Still using Firefox – but not because of its vision(blog.kulman.sk)
40 pointsby ig0r013 hours ago9 comments
  • fumblebee27 minutes ago
    I switched to Firefox after Chrome stopped supporting uBlock Origin, for all the slights I've seen on HN lately with the direction of the product I've been very happy. No regrets.
  • sorcercode5 hours ago
    Might I also suggest the Firefox addon "Container Traffic Control" - A Firefox addon I built to make it even easier to use Containers

    https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ctc/

    When you start to use Containers (feature the Author of the article talks about), you'll start to want a little more control in how the containers open especially for sites that you allow on more than one container

    Source came be found here: https://github.com/kaushikgopal/ff-container-traffic-control

  • pvdebbe12 hours ago
    I'm still using Firefox and loving it actually. Other browser engines don't support "zoom text only" anymore so my options are limited. And to my knowledge, there's nothing as good as uBlock Origin for those webkit/blink based browsers...

    Yes, Firefox constantly introduces new degradation in UX but so far they always offer opt-out mechanisms for even the most obscure things...

  • shawn_w11 hours ago
    Ublock and not being Google are Firefox's killer features for me.
    • thedanbob8 hours ago
      Same. I tried LibreWolf for a while but as TA mentioned, it required too much tuning. (It also isn't signed on macOS so installing has extra hoops.) I'm on Waterfox now and it's just about right for me.
    • rainsford4 hours ago
      I like several features of Firefox, particularly containers as the article mentions. But honestly, not being Google would be enough for me all by itself. I have my issues with Google itself, but even if Google was perfect I'd still be opposed to a large Internet content company also having monopoly control over the client side browser experience. That end-to-end control is just too tempting to abuse without some reasonable alternative that people can switch to.
  • cainxinth5 hours ago
    My lifetime browser journey on x86: Netscape → Internet Explorer → Firefox → Chrome → Firefox.

    I switched to Chrome because it’s fast. I switched away because of Manifest v3. I’ve been back on Firefox for about six months now. It’s fine and very impressive give its resources relative to the market leader, but it still lags behind in speed. It’s not even entirely their fault, as so much of the web is now optimized specifically for Chrome, but it is noticeable to me.

  • HelloUsername8 hours ago
    Does anyone know if it's natively possible yet in FF to have split tabs? So viewing two tabs horizontally next to each other in one window. I know there's an official extension, but it's not really the same https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/side-view/
    • MurizS5 hours ago
      Native since v146, about:config -> browser.tabs.splitView.enabled
    • Xerox92137 hours ago
      This sure would be nice. I almost always have two windows going, and drag tabs back and forth between them.
    • rebelwebmaster7 hours ago
      It's available for testing in Nightly builds at the moment.
  • Kim_Bruning9 hours ago
    The <Tree Style Tabs> extension is what's keeping me on Firefox atm.
    • remark53966 hours ago
      For me, it was Sidebery, too.
  • Decabytes9 hours ago
    I’m using Zen which is based on Firefox and I have been enjoying the experience
  • xeonmc12 hours ago
    Mullvad?