BuxtonWater ( @buxtonwater@lemmy.ml ) 46•1 year agoFirefox supremacy! Keep the non-chromiuim branch alive forevermore, no centralization please.
bdonvr ( @bdonvr@thelemmy.club ) 2•1 year agonon-chromium branch
There’s a chromium branch‽
BuxtonWater ( @buxtonwater@lemmy.ml ) English2•1 year agoThat’s just my werid phrasing, I mean the non-chromium branch that is Firefox and its backend.
CIWS-30 ( @CIWS-30@kbin.social ) 29•1 year agoThis is why I use Firefox. I honestly don’t think that a browser engine monopoly is good for the world. Single point of failure for everyone with no alternatives is very bad if something nasty happens.
I think the creators of WINE said something similar about one of their reasons for creating WINE. Wish more browsers would use Gecko.
_I_ ( @_I_@kbin.social ) 6•1 year agoI actually use Edge as a daily, but I also use Firefox because I want to support them. Unfortunately, Edge and Chrome are superior to Firefox in performance. Edge especially is really really great at resource management, and it doesn’t matter if I have 1 or 700 tabs and windows open. It’ll manage it without any issues. Firefox however, won’t. Sure, it’s rich in features and it’s very very flexible, but it’s not as stable or fast as the former.
Still love Firefox, though!
Facni ( @Facni@kbin.social ) 1•1 year agoWell if you use Firefox Nightly with ad-blockers and the latest version of Windows Defender the performance will be comparable to edge and chrome, the only thing is that Firefox uses the RAM that you are not using and that means if you have something open it will run slower.
HubertManne ( @HubertManne@kbin.social ) 1•1 year agocpu and memory on my firefox and edge are about equivalent but I have some browser add ons for managing lots of tabs. I have way more on firefox because its my main browser but I have a fair amount on edge which I use like scratchpad.
Smk ( @Smk@lemmy.ca ) 29•1 year agoI still remember version 2 of Firefox. It was an awesome feeling to install. Even today, just using Firefox still feels like I’m doing to right thing.
smartwater0897 ( @smartwater0897@lemmy.ml ) 14•1 year agoI think there is nothing like it. It’s not perfect but it’s damn good still.
iuseit ( @iuseit@iusearchlinux.fyi ) 24•1 year agoI love Firefox
isotope ( @isotope@lemm.ee ) 19•1 year agoMore people should be aware of Nyxt as I believe it’s one of the greatest efforts towards a customizable browser out there. It aims at being renderer-agnostic, but it currently only supports Webkit and there are plans to support Blink via Electron. I built some extensions for it in Common Lisp and I can say the ecosystem is much more fun and open than standard browsers.
fellow_nerd ( @fellow_nerd@lemmy.ml ) 1•1 year agoDo you know of any vi extensions or configs I can look at for Nyxt. The OOB experience isn’t great, but I see the potential. EDIT: Also tree tabs if possible
isotope ( @isotope@lemm.ee ) 2•1 year agovi
support is built into the browser, you only need to enablevi-mode
in yourdefault-modes
. There is no concept of tree tabs, you manipulate tabs as “buffers” that you can switch to via fuzzy search, which IMO is far more efficient. You can take a look at one of the core maintainers’ config. Alternatively, I’ve recently added a Guix home service and feature into rde for those that want a more batteries-included config, which you can check how I use in my dotfiles fellow_nerd ( @fellow_nerd@lemmy.ml ) 1•1 year agoThanks. I’m not so much interested in tree tabs for switching around, but to bulk close tabs based on origin. Basically to bulk delete tabs based on how they were created. But it seems flexible enough.
supermurs ( @supermurs@suppo.fi ) English18•1 year agoFirefox 🥰
tarneo ( @tarneo@lemmy.ml ) 16•1 year agoLibrewolf, icecat, qutebrowser, iceraven, surf… are not chromium-based.
ionaru ( @ionaru@feddit.nl ) 13•1 year agoUnpopular opinion, brace yourselves.
As a web developer, I would love to root for Firefox but they’ve made some really odd decisions regarding the implementation of web standards (which are published on the Mozilla MDN site, oddly enough), async/defer script loading order for example. Firefox is also often multiple years late with implementing new tech, being surpassed by Chromium and even Safari most of the time.
While I love the non-profit style of Mozilla and think competition in the browser space is a good thing. The reality is just that their browser lags behind the other two. Firefox is a large part of the reason polyfills are still used in this world of evergreen browsers, and requires multi-browser testing/tweaking even though I exclusively follow the standards written on the MDN website…
CrateDane ( @CrateDane@feddit.dk ) 22•1 year agoFirefox is behind in some areas, but ahead in others - eg. privacy/tracking.
tartar ( @tartarsauce@lemmy.fmhy.ml ) 16•1 year agoexactly, and that’s what matters more than anything else. modern websites are insanely bloated anyway; i care more about blocking the 50MB of ads, trackers, third-party cookies and other garbage every site shoves down your throat, than shiny new stuff that arguably is often part of that overengineered bloat.
look at this. it’s fucking beautiful. as far as i’m concerned, websites like these put the modern web and web developers to shame.
hamburglar26 ( @hamburglar26@wilbo.tech ) 2•1 year agoTo this day I love my SP, what a great little device.
tartar ( @tartarsauce@lemmy.fmhy.ml ) 1•1 year agoretro nintendo consoles really are neat things. i wasn’t at the right time (or even in the right country) to physically own a GBA or DS, but through emulators and piracy the DS was my “childhood console” nonetheless.
i’ve tried many times to get into programming/romhacking for these consoles, but i just don’t have the skills, or the consistent motivation required to hone them. hoping that linking that site (which actually has a great tutorial for ARM assembly in general) might randomly get some interested people into GBA programming ;)
p.s. what color/edition was your sp?
hamburglar26 ( @hamburglar26@wilbo.tech ) 1•1 year agoIt is just plain silver, nothing fancy. I still have it and use it regularly.
locness3 ( @locness3@discuss.tchncs.de ) 4•1 year agoSo not the things that benefit website owners
tartar ( @tartarsauce@lemmy.fmhy.ml ) 12•1 year agoYeah. Instead, the things that benefit users
tvbusy ( @tvbusy@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 21•1 year agoI see it the other way around. I have a feeling that FireFox follows the specs while Chromium kind of has its own plan and directly introduce new behavior without much care for standards.
