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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by I_Miss_Daniel@kbin.social to c/firefox@lemmy.ml

Finally migrated back to Firefox today after a multi year user of Chrome.

What pushed me over the edge? Most of my app icons (keep, pulse, calender, whatsapp) stopped opening in their own windows again.

I had to install the PWA extension in Firefox to get that working again, and it's going to be a slight hassle having to copy and paste URLs from all those windows, but I'm tired of fixing the task bar icons.

Could've gone to Edge since it would work out of the box, but I like Firefox. (except for no native PWA support.)

Edit: found I can right click links in the PWA instances and use the send to other device option to open them in my main Firefox window.

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[-] deersindal@lemmy.world 52 points 1 year ago

The lack of any ad blockers on mobile chrome is what personally made me switch.

Trying to read basically any news article on your phone without an ad blocker is a nearly impossible task these days.

[-] happyhippo@feddit.it 6 points 1 year ago

The lack of any ad blockers on mobile chrome is ~~what personally made me switch~~ why I'll never switch, unless I have a gun pointed at my head.

[-] oce@jlai.lu 3 points 1 year ago

Are you certain risking death isn't preferable? I heard Firefox also teaches you krav maga if needed.

[-] I_Miss_Daniel@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

@deersindal I have a paid lifetime subscription to Adguard, so ads aren't a thing on my phone at all, for pretty much any app.

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[-] danc4498@lemmy.world 42 points 1 year ago

I switched back to Firefox about a week ago too. Mostly because Lemmy is a whore for it.

[-] doppelgangmember@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

what a fox ;)

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[-] soniquest@lemmy.studio 38 points 1 year ago

Oh man time for my little rant. Long time Firefox supporter and still use it on desktop, but I had to uninstall on Android. It reloads the tab every time I switch out and back to it. It just kills me. Especially since I pay for Kagi search, and it's nearly doubling my search count by reloadng all the damn time. So now I'm using Privacy Browser on Android, and it's great, bit I'd rather be on Firefox. There are threads asking for a fix from years ago and it's still a problem

[-] boyi@lemmy.sdf.org 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I didn't know that Firefox for android will reload tab. That's why my voyager app keep reloading some images.

Anyway, for the time being, my immediate solution is to install 'Stop Auto Reload' addon (possible by using Firefox nightly custom add on collection). Still early to tell but so far it doesn't reload the images.

[-] soniquest@lemmy.studio 6 points 1 year ago

Thanks for the tip! I might give that a go

[-] verdigris@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago

Definitely doesn't happen for me, that's annoying.

[-] PrettyFlyForAFatGuy@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago

i've been having issues with autofilling credentials from saved passwords on firefox android

[-] garam@lemmy.my.id 4 points 1 year ago

This is well known problem, you need to restart the phone itself or kill the services.. I don't know why they haven't fix this yet for such long time

[-] JigglySackles@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Does Firefox focus face the same issue?

[-] sgtlighttree@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Yeah, I'm still putting up with Firefox here—it affected both my devices, a Nokia 7 plus with stock Android and a MIUI device with all the RAM/battery optimizations turned off for the app. I think at this point its entirely a Firefox issue.

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[-] thrash_collector@sopuli.xyz 31 points 1 year ago

Good. Let's all enjoy Firefox while we can, before WEI becomes mandatory for all top 500 web sites.

[-] IceMan@lemmy.one 26 points 1 year ago

Good decision! :) Yay for one more user!

[-] modulus@lemmy.ml 18 points 1 year ago

Welcome back!

There were points at which Firefox was difficult to stick with, especially after the extension apocalypse, but I think it's evolving pretty well at this point.

[-] DefinitelyNotBirds@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

I migrated to Firefox last week both pc and mobile. The android version is not as fast as other chromium based browsers but the ability to install any add-on is a must for me, browsing the web without my essential extensions is impossible for me.

I previously used kiwi browser that supports extensions but i found they were buggy sometimes, specially static filters in ublock origin.

My essential add-ons

[-] LambLeeg@lemm.ee 11 points 1 year ago

uBO has all you need, ClearURLs is not needed. Use these filter lists instead:

  1. ➗ Actually Legitimate URL Shortener Tool
  2. ClearURLs for uBo (unofficial)

Also, Badger does the same as uBO, therefore you don't need it. The same thing goes for cookies. Use default Annoyances lists (Adguard + EasyList) and add that:

  1. I don't care about cookies
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[-] zer0@thelemmy.club 11 points 1 year ago

What should have pushed you over the edge is that one is open source and the other isn't. You do not control what Chrome does

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[-] oobleck@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 year ago

I switched back to Firefox about a year ago after wandering the wastes of Chromium land. I love it!

I still use Ungoogled Chromium for work with the same extensions that i use in Firefox.

I know firefox has profiles, but firewalling work from personal stuff in Firefox is tedious, whereas i can use Velja (or similar) to target URL patterns to particular browsers.

[-] tekila@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

I'm personally using Firefox multi-account containers. It's way better than switching to profiles.

I have for example one container type for work and for specific URL i even made it so they are always opened in this containers. It's really useful as cookies are separated.

I'm coupling it with Simple Tab Groups where I can group tabs together based on criterias (For example all tabs running in my "work" container). At the beginning of my work day I switch to my "work" group and all my tabs on my window are work related and at the end I switch back to my "personal" group with my usual tabs.

It's a bit more work but lets me be completely chromium free :)

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[-] cestvrai@lemm.ee 9 points 1 year ago

I ditched Gmail and chrome last year after a long ride. Feels great to be back.

[-] trevor@lemmy.az.social 3 points 1 year ago

What did you switch to from gmail?

[-] cestvrai@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago

Migrated my own domain email to Proton.

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[-] GuStJaR@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

I did the same a while back. Youtube with ublock origin is awesome!

[-] cheezoid2@startrek.website 3 points 1 year ago

Genuinely curious, and I intend to switch back in the near future, but I’ve also been using chrome for years now with uBlock and YouTube has remained ad-less to this day. Has something changed recently?

[-] igorlogius@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

welcome back.

it’s going to be a slight hassle having to copy and paste URLs from all those windows,

You might find something on the Chrome addon store that allows you copy tabs urls, similar, but not quite as good as
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/copy-tabs/ and you can import/open them with https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/open-tabs-from-clipboard/

Hope it helps.

[-] Blaze@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 year ago

Welcome back!

[-] rzlatic@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

welcome back. not all but most of us had moment in time when something was trigger to return back to firefox, making it the new browsing-home and enjoying it since.

[-] Thisisforfun@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Which extension?

Edge did the same shit tome a few times btw. It's chrome with a different paint job.

[-] FeelzGoodMan420@eviltoast.org 4 points 1 year ago

Am I dumb or does chrome (both desktop and mobile) lack a simple way to clear all data on close? Like what the actual fuck? Both firefox and edge have an easy to find checkbox to do this...but not chrome?

[-] kd45@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

Could this possibly be a solution to your shortcuts not opening in a new window? https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1287367

[-] anonymoose@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago

I suspect I'll be ditching Opera on desktop/Android for FF as soon as the manifest V3 changes make it to opera and kill ad blocking. Shouldn't be long now.

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[-] FreddyNO@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Samesame a month back!

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