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My experience disagrees. You may believe so, I won’t protest. But if you wanted to know why people don’t just migrate, this is the answer.

by wruza 2y ago

kennysoona 2y ago
It's hard to believe you when I take ad blocking more seriously than most and would be more likely to notice a difference than most. You might not believe me about that, which is fine. However, the claim in question seems like an objective claim for which empirical evidence would be very possible to provide, so until someone shows some clear examples I remain unconvinced.
kennysoona 2y ago
Ignore my other reply, for some reason I was sure you were commenting in a different thread and couldn't see context. Your experience disagrees, that's fine, but could you give some examples? What exactly would take weeks to migrate? Certainly not extensions and settings or bookmarks, so what would? It's not a question of belief when we have empirical evidence to work with.
- wruza 2y ago
  As I said below, I had to find a new way to manage my bookmarks due to the difference in how it works in Vivaldi. Also after some search I decided to write a custom search-with extension, which surprised me with learning web-ext signing. Another issue was with download location that works very strangely until you mess with about:config. Firefox also has scrolling tabbar, which I had to disable and restyle so I can actually see where tab buttons are. Spent time on finding a non-malbloat gestures ext. Still have to rewrite some ahk scripts for new bookmarklets placement. Failed to have custom shortcuts (ff has none). I remember having a few more issues but can’t tell now. Things like last tab standing, deciding which one of the history/recently closed lists to use, etc. It took a few days to investigate, google, try and fail, take rest, try again. Sure, I can do this faster now due to experience, but you start with none.
  - kennysoona 2y ago
    That's fair, it took a bit of time for me to convert everything from Brave back to Firefox when I switched, but once you have everything you need in both formats, you never really have to do anything like it again, not until a third browser that's worth something comes along at least.

My experience disagrees. You may believe so, I won’t protest. But if you wanted to know why people don’t just migrate, this is the answer.

by wruza 2y ago

My experience disagrees. You may believe so, I won’t protest. But if you wanted to know why people don’t just migrate, this is the answer.

kennysoona 2y ago

It's hard to believe you when I take ad blocking more seriously than most and would be more likely to notice a difference than most. You might not believe me about that, which is fine. However, the claim in question seems like an objective claim for which empirical evidence would be very possible to provide, so until someone shows some clear examples I remain unconvinced.

kennysoona 2y ago

Ignore my other reply, for some reason I was sure you were commenting in a different thread and couldn't see context. Your experience disagrees, that's fine, but could you give some examples? What exactly would take weeks to migrate? Certainly not extensions and settings or bookmarks, so what would? It's not a question of belief when we have empirical evidence to work with.

wruza 2y ago
As I said below, I had to find a new way to manage my bookmarks due to the difference in how it works in Vivaldi. Also after some search I decided to write a custom search-with extension, which surprised me with learning web-ext signing. Another issue was with download location that works very strangely until you mess with about:config. Firefox also has scrolling tabbar, which I had to disable and restyle so I can actually see where tab buttons are. Spent time on finding a non-malbloat gestures ext. Still have to rewrite some ahk scripts for new bookmarklets placement. Failed to have custom shortcuts (ff has none). I remember having a few more issues but can’t tell now. Things like last tab standing, deciding which one of the history/recently closed lists to use, etc. It took a few days to investigate, google, try and fail, take rest, try again. Sure, I can do this faster now due to experience, but you start with none.
- kennysoona 2y ago
  That's fair, it took a bit of time for me to convert everything from Brave back to Firefox when I switched, but once you have everything you need in both formats, you never really have to do anything like it again, not until a third browser that's worth something comes along at least.