yco' I get Hacker News.
  - 15y ago

It's fast. It's fast. It's fast. Oh, and it pop-up blocks, adblocks, and flashblocks.

by pnathan 15y ago

It's fast. It's fast. It's fast. Oh, and it pop-up blocks, adblocks, and flashblocks.

Periodically I'll get curious about seeing something in Firefox, but before it can load I'll get so bored I kill the process.

barredo 15y ago

There's a new kind of popup that's been eluding all browsers (Chrome, Fx, Safari, IE, etc), i don't know the technical details, but you can watch it visiting ThePirateBay for instance with a couple of clicks at most: it's there. How do they do it? I don't know, but no actual browser can block it. I'd guess they tie the click as a real user action to trigger the popup or something similar...

emp_ 15y ago
Because it is tied to your clicks, most popup injections now happen when you focus on a search-like field or click something, this is not an automated popup that the browser can block, the browser does believe you wanted to open that extra window.
shoota 15y ago
Supposedly this Firefox extension can help defeat them. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/adblock-plus-pop-up-addon/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/adblock-plus-...

Uchikoma 15y ago

It's fast. It does not take ages to start especially.

weavejester 15y ago

The question was what Chrome does differently to Firefox. Firefox had adblocking before Chrome ever existed. IMO Chrome: - Feels faster - Looks a bit better Firefox, on the other hand: - Has better extensions - Has a better URL bar search function I actually use Chrome nowadays. It turns out that the speed and looks of the UI are important enough that I can put up with less polished extensions and a slightly inferior URL bar. I wish Google would make their URL bar better though. Surely it can't be that hard to match in the middle of URLs rather than just matching from the beginning? :/

eftpotrm 15y ago
Can I add to this that I really don't like Chrome's tab handling in comparison? I'll regularly have 10+ tabs per window open. Firefox? No problem, they scroll and there's a pop-down menu to let me see what they all are at a glance. Chrome does neither of these, squashing my tab bar into unreadable oblivion. I'd also rate Firefox's bookmark and history functions as in another league compared to Chrome's rather basic offering, but neither of them are dealbreakers for me. Large tab group handling is, and Chrome just doesn't do it.
enjo 15y ago
* - Has a better URL bar search function * For me, it's the opposite. Chrome's search bar does what I want predictably (run a Google search) where the awesome bar sends me all sorts of crazy places. It's that feature alone that keeps me on chrome.
- weavejester 15y ago
  I guess it depends on what you want to do. The Firefox awesome bar does a better job at guessing what bookmarked or historical site you want. For instance, if I type in "y" or "yc" in Firefox, then it correctly guesses that I probably want "news.ycombinator.com", because it's a site I often visit and one of the very few with "y" or "yc" in the domain name. Chrome, on the other hand, seems to only match from the start of bookmarked URLs. So "y" doesn't match, and nor does "yc". Instead it advises me to do a Google search. On the other hand, if I type "n", then it does guess that I want "news.ycombinator.com" (or "news.bbc.co.uk").
  - crb 15y ago
    In Chrome 12, under about:flags, there was an option to "Enable better omnibox history matching". If you enabled this, it fixed the behaviour to work how you want. I understand they didn't have it on from the beginning as it was a strain to do full-text search on the database of accessed sites. As of M13 it was made on by default. If I type 'y' I get YouTube, 'yc' a Google search, and 'yco' I get Hacker News.
- 15y ago