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I'd like to use Firefox. I've tried it out several times the last year. It's okay. Unfortunately, I always end up going back to Safari. Despite the performance improvements, Safari still feels like a faster, smoother browser.

Firefox is still pretty ugly, too. On macOS, it feels chunkier and less natively integrated.

Safari's "omnibar" is superior to Firefox's. Safari actually suggests web sites, which I use all the time. Wikipedia is a major one. Start typing "Richard Fey", for example, and the first hit will be the Wikipedia page for Richard Feynman, complete with a short summary and photo. Firefox forces me through a Google search.

I also tried out Firefox on iOS some time ago, and it wasn't as nice as Safari. For there to be a point to this, I'd need the same browser in both places, with perfect syncing of bookmarks, cookies, tabs, etc., just like Safari.

Lastly, migrating is a pain. There's apparently no way to import my current Safari session (I have probably 60-70 tabs) or history (I keep everything I visit, going back years), which means I'd lose stuff by migrating and would have to migrate tabs over incrementally. Hard to try out a browser in any significant way this way.
But you're supposed to ride them in the roads in most cities.
Relevant: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_dissonance, https://www.simplypsychology.org/cognitive-dissonance.html

Similarly: if you are getting upset in such a fashion, it can help to take a literal step back from the situation (or idea) causing it—go for a short walk. From a long-term perspective, getting upset over one small thing is not worth the mental anguish and lost time.
Really? I'm on Linux and I saw immediate changes once Quantum hit. It runs better for me on Ubuntu{16,18} and Arch. I had some glitches at the beginning, but not anymore.

The only glitch I have now is that I can't use send tabs to push a tab to my phone (but the reverse works and it is fine to any other computer). So that's not that big of an issue.
Yeah, I resisted the upgrade to FF Quantum for a while, but ultimately made the move and it's worked out well. The biggest things I needed were a WebExtension version of Tree Style Tabs, plus the restyling options from https://github.com/Aris-t2/CustomCSSforFx .
> Firefox was already 'good enough' long before

Only if you as "good enough" define "with Javascript even slower than IE." I've personally never used Chrome, because since even the first days it already had more "protected" installation than some malware, and that never made me confident in their intentions (and I've never liked Chrome UI) but Firefox has always had performance problems. As Chrome appeared it had extremely fast JS, and only then others "woke up."
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And yet, it is one of the only usable browser for most users thanks to the Tree Style Tabs extension. I still don't understand how people can browse the web with Chrome :|
Firefox is super fast and most importantly, isn't supported by a company who has a vested interest in tracking you.

Unfortunate to see these results.
The taxes are a drop in the bucket compared to just the road costs alone (ignoring the other societal downsides).
> Let's leave the "get off my lawn" comments off HN.

I like the Bird idea, but why should people who find them a nuisance not be able to voice their opinions here? They are literally being thrown on people's lawns. I think those companies have some responsibility to develop spaced waypoints with the city which act as hubs for birds. Private businesses should be allowed to register their space as a hub for a payment by the Bird company.

The different users would be: Hub owners (colleges, cities, private homes, businesses), riders, chargers. Hub owners and chargers would get paid to host hubs and charge birds, respectively. The riders would pay for use between hubs.
Except, there are actually replicated studies related to sex/attraction.
> other browsers keep overhauling their systems and deprecating old software which discourages extension developers

Note that this is why Firefox underwent the extensionpocalypse last year; the prior extensions model made it impossible not to regularly break the ecosystem. The next bit about "why code for browser X?" is also why they based their new APIs on Chrome's, to make it easy for existing Chrome extensions to support both browsers.
I'm not sure I understand, there is no side-tab plugin like Tree Style Tab plugin on Chrome. How do you handle more than 10 tabs?
> 1. The biggest thing keeping me tied to Chrome over any other browser is the extension support. Extensions are second class citizens in any other browser.

You say this, but on mobile, the only major browser that supports extensions is Firefox. Not Chrome. Not Safari.
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I share in your pain. This world is openly cruel to men that don't follow gender norms, and we often have to wear uncomfortable masks to keep ourselves safe from all the jerks out there. It is exhausting to wear those masks all day, and sometimes we just can't take it anymore and have to withdraw from everyone.

