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This is good news, and makes me want to start using it again. Was a user from the Phoenix/Firebird days with the "unzip it somewhere" fancy installation proces

This is good news, and makes me want to start using it again. Was a user from the Phoenix/Firebird days with the "unzip it somewhere" fancy installation process, used it for almost 20 years, and then switched to a Chromium-based browser due to perceivable speed differences. I wasn't running benchmarks to confirm my suspicions or that performing some action was x milliseconds slower in Firefox or anything. But when you're using something all day, every day including as part of your job, it is easy to get a feel for. With these multiple reports recently of performance work, along with real-world metrics ... I'm thinking of sticking with it for a few days again. If I don't notice the difference, or it actually seems faster, I'll switch back. I want to switch back, because we need to ensure there are alternate browser engines, and I don't want standards committees to turn into "this year, Google deems we shall be doing the following" sort of events.

diroussel 3y ago
Combine the good performance with great add-ons like Multi Account Containers, and Tree Style Tabs, and you have a great browser.
- mackrevinack 3y ago
  the user.js file is a very underrated feature as well. i have a few computers and some of them are dual boot which means i have a lot of firefox installs so its great just being able to drop in the user.js file and have everything set up the way i like it
  - diroussel 3y ago
    I have a userChrome.css to hide the default tabs. What do you have in your user.js and have you automated the install of it? Here is a reference for the userChrome.css to hide the default tabs. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23268077 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23268077
    - mackrevinack 3y ago
      heres a few general ones. on my linux computers i have a bash script to install firefox, then it sets up symlink of the user.js file from my own config folder to the default .config folder. on windows i just manually add it user_pref("browser.aboutConfig.showWarning", "false"); // disable about:config warning user_pref("browser.startup.page", 3); // restore previous session user_pref("browser.ctrlTab.sortByRecentlyUsed", "true"); // cycles tabs in recently used order user_pref("signon.rememberSignons", "false"); // dont ask to save passwords user_pref("browser.search.suggest.enabled", "false"); // disable address bar suggestions user_pref("toolkit.legacyUserProfileCustomizations.stylesheets", "true"); // enable custom css this is the only css i could find that i like since it keeps the window controls as well, although since a recent update, theyre just showing as a white box now but they still works https://github.com/mbnuqw/sidebery/issues/458#issuecomment-907383227 https://github.com/mbnuqw/sidebery/issues/458#issuecomment-9...
- CuriousCosmic 3y ago
  Or instead of Tree Style Tabs, using Simple Tab Groups which I find has far better UX: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/simple-tab-groups/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/simple-tab-gr...
  - Ayesh 3y ago
    It's good to see STG praised here. I context switch often, and am so much more productive because of this plugin.
- purerandomness 3y ago
  Nowadays it seems that everybody switched to Sidebery, the tree-style tabs add-on that Tree Style Tabs always wanted to be.

diroussel 3y ago

Combine the good performance with great add-ons like Multi Account Containers, and Tree Style Tabs, and you have a great browser.

mackrevinack 3y ago
the user.js file is a very underrated feature as well. i have a few computers and some of them are dual boot which means i have a lot of firefox installs so its great just being able to drop in the user.js file and have everything set up the way i like it
- diroussel 3y ago
  I have a userChrome.css to hide the default tabs. What do you have in your user.js and have you automated the install of it? Here is a reference for the userChrome.css to hide the default tabs. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23268077 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23268077
  - mackrevinack 3y ago
    heres a few general ones. on my linux computers i have a bash script to install firefox, then it sets up symlink of the user.js file from my own config folder to the default .config folder. on windows i just manually add it user_pref("browser.aboutConfig.showWarning", "false"); // disable about:config warning user_pref("browser.startup.page", 3); // restore previous session user_pref("browser.ctrlTab.sortByRecentlyUsed", "true"); // cycles tabs in recently used order user_pref("signon.rememberSignons", "false"); // dont ask to save passwords user_pref("browser.search.suggest.enabled", "false"); // disable address bar suggestions user_pref("toolkit.legacyUserProfileCustomizations.stylesheets", "true"); // enable custom css this is the only css i could find that i like since it keeps the window controls as well, although since a recent update, theyre just showing as a white box now but they still works https://github.com/mbnuqw/sidebery/issues/458#issuecomment-907383227 https://github.com/mbnuqw/sidebery/issues/458#issuecomment-9...
CuriousCosmic 3y ago
Or instead of Tree Style Tabs, using Simple Tab Groups which I find has far better UX: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/simple-tab-groups/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/simple-tab-gr...
- Ayesh 3y ago
  It's good to see STG praised here. I context switch often, and am so much more productive because of this plugin.
purerandomness 3y ago
Nowadays it seems that everybody switched to Sidebery, the tree-style tabs add-on that Tree Style Tabs always wanted to be.