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Imo it's dangerous for security reasons. Better start switching to ff from now

maxglute 3y ago
I actually tried to do the switch this week, still too many essential plugins/addons missing. I have some basic technical skills to rewrite some functions into userscripts. But it's still a fairly subpar experience.
- kelnos 3y ago
  I just kinda don't get this. I don't really think there are "essential" addons, aside from ad-blocking/privacy-related things (and Firefox is at least as good, and possibly better, than Chrome on those). Like... sure, web browser UX isn't always the best, but by rejecting Firefox on the merits of optional addons, you're just saying that the convenience of how you prefer to interact with a browser is more important than your privacy and ability to block ads. Which is fair, I suppose, but let's call it what it is. Meanwhile, we're back in the IE days: alternative browsers don't have enough market share to do much but accept whatever Google wants to do with the web. Frankly I'm just tired of people making excuses for using a browser made by a company that is actively making the web worse and eroding our privacy, bit by bit.
  - maxglute 3y ago
    Without getting into details there's a few niche extentions for my daily productivity that saves me a few hours every week. It's not critical, but it automates a bunch of things that would make switching cost for those tasks too high. Most of the missing things I can probably do without an adapt. I actually firefox UI more. >we're back in the IE days Reminds me of when Asian banks still required IE activex well into 2010s and one had to keep IE around, which was easy since it comes with Windows. I can probably use get used to firefox for most of my use case, but have to keep chrome around for some sites.
    - me-vs-cat 3y ago
      > there's a few niche extensions for my daily productivity that saves me a few hours every week I'm curious. Would you share which niche extensions?
      - maxglute 3y ago
        One example of one is Auto Copy, where chrome has version with indispensable features. https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/auto-copy/bijpdibkloghppkbmhcklkogpjaenfkg?pli=1 https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/auto-copy/bijpdibkl... My use case, primarily for research/keeping up to date in my domain is auto copying 100s of articles curated through feedly/other sources that gets automatically appended to daily text document by clipboard watch from balabolka (text to speech program), with meta data comment of url/title and visible confirmation dialogue confirming successful text copy (no firefox addon does this after search), which balabolka also automatically read to me at 3x speed. Basically, everything I'm interesting in reading gets converted into a reasonably labelled/chaptered podcast and digest with searchable transcript. Chrome with combined with tab groups and extensions that sort/order/dedupes tabs by domain also streamlines the process. Combination of tab groups sorting behavior and ability auto label auto copied text cuts daily chore from to a fraction of the time it use to, which saves hours each week. Google lens also very useful for OCRing text, or translating images of foreign language. I can also do that with powertoys, but it's more finicky and add extra steps, require hot keys to do efficiently vs on Chrome I can do most of it with just a mouse.
pxmpxm 3y ago
FUD
- Moldoteck 3y ago
  in what sense? Keeping your software without security patches being dangerous is fud?))

I actually tried to do the switch this week, still too many essential plugins/addons missing. I have some basic technical skills to rewrite some functions into userscripts. But it's still a fairly subpar experience.

kelnos 3y ago
I just kinda don't get this. I don't really think there are "essential" addons, aside from ad-blocking/privacy-related things (and Firefox is at least as good, and possibly better, than Chrome on those). Like... sure, web browser UX isn't always the best, but by rejecting Firefox on the merits of optional addons, you're just saying that the convenience of how you prefer to interact with a browser is more important than your privacy and ability to block ads. Which is fair, I suppose, but let's call it what it is. Meanwhile, we're back in the IE days: alternative browsers don't have enough market share to do much but accept whatever Google wants to do with the web. Frankly I'm just tired of people making excuses for using a browser made by a company that is actively making the web worse and eroding our privacy, bit by bit.
- maxglute 3y ago
  Without getting into details there's a few niche extentions for my daily productivity that saves me a few hours every week. It's not critical, but it automates a bunch of things that would make switching cost for those tasks too high. Most of the missing things I can probably do without an adapt. I actually firefox UI more. >we're back in the IE days Reminds me of when Asian banks still required IE activex well into 2010s and one had to keep IE around, which was easy since it comes with Windows. I can probably use get used to firefox for most of my use case, but have to keep chrome around for some sites.
  - me-vs-cat 3y ago
    > there's a few niche extensions for my daily productivity that saves me a few hours every week I'm curious. Would you share which niche extensions?
    - maxglute 3y ago
      One example of one is Auto Copy, where chrome has version with indispensable features. https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/auto-copy/bijpdibkloghppkbmhcklkogpjaenfkg?pli=1 https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/auto-copy/bijpdibkl... My use case, primarily for research/keeping up to date in my domain is auto copying 100s of articles curated through feedly/other sources that gets automatically appended to daily text document by clipboard watch from balabolka (text to speech program), with meta data comment of url/title and visible confirmation dialogue confirming successful text copy (no firefox addon does this after search), which balabolka also automatically read to me at 3x speed. Basically, everything I'm interesting in reading gets converted into a reasonably labelled/chaptered podcast and digest with searchable transcript. Chrome with combined with tab groups and extensions that sort/order/dedupes tabs by domain also streamlines the process. Combination of tab groups sorting behavior and ability auto label auto copied text cuts daily chore from to a fraction of the time it use to, which saves hours each week. Google lens also very useful for OCRing text, or translating images of foreign language. I can also do that with powertoys, but it's more finicky and add extra steps, require hot keys to do efficiently vs on Chrome I can do most of it with just a mouse.

pxmpxm 3y ago

FUD

Moldoteck 3y ago
in what sense? Keeping your software without security patches being dangerous is fud?))