But there are also lots of people out there that know better than to mistreat someone for their gender expression. There are people out there that even find it worth celebrating. If you there is a community of nonbinary/gender nonconforming/genderqueer organizers near you, that can be a good place to start looking. And maybe someday, with enough help from your community and possibly therapy, you can learn to celebrate yourself for how you express yourself too. You are worthy of it.
Winner winner chicken dinner. We only sent controller input over the wire for network play.
I've always been impressed with Quora's engineering team. Kinda curious what slipped passed them.
I switched from Firefox to Chrome around 2009. I switched back to Firefox this year with the release of Quantum. Its performance has seemed fine to me even on my late 2012 iMac.

I think the switch back to Firefox was worth it if only for the privacy and to claw back some control from Google.
I had close to ~220 tabs open in 3 windows open on a windows machine that's not especially powerful and didn't have any performance issues. It wasn't even using that much memory...
You might like Brave more if that is important to you.
User agent switcher will get you around that. It worked when Netflix was blocking FF and hasn't failed me yet.
The concept of "software for your brain".

You choose the apps you want to use. You download them with practice by developing skill.

Common ones I use are:

- Scanning. Scan for good, bad or better, or whatever way you choose.

- Clear. Write down everything, unload.

- Other point of view.

There are unlimited ways to think. You just need to learn how to design/copy and download it to your brain.
I do something similar using https://www.spamgourmet.com/

Although many services are getting wise to many of these services and not let you sign up with their domains.
I would love to use Firefox more for dev, but until it has a first class way to disable CORS, I can't. "CORS Everywhere" is not sufficient (it alters responses, but does not actually disable CORS, which doesn't cover all needs).

Chrome I can at least disable CORS via the command line, and Safari does it best by putting it in a Developer menu that I can easily toggle.

Firefox's dev tools also seem to still be behind — I haven't seen a good way to inspect WebSocket frames, for instance.

I would really prefer to use Firefox due to Mozzila's stances on privacy, especially in contrast to Google; however, I have to use the tool that lets me actually get work done.
That's what PMs are supposed to be for.
Incorrect - universal healthcare would make this discussion even more relevant. As we're all going to be paying for his head injury rather than whoever decides to go with that particular company or insurer.
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It’d be fairly easy to designate a spot on every block for scooter/bike/etc parking. Much easier and space efficient than creating parking spaces.

Here’s an example that Santa Monica is trying: https://www.10news.com/news/santa-monica-creates-parking-spa...
That's less than proportion of the population with color blindness, yet I bet more developers test their sites for Firefox compatibility than making them usable by differently-abled people.
At least in the city I am in this seems to becoming less and less of an issue (despite there being more and more scooters) as people get used to them, and learn to properly park them.
More devs should support and use it, lest we be beholden to Chrome for the rest of time.

Why support what already broke your work once without an actual transition plan? They didn't have a full replacement ready to go when they got rid of XUL, and seemed that they didn't really care.
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Sad news. Chrome is an energy hog on the Mac compared to safari. It probably won’t be as tied to the OS APIs as Edge was.
Also in love with mobile Firefox. Definitely give it a try folks (with ad blocking)
I was so delighted by this piece and then I got to the byline - James Somers strikes again!

You might know his writing from “You’re Probably Using the Wrong Dictionary” or his amazing article about New York’s subway system told through the lens of the countdown clock: http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/11/why-do...

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Its a tradeoff right? Are making smart phone apps that provide entertainment but get people more glued to their screens part of making the world worse?

Does driving a car make the world worse, or eating beef, or producing human waste, or purchasing goods make by sweatshop workers, or eating vegetables picked by underpaid illegal immigrants, making city rent more expensive by increasing demand with your high paying salary, or taking a spot in line at the dmv, or profiting from all of your unearned privilege (whether that is because you are a man, white, tall, come from 2 parent home, good health, software job, etc.) while others with less unfortunate circumstances are become more poor relative to yourself (thus producing more inequality). I'm sorry but there are a very high number of people who would literally kill another human for that much money in one year.

That much money at that age is incredibly difficult to find, and wondering why a 27yr old person should turn that down in favor of some other 50k a year startup or a well establish, neutral, software company at 80k a year is a little strange.

If someone paid me 100k a year on the condition that I make the world a worse place, I'd do it by just continuing to exist, or I could just drop a candy wrapper on the ground once a day.
I wonder if the Sentinelese find it immoral?
But technical merits don't keep a company in business. Market dominance does.
With more than 10 windows.
This has been in the works for a while! A number of Microsoft employees have been making contributions to Chromium too. I hope to see Chromium's performance and battery impact on Windows to improve with this decision which is great for those using the OS.

