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If you've got this dated view about Firefox it might be worth giving it another try. It's come on leaps and bounds, pretty much equally on par of speed against

If you've got this dated view about Firefox it might be worth giving it another try. It's come on leaps and bounds, pretty much equally on par of speed against Chrome/Edge etc. Sent from my Firefox install

ComputerGuru 5y ago
Only/One thing I hate about Firefox (under Windows) is it updates in the background with the helper service but the update isn’t fully applied until next launch. So you start Firefox, wait the requisite time for the entire browser to load, then your screen flashes and FF disappears, then it relaunches again for real. The old experience of manually updating it yourself when you felt like it was less annoying than this evergreen implementation!
- chias 5y ago
  If you use multiple profiles (e.g. i have a "personal" and a "work" profile), the experience is pretty bad -- if you close all windows of one profile, it considers itself as "exited" and overwrites the program files. And then your other profile windows no longer work: any page navigation results in "We're sorry, we just need to do one small thing" and a required restart of your browser. It's still my favorite browser though.
  - soapdog 5y ago
    You could use Firefox Containers for that.
    - arepublicadoceu 5y ago
      Containers is amazing but is missing one key feature: addons isolation. My Profile A have only ublock + bitwarden installed (my most trusted extensions) My Profile B have random useful extensions for sites like reddit and youtube that I don't necessarily trust but I don't care if only reddit data or my unlogged youtube profile gets compromised as it doesn't mix with my personal profile. I know that there's a permission system for addons but it's ridiculously bad as many extensions simply need/want permission for all your browsing data or access to all your tabs, history, etc.
      - chias 5y ago
        Indeed, cookies are only a tiny part of it. Add-on isolation, separate bookmarks, separate history / url-bar autocomplete, etc.
  - mkl 5y ago
    > "We're sorry, we just need to do one small thing" I get that even with a single profile. It's infuriating, because it happens when I go to a new site, and that new site is often not restored after it restarts - sometimes I lose it completely.
jandrese 5y ago
Firefox is basically as good as Chrome but it also has a default stance of protecting the users instead of giving all of your data directly to Google. Certainly it isn't perfect, but you feel like a bit less of a product when you use it. To make the HN crowd happy they have (re)written a bunch of the codebase in Rust.

ComputerGuru 5y ago

Only/One thing I hate about Firefox (under Windows) is it updates in the background with the helper service but the update isn’t fully applied until next launch. So you start Firefox, wait the requisite time for the entire browser to load, then your screen flashes and FF disappears, then it relaunches again for real. The old experience of manually updating it yourself when you felt like it was less annoying than this evergreen implementation!

chias 5y ago
If you use multiple profiles (e.g. i have a "personal" and a "work" profile), the experience is pretty bad -- if you close all windows of one profile, it considers itself as "exited" and overwrites the program files. And then your other profile windows no longer work: any page navigation results in "We're sorry, we just need to do one small thing" and a required restart of your browser. It's still my favorite browser though.
- soapdog 5y ago
  You could use Firefox Containers for that.
  - arepublicadoceu 5y ago
    Containers is amazing but is missing one key feature: addons isolation. My Profile A have only ublock + bitwarden installed (my most trusted extensions) My Profile B have random useful extensions for sites like reddit and youtube that I don't necessarily trust but I don't care if only reddit data or my unlogged youtube profile gets compromised as it doesn't mix with my personal profile. I know that there's a permission system for addons but it's ridiculously bad as many extensions simply need/want permission for all your browsing data or access to all your tabs, history, etc.
    - chias 5y ago
      Indeed, cookies are only a tiny part of it. Add-on isolation, separate bookmarks, separate history / url-bar autocomplete, etc.
- mkl 5y ago
  > "We're sorry, we just need to do one small thing" I get that even with a single profile. It's infuriating, because it happens when I go to a new site, and that new site is often not restored after it restarts - sometimes I lose it completely.

jandrese 5y ago

Firefox is basically as good as Chrome but it also has a default stance of protecting the users instead of giving all of your data directly to Google. Certainly it isn't perfect, but you feel like a bit less of a product when you use it. To make the HN crowd happy they have (re)written a bunch of the codebase in Rust.