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11: It’s the only browser on the market that is not either apple webkit or google chrome based. And it’s in our best interest to keep said market healthy, with as many competing actors as possible.
I just had to install chrome to book plane tickets. Kept getting an error on Firefox.
There’s a new feature inside Firefox that allows you to report webpages that are broken on Firefox but work in other browsers. Please use it. It’s a great way to push for universal compatibility within browsers. It’s usually the webpage developer’s fault for using a non-orthodox technique that works exclusively on Chrome, but shouldn’t be done for any sort of reasons, like compliance with web standards. But, it’s possible for Firefox to derive intelligence from the reports and write workarounds.
All the more reason to get more people to use it.
Try changing your user agent. What’s the error?
When I was choosing a return site it kept saying, “oops there was a mistake. It was not your fault. Try again later”.
Their mobile app sucked too, so I installed chrome to see if it would work and it did right away.
If websites don’t work on Firefox even if the user agent was changed to Chrome I recommend you to use a privacy preserving browser like ungoogled chromium.
Or find another service.
Bit hard to do that with government websites and stuff like that.
Time to emigrate! /s
Thanks! I just downloaded chrome to use for this one off instance. I’m pretty degoogled, but needed to book a flight so I just needed to get it done.
Thai Airways by any chance? I kept getting weird errors in ff but was ok I’m chrome.
Posting this on Lemmy is preaching to the choir.
have any instance admins ever shared the browser stats?
Hi. I’m on lemmy. I haven’t switched. Why? Because there an insane amount of incorporation into Google. Email, my phone communicating to pc, passwords, auto fill, saved cookies, credit cards.
I want to switch. I want to get off chrome from what I’ve been reading regarding it’s practices. But I’m so engraved and the undertaking of switching is not something I’ve committed to yet. Or might never. I already have a Google Home in my kitchen. I feel like privacy isn’t something I have a privilege of anymore.
They’ve got me.
You store your passwords on Chome?
Yes 😢
Oh man! Download KeePassXC, put your passwords on there, install the browser extension to use it in your browsers. You can back it up any way you want, including using Google Drive because the file is encrypted.
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Some people don’t want to sign up to a cloud provider or manage their own instance. KeePassXC offers a simple file that can be stored on your devices. It’s easy to sync using your existing cloud accounts and encrypted.
There’s like… no downside: all upside.
Edit: I exaggerated, of course. Below this are some downsides that individuals have experienced. But personally, my experience using Firefox on desktop for Mac has been all upside. If everybody who can just tries it out, you might be surprised at how friction-free the change is.
One thing I miss in Firefox is tab grouping. Yes there are 3rd party extensions that do that. But Chromium based browsers support that natively.
Sideberry is leaps and bounds better at it imo tho
Yeah, this extension is crazy good. It works as if it was native.
Agreed, and it seems like Firefox has recently made an effort to accommodate the extension more, as it seems to run even better than it used to and is now a recommended extension
It gives me anxiety, it’s way too overcrowded and cluttered. I use Tree Style Tab. It does one thing, it does it well, it doesn’t overcomplicate it, it works with me.
I will say it took me some time to get used to it, but it also is a lot easier to use than it used to, they made a lot of things better in the last update
I think it’s one of those things that you have to sit down and test out and really figure out. Tree style tabs are also good though. I definitely think it’s where sideberry got their inspiration
You haven’t tried Vivaldi then. It has the best tab management features of any browser by leaps and bounds, it saddens me they chose Chromium over Gecko given that manifest v3 is coming.
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No, in my experience especially the Android version of Firefox is less smooth when playing animations or scrolling on older or lower end devices.
I really hope with the new Focus on Firefox mobile, that they will iron that out.
You guys switched away from Firefox?
Switched away to Vivaldi and Opera on desktop years ago due to better design and ability to swap between workspaces. Trying to migrate back to Firefox for ethical reasons. Desktop design still lags behind but privacy is great.
Been with the fox since before the quantum update. I never realized it was as obscure as it apparently is.
It wasn’t, popularity waned slowly over the years.
I wish the password autofill feature was more robust for Firefox on Android. Using it as my default password provider but it regularly does not pick up on password fields.