It sounds like Microsoft really just wants a platform to route people into using Bing and service ads on the new tab page, which they're more than capable of doing on a reskin for Chromium. From a cost standpoint it makes sense to use the existing tools available.

For developers, it's one less platform to target.
I really want to use Safari, but for me the deal breaker is the fact that Safari doesn't seem to block pop-ups properly.

Yes, they've changed it in the latest version. I have Block and Notify option selected in Privacy tab. But many popups still go through -- sometimes they open in a new tab, sometimes in a new window.

Is there a way to fix that?

Also, is there a Tree Style Tab alternative for Safari?
No, the ground point is most often registered in either a continental or regional plate datum.
I just deleted Chrome, and switched to Brave as my full-time personal browser: faster, more secure, and based on Chromium so full extension support[1].

I still use and support Firefox for development purposes, and am wedded to containers, but apart from that it's Brave all the way (especially on mobile, which has been my default browser for over a year now).

[1] Excluding anything that bakes in Google spyware, and I believe they'll do a bit more curating of extensions from a security perspective.
Dockless bike share is a thing. They had them all over the East SF bay area for a while but a contract with the existing docked bikes got rid of them in most of the areas. I think they still have them in SF. As you guessed, many people hate them but honestly, parked cars take 100x the space, just allocate some parking spaces to bikes, problem solved.
it’s true. i’ve had some issues but they’re minor enough to fix yourself if you’re handy.

loose handle bars.
Not OP, but I currently have around 80 tabs open spread/organized over 6 different windows (and two different Chrome profiles). And a bunch more "snoozing" with OneTab.
I guess I am comparing them more to arduino / adafruit replacements, rather than more direct manufacturer prices. I have no experience with Nucleo boards but many other boards I tried out just hadn’t no community or body of libraries to draw from, whereas the teensy is pretty popular in the makers community. In my case I happened to need to drive 1,000’s of LEDs in real-time for an art piece and not only is there good software support, there is even dedicated hardware made for the teensy for this in the Octo Ws2812 board. I was so impressed with the quality and the size that I generally just use a teensy LC even when a $3 trinket would probably work. YMMV
But none of the permissiveness that old Tumblr had. I believe the new TOS for tumblr are still more liberal than the ones for current Instagram.
Most people I know don't know how to, or couldn't be bothered to, change a bicycle tire. You have to also bring around a spare tire, a portable air pump, etc... or face the prospect of walking your bike somewhere.

Perhaps we should differentiate here between bike ownership and these bike/scooter share approaches. Scooters also have flat tires.

Compare ownership to a shared scooter or bike service, where these costs are in effect shared amongst everyone. If your scooter breaks down, you can leave it and seek other forms of transportation.
> And yet, it is one of the only usable browser for most users thanks to the Tree Style Tabs extension.

You mean, it's the only usable browser for users like you. I assure you, most users don't use this and don't really care for it.
There are a few niche plugins I use for specific sites to enhance usability that I definitely don't expect to be ported to Firefox, but even the ones that are take an understandable backseat in terms of developer priority.

For example, for more than 10 years I've been using Chrome extensions that allow you to hover over image links to view them without clicking. There are dozens of these extensions in almost any browser, but they require constant updating to keep up with 1) new image/video hosts and 2) changes to existing image/video hosts.

For me, these extensions are an essential part of the browsing experience of many websites. I've found that the same extensions by the same developers often lag behind 6+ months on Firefox vs. Chrome which makes them really useless when gfycat, streamable, imgur, etc. all stop working.
I am working on the SEAL team and agree that these are reasonable concerns and questions. With open-sourcing we are hoping to build more trust in our implementation of this admittedly complicated technology. In addition to our internal code reviews at Microsoft, we are hoping to engage with the broader OSS and crypto researcher community in identifying and address any issues and concerns that are brought to our attention.