Since Chromium based browsers have the majority of the market share, you have the feeling that FireFox is awkward/lag behind. Now look back at Opera when they still have their own engine and you will see that while they try to introduce new behaviors just like Chromium, their limited market share means that people don’t feel the need to make use of these “innovations”.
TowardsTheFuture ( @TowardsTheFuture@vlemmy.net ) 3•1 year agoI miss old opera.
YAMAPIKARIYA ( @yamapikariya@lemmyfi.com ) 10•1 year agoI love when the meme is used correctly.
i literally saw it on discord a few seconds ago lol
§ɦṛɛɗɗịɛ ßịⱺ𝔩ⱺɠịᵴŧ ( @shreddy_scientist@lemmy.ml ) 8•1 year agoLadybird should add another option at least, I’m curious to see it in action.
Antik ( @Antik@lemmy.ml ) 6•1 year agoI don’t know why, but even on my machine which gets 40-60 FPS in FFXIV while simultaneously encoding a movie, Firefox was always slower than chromium browsers.
I truly don’t understand it.
InFerNo ( @InFerNo@lemmy.ml ) 22•1 year agoIt’s web builders deliberately building their sites and webapps for chromium based browsers only, because it has over 80% market share. They only test on firefox rudimentally. The experience is subpar and people use chromium instead because of it, cementing chromium as the most used browser. Some site builders do this because they don’t have the time to extensively test a browser with low market share, others, like Google, do it deliberately.
Contend6248 ( @Contend6248@feddit.de ) 1•1 year agoI mean everybody is free to block them trash scripts from these developers with uMatrix or NoScript.
BitsOfBeard ( @BitsOfBeard@vlemmy.net ) 1•1 year agoI just wish I didn’t have to! I’m always hunting through uMatrix to find the filter that broke the website I need.
InFerNo ( @InFerNo@lemmy.ml ) 1•1 year agoUMatrix is no longer under development, right? uBlock has that functionality built in iirc. It came from the same dev, unless I’m confusing them with something else.
BitsOfBeard ( @BitsOfBeard@vlemmy.net ) 1•1 year agoI’ve been using both, side by side. Had no clue I could block scripts with uBlock. I thought it just handled ads.
T (they/she) ( @Templa@beehaw.org ) 1•1 year agoAre the ad block changes from the new manifest going to be opt-in?
monobot ( @monobot@lemmy.ml ) 8•1 year agoDepends on what sites you are using, google sites are slower for me, others are faster.
Also looks like chrome is better at looking faster somehow, probably starts to render page sooner.
And of course: wgich extensions do you have in firefox and how old is your profile. Try it out with new, clean profile and than you will feel it.
Antik ( @Antik@lemmy.ml ) 5•1 year agoAnd of course: wgich extensions do you have in firefox and how old is your profile. Try it out with new, clean profile and than you will feel it.
I mean this is fair, but eventually the profile ages and I may choose to add more extensions, no? Why would a selling point be “we’re fast on a brand new install, but after a couple years and adding some extensions, we’re gonna slow down like fuck”?
monobot ( @monobot@lemmy.ml ) 1•1 year agoIt is not perfect, I know. I also know that firefox keeping history locally, sqlite database gets huge and slow and fragmented.
There are solutions, but at the end it is easiest to create new profile. They also have some success with “refreshing” profiles. https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/refresh-firefox-reset-add-ons-and-settings but it is removing some settings.
Zerush ( @Zerush@lemmy.ml ) 2•1 year agoBlink is somewhat faster than Gecko in most sites, but it use somewhat more resources, because render every tab independly. Because of this some Chromium hibernate tabs in background (Chrome itself don’t)
iAmTheTot ( @iAmTheTot@kbin.social ) 5•1 year agoPeter Parker saw more clearly when his glasses were off.
Jentu ( @Jentu@lemmy.film ) 5•1 year agoI didn’t see LibreWolf here anywhere. I’ve been going back and forth between that and Arc lately
xtapa ( @xtapa@feddit.de ) 2•1 year agoArc has been an experiment when I got a Mac for work and it really is super helpful managing information and contexts. It really helps. For my private stuff, I changed back to firefox recently. That thing was super slow but now works like a charm again.
solberg ( @solberg@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 5•1 year agoArc and Orion are the best browsers I’ve used. GNOME Web looks nice, too.
Jentu ( @Jentu@lemmy.film ) English2•1 year agoArc is real fun. I’ve been using it quite a bit lately
solberg ( @solberg@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) English2•1 year agoI believe they’ve also mentioned that they developed the browser with the possibility of swapping engines later on. Would be the best if it had WebKit instead of Chromium
Nitrousoxide ( @Nitrousoxide@lemm.ee ) English1•11 months agoGnome Web is neat but the lack of any extension support is a deal breaker.
Tim Morgan ( @timothy1200@lemmy.ml ) 5•1 year agoI really wish firefox had HDR support. That’s the only reason I haven’t fully switched
Same. I just keep Brave around for that. I hope Firefox gets get support when Linux also starts supporting HDR.
Tim Morgan ( @timothy1200@lemmy.ml ) English1•1 year agoThat will be a fantastic day for sure!