Dunno if this helps you at all, but I’ve been using BitWarden to manage my passwords since I made the switch from Chrome to Firefox (both on PC and my Android phone). It doesn’t fill passwords automatically in either case, but it’s not much extra work to invoke BitWarden to fill those fields as-needed on either device, and it works very consistently. It’s also (I’m told) much more secure. Just thought I’d share that here!
BitWarden is adding autofill!
Personally I prefer ctrl + l
I’ve had this happen with obscure government sites that look like they were made in the 90s, I manually add the login & password for these
TAB GROUPS, FIREFOX, BRING BACK TAB GROUPS.
And no, extensions aren’t helping, their UX is so much worse.
That’s just a make or break feature for me.
I would love tab groups
So I tried to find what tab groups are but most of the results are feature request threads so apologies if this isn’t what you want.
Waterfox will soon be adding some sort of tab grouping feature akin to what tree-style-tab extension does. Here’s the blogpost about it https://www.waterfox.net/blog/waterfox-x-treestyletab/
Again I’m not sure if that type of grouping is what you’re looking for but if it is consider watching out for the feature release. Longtime waterfox user and haven’t had many complaints, Alex has quickly responded to the two issues I made in the github including a feature request that got added within a week (ability to unload tabs with right click).
Not OP, but this is one of my long-time desires too. I’m pretty sure they mean Tab Groups implemented in the way Chrome does natively. Currently no extension on Firefox can do it on the tab bar because no extension can modify the tab bar.
Yes, albeit like Vivaldi/Arc.
When I right click on a tab in Firefox, I can reopen it in a container. The containers (at first glance) seem to be limited to Personal, Work, Banking, Shopping, and Facebook (which is probably there because I have Facebook container installed). In settings I can modify the container tabs available. (And turn the feature on or off, but it’s already on because of Facebook container.)
Is that what that is? It looks a lot like the example you linked. Firefox 123.0, but it’s been there for quite a while.
Not really, though the functionalities are adjacent and I could see how one would make that mistake. I do indeed use container tabs, and they’re a killer feature.
Tab groups are merely organizational, allowing you to reference, store, close, and save groups of tabs en masse; by contrast, container tabs don’t do ANY organization at all; you can’t group them all together, move them all to a new window as one, bookmark them all, close them all, etc.
Interesting, thanks. Seems like the containers could be expanded into the tab group functionality without too much trouble.
True, and I would love the ability to link them, but I think having them linked by default would be confusing to users who don’t need containerization. “Wait, I already logged in to that!”
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Does anyone have any experience with Firefox on Android?
It runs great now. Most importantly, it supports extensions like ublock.
Firefox on Android is fine, except they insist upon disabling about:config on the main branch of the browser for some damn stupid reason. You have to use a nightly or beta build to be trusted with your own config that much.
Personally, I ended up switching to the Fennec fork over this.
with ublock origin plugin, it’s amazing
Using use daily. Only problem I sometimes have is the inability to upload images, so I just use duckduckgo’s browser
For me it is great on a smartphone but pretty underwhelming on my android tablet. It doesn’t scale websites properly on the larger screen and doesn’t support a tab list on top anymore (like Firefox on desktops).
Works mostly great. Addons like uBlock Origin and Super Agent (auto reject all cookies) is great for your mobile experience.
I noticed Youtube site sometimes has weird framerates. But since Google removed premium lite subscription, I refuse to use the Youtube app and just view with uBlock in browser, even with the framerate issues.
Yes. It used to suck, say, 10 years ago. My baseline was Youtube and Reddit (back then, okay?) Could I watch Youtube videos the same way as with Chrome or Android browser? No? Then, not ready. Did i.reddit.com open fine? No? Not ready.
Then it happened. And I switched and it has been wonderful ever since.
The only thing that I miss is the “pull down page to reload” gesture [EDIT: THANK YOU ALL! I’VE ENABLED IT - GREAT!!!].
Not sure why Firefox hasn’t implemented that yet. Patents?And also, when a video is in an iframe, it won’t respect the “block autoplay” feature. The rest is dandy.Settings > customize. Pull to refresh is there
You change my life. Thanks!