Note also that the theory of homomorphic encryption has been developed in the open scientific community; all schemes and security estimates are backed up by published papers, and multiple other publicly available implementations. SEAL itself has been publicly available since 2015, although under a non-commercial license. In 2017 Microsoft helped launch the HomomorphicEncryption.org consortium for standardizing homomorphic encryption (see http://HomomorphicEncryption.org). Today, this group consists of more than 300 scientists from around the world, including partners and participants from industry (Microsoft, IBM, Duality Technologies, Intel, Google, multiple start-ups), top researchers from universities (MIT, Seoul National University, EPFL, ...), and government (e.g. NIST).
Hollywood isn't the only union in the world, and from what I can tell, it's unique in its manner of operation. Is there any other trade union which has "cards" like that?
To be fair, FF shot themselves in the foot. They didn't keep pace with Chrome. I use FF and think it is better NOW, but that wasn't always the case. I think that's where they lost their market share. I'm glad they put the work into Quantum. But it is going to be hard to regain that market share.
I miss the old XUL extensions, way better tab extensions and stuff like DownThemAll was amazing.

Modernly Firefox can't be customized much more than chrome - extreme hacks are needed: https://github.com/piroor/treestyletab/wiki/Code-snippets-fo...
Why is it that not more people use Safari?

On a MacBook Pro it is not only faster but your battery life lasts noticeable longer.

Not to mention the Safari engineers' stand on privacy as compared to Google Chrome...
Barely a month back in the facebook data breach thread in HN, I was downvoted and my comment removed when I said that it has become a fashion for the top 500 web/e-com companies to come one day and announce data breach and walk away. I said there that it all looks to me as part of a conspiracy theory where they hide behind a breach to sell data/ buy data en masse for marketing purposes.
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> User agent switcher will get you around that

I wonder how many FF users roll with a user agent that identifies as chrome or some other browser, and how much (if even significantly) it affects surveys like the one in this article.
> In more developed areas, there are three options. Fast (main road for cars), medium (bike lane) and slow (sidewalks). I'd imagine birds would ride in the medium and slow lanes.

And to be clear 'bike lane' != road shoulder with a bike painted on it. A bike lane should have at least some amount of separation from the road in the same way that sidewalks are separated.

I'm hopeful that the popularity of scooters speeds up the adoption of medium speed lanes.
My take on Quora and business like them:

They are hiring people based on leet code questions and school prestige and not based on real technical knowledge about systems. Their business people are top school MBA grads with no security domain expertise. They then proceed to build massive data collection programs using open source tooling that non of them fully understand. Their business model depends on that data and monetizing it in various ways. An so the complexity of their application goes through the roof with regards to user data. Their user facing web apps are the tip of the iceberg for a massive surveillance scheme.
I'm not sure what the up or downsides would be, but I personally just have all mail sent to *@mydomain.tld forwarded to a single email address. This way I can give each service a unique email address, while preserving the ability to divine whether a particular address has been lost or stolen, by looking at the sent to field.

Well, there's the obvious comfort of having all your mail in one place -- and all the obvious disadvantages that entails, I suppose.
What makes you think that the technical ability to do something confers either the legal or moral right to do that? Just because it's technically possible for you to trick me into thinking you're Google does not mean it's ok for you to do that. You tricked me into giving you something I thought I was giving to someone else; that doesn't mean you have permission to do this, that just means you tricked me. Neither legality nor socially-accepted morality recognizes that successfully tricking someone confers the right to the results of the trickery. In fact, both are pretty explicit about how this is wrong.
I think from the very beginning it was understood they were producing more than one level of output together.
We just shipped a chrome extension for Polar...

I did a big analysis of the distribution of extensions on Firefox vs Chrome.

You could expect Firefox to be maybe 1/3rd that of Chrome.

Nope... it's 1/40th.... So 40x more people use the same extension on Chrome vs Firefox.

I'm not sure why this is... it might be that Chrome users adopt extensions more readily than Firefox users?

I think there's a lesson here on long term user growth but it's somewhat complicated.

Link to our chrome extension btw.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/save-to-polar/jkfd...
I'm a heavy Firefox+addon user, but I just don't use phone browser enough to even bother using addons. (And Firefox for Android is pretty bad otherwise, unfortunately.)
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The person who's made the sci-hub is absolutely untolerable, sartre-like not-self-aware communist. But what she does is amazing. I never thought a commissar would teach me some tolerance.

(the wind bloweth where it listeth)
I'm pretty sure he meant web devs, not plugin devs.
Yeah, I'd say it performs better than Chrome at load times and extreme levels of tabs generally speaking.
So glad to hear they were following the best practices from the previous millennium.