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As a long time Chrome user, I decided to test Firefox with my recent Fedora 38 installation. It really seems to have improved a lot since last time I used it. I
by ceronman 3y ago
As a long time Chrome user, I decided to test Firefox with my recent Fedora 38 installation. It really seems to have improved a lot since last time I used it. It feels fast and snappy. I think the differences described in the benchmarks are small enough to not perceive any difference. And Firefox seems to work better with Wayland than Chrome. For example, Chrome fractional scaling on Wayland was broken by default but it worked out of the box in Firefox. I also have the perception that Firefox is using less memory than Chrome, but I actually haven't properly measured it.
The only feature that I'm seriously missing is Chrome's profile management. I use this a lot to have completely separate browsing experience between Work and Personal stuff. Separate history, separate cookies, separate extensions. In Chrome this works like a charm. It always remember my open tabs on each profile and it allows me to customize the windows of each profile to easily distinguish them. Firefox does have profiles, but the user experience is miles behind. I also tried the Multi-Account Containers extension, but it's not very good either.
After seeing the direction that Google is trying to take with WEI and similar stuff, I'm really looking forward to move 100% to Firefox.
- troyvit 3y agoI hear you about the profiles and multi-account containers. The containers are bundled now I think, but I never got them to work correctly. Once I started using a container it tended to want to put everything in it. It just wasn't user friendly. Maybe it's gotten better though.
- S0und 3y agoI had the same issue, as up right now there is no good solution. It does support multiple profiles, but you have to fiddle with them. Also I needed not just different profiles but different Firefox icons, so know which FF is work vs personal. Ended up with using FF stable as my work profile, and FF Nightly builds for personal.
- liminal 3y agoTry FF multi-account containers instead of switching profiles: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multi-account-containers/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multi-account...
- maverwa 3y agoIt may not solve any issue (e.g. separate history) but I wouldn’t want to use a browser without multi-account containers on my work laptop anymore. Separating internal O365 things form customer O365 things saves real time every day. No more logout-select other account-login again. Separating private browsing from that is a nice bonus. Only drawback is the pain I feel while viewing my co-workers stuggle with all that pain without using multi-account containers. But they too will see the light one day!