I don’t really visit reddit anymore, but still end up there sometimes because of a google search. Anyway there is an extension for Firefox Android to always show old Reddit. So you don’t have to log in or install the app.
Yup. I know all that. But I was talking about back then when Mobile Firefox simply didn’t render reddit correctly. As soon as it did, I switched.
You can enable the refresh gesture in the settings in Firefox
Thanks!
I am, sometimes there is an issue with videos in Fullscreen, where the video plays just somewhere to the top and off screen, besides that it’s fine.
I recently made the switch. Make sure to install whatever add-ons you need, turn on the “open links in apps” setting, and turn on the “pull to refresh” setting. Import your bookmarks and you can still use the Android password manager. It’s not 100% as smooth, but it’s pretty close.
The main problems I have with it now are sometimes there are still issues with loading between browser and apps. Like it might open multiple tabs trying to open an app, and it leaves the app redirect pages open in your tabs list. Additionally, sometimes (like 3% of the time) website scaling doesn’t always work, especially on older sites or those made with janky CMS’s, and I’ve also rarely had problems with some dynamic content like inline forms and graphs.
I feel like anyone on Lemmy who isnt yet using Firefox is the kind of person who isnt going switch now because an article told them they should
edit: it seems I had a stroke (not seriously) while writing this message, and have since edited it so it makes sense
10 reasons:
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Anybody else having flaky behavior with youtube videos in Firefox lately? Like, only audio resuming but video freezing after rewinding? I’m wondering if this is intentional on the part of Google.
Given Google and YouTube’s history of intentionally and maliciously disrupting other browsers that aren’t chrome, it’ll be a safe bet that it’s intentional.
So, the solution is to disable the adblocker? Not gonna happen
I use pihole. It’s external to a browser extension and performs the same without the in browser complaints about using an ad blocker.
On my pc with a couple ad blockers youtube is SLOW.
If i turn them off it runs fine.
On my android using adaway I have zero youtube lag.
So yeah. Seems pretty intentional
Yes, but I’ve had it across multiple sites that play video, so I don’t think it’s youtube.
I’ve heard this but it hasn’t happened to me.
I think youtube makes itself terrible if you don’t have premium. I have the problems you describe and others on both my desktop with FF or my chromebook with chrome.
Firefox Multiaccount Containers, the thing that can’t be beat by even the best chrome derivatives
The only reason I have chrome even installed is because I am forced to use it for chromecast every once in a while.
I use Ungoogled Chromium exclusively for YouTube, cause my graphics card csn upscale videos and convert them to HDR, but not in Firefox. The moment I get those features in Firefox, I’m done with Chrome for good.
There’s a video service my therapist uses that refuses to run in Firefox. I expect it probably could, but it’s a lot less work to just launch chrome for that one use case.
Install a user agent switcher. There are several for Firefox and you can spoof chrome.
Welllll I also have the other use case of my partner refuses to switch, so she wants chrome on the computer too.
Use different user accounts. Do you own thing. You can have both installed.
I do have both installed, but it’s easier to use chrome for the one use case I have since it’s going to be installed anyway for her
Edit: oh you mean a user agent switcher too… Well, that seems like work 😛
I’m saying that you log in as “jojo” to the computer and another account is called “jojo’s gf”. You can do whatever you want in each and won’t bother the other. Computers are designed for muiltiuser use.
It doesn’t bother either of us to be using the same login on the computer. And it doesn’t really bother her that firefix is installed nor me that chrome is.
And since chrome is sitting right there, it’s the easiest way to use my therapist’s video service.
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I love Firefox. Been enjoying DDG browser on iOS.
using chrome in 2024
Why not Brave? I mean… Firefox is fine, just, some of the extensions I need for example are not available on it.
Even Brave uses Chromium as a launching point before all of its customizations.
This in turn gives Google control over web standards because if they choose not to support something or if they implement it in a particular way they effectively govern it’s adoption because of their near universal market share.
I’m sure I missed a lot of nuance but this is my best take at explaining it.
That is a good point!
