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Whenever all the negative comments come up I mostly just assume there is a silent majority that continues to be happy with Firefox and doesn't say anything. I'v

Whenever all the negative comments come up I mostly just assume there is a silent majority that continues to be happy with Firefox and doesn't say anything. I've been using it for years with basically 0 issues. And I'm not using it to "stick it to Google" either. Containers and tree-style tabs are a huge productivity win.

asdff 4y ago
I love treestyle tabs and being able to autohide it until I mouse over, but I can't get containers to ever work as expected. I would expect when I click a link to e.g. ebay it would open in my ebay container in a new tab, and when I google something it puts me in a google container, and when I click a reddit link it puts me into the reddit container. Instead I am often still in the ebay container. Temporary containers are even worse with this, I would think opening up a new link to a different domain would put me into a new temporary container, but I am still in tmp7 or whatever the numbers have marched up to. I have regressed to just facebook container because its simpler to deal with just one container and associated issues.
- SAI_Peregrinus 4y ago
  The "Containerise" extension is sadly practically required to ged containers working as you'd expect.
  - asdff 4y ago
    Thanks for this, I had been trying every setting there was in the standard container extensions to no avail. Too bad that the way containers fundamentally works hijacks your back button, this was another annoyance I was remembering.
gnicholas 4y ago
I honestly don't know which side the silent majority/plurality is on. What makes you think they're on FF's side? Probably vis-a-vis Chrome that's true, but there are several other up-and-coming browsers out there. Also, TST isn't a FF-only feature now (Brave has started the rollout, Orion has a great implementation, and Edge has it also). My personal path was decades with FF and its predecessors, then Brave because it was much, much faster. Now I'm debating between Orion (which might win on performance/battery, due to being webkit), Brave (which is fast, and is evolving its TST capability), and Firefox (which works fine, but IME is a bit slower).

asdff 4y ago

I love treestyle tabs and being able to autohide it until I mouse over, but I can't get containers to ever work as expected. I would expect when I click a link to e.g. ebay it would open in my ebay container in a new tab, and when I google something it puts me in a google container, and when I click a reddit link it puts me into the reddit container. Instead I am often still in the ebay container. Temporary containers are even worse with this, I would think opening up a new link to a different domain would put me into a new temporary container, but I am still in tmp7 or whatever the numbers have marched up to. I have regressed to just facebook container because its simpler to deal with just one container and associated issues.

SAI_Peregrinus 4y ago
The "Containerise" extension is sadly practically required to ged containers working as you'd expect.
- asdff 4y ago
  Thanks for this, I had been trying every setting there was in the standard container extensions to no avail. Too bad that the way containers fundamentally works hijacks your back button, this was another annoyance I was remembering.

gnicholas 4y ago

I honestly don't know which side the silent majority/plurality is on. What makes you think they're on FF's side? Probably vis-a-vis Chrome that's true, but there are several other up-and-coming browsers out there. Also, TST isn't a FF-only feature now (Brave has started the rollout, Orion has a great implementation, and Edge has it also). My personal path was decades with FF and its predecessors, then Brave because it was much, much faster. Now I'm debating between Orion (which might win on performance/battery, due to being webkit), Brave (which is fast, and is evolving its TST capability), and Firefox (which works fine, but IME is a bit slower).