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My exit from Firefox was on 91, having moved over to Edge last month. After nearly 20 years on it, through thick and thin since 2002. While I'll always love Fir
by BuckRogers 5y ago
My exit from Firefox was on 91, having moved over to Edge last month. After nearly 20 years on it, through thick and thin since 2002. While I'll always love Firefox, I won't be using it because they disabled what made the browser indispensable for me. That's keyword searches in the dedicated search bar. While the settings UI says they're supposed to work, they don't. They only work in the address bar. If I'm to use an omnibar, why am I not taking the superior performance and compatibility from Edge? So I did.
There were a few changes to get used to. Instead of the LiveMarks[0] extension (which I highly recommend to FF users), I had to move to Inoreader. Which I already used on my phone so that was easy. And to any Inoreader users seeing this, if you don't have a premium account, don't forget to disable uBlock Origin on their page. It's one of the few sites that I make sure ads come flowing through as it's such a well-done service.
I also just love the direction Microsoft has taken Chromium. It just feels like microseconds are taken off of everything I do, and it adds up to a cumulative effect that matters. But I should note that moving from my 5900X to my 11900K cleared up most of the difference between Firefox and Edge in performance. While Edge feels fast on both systems, there's a bigger difference for Firefox going from the AMD system to Intel, for whatever reason. Either the 5.3GHz clocks, compiler optimizations, or both. Otherwise the vertical tabs, the tab groups, the ability to remove the top toolbar while using vertical tabs are really nice. It's just great for my work since I do need to develop in something-Chromium. And most importantly, I just suspect it's going to get better and better. Since while it's an unpopular notion around here, Microsoft does do software pretty damn well in my experience. I'm not sure a large entity actually does it better in either design or quality. That's just my opinion based on my experience, so don't hit me! They're definitely up there in any case, broadly speaking. I've resisted native browsers, which have a lot of inherent advantages over anything else, for a long time. I think Edge has a bright future.
[0]https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/livemarks/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/livemarks/
- acqq 5y agoAlso, on one 32-bit computer (there are still such) under W10 I observe much less issues in Egde than in Firefox when watching videos. Also, I also have the problems with the Proton, like here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28444315 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28444315 Hacks don't work on 92, on 91 were "half" better. With 92 even the close button is not visible when trying to reduce the vertical space loss. Sad. Also, previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27439917 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27439917