Well guys, I'm back to using Firefox again. I stopped for a long time and jumped ship to Chrome because Firefox was getting slow, wasn't multiprocess or broke addon compatibility, wasn't reliably multiplatform, etc. I just swapped back to Firefox the other day now that Quantum is out/stable. It looks like they've improved a lot. It's fast and doesn't suck up huge amounts of my memory (Chrome is fast but shits all over my RAM), and while multi-process and other updates broke addon compatibility they moved to WebExtension standards so the extensions I used on Chrome work here too, and the mobile app actually works well now. On top of that, it supports WebVR for devices besides Android Daydream/Cardboard and it isn't run by an advertising company so I think I might stick with Firefox again.
Has anyone else jumped back and forth between browsers? What do you guys think?
I used to use the smaller browsers but cross-platform syncing has become a borderline necessity for me, I can't imagine giving it up. It's really nice to be able to start an article on the bus and finish it at home on my desktop.
Christian Bailey
I hope you mean GNU IceCat
Henry Smith
nigga it's the same thing as calling it just Firefox instead of Mozilla Firefox
Grayson Wood
why do people only try the two biggest and not their more secure and tailored forks?
Jeremiah Robinson
>Firefox updates to Quantum >new ABP deletes all my custom filters, gets rid of Open Blockable Items menu >turning it off for a site adds it to whitelist
i don't want to be stuck with an outdated browser. is there an addon that lets me view a list of all elements in a page, sort them by type and open them in a new tab individually, just like ABP's Open Blockable Items menu?
Jeremiah Kelly
Why aren't you using uBlock Origin?
Jacob Evans
Also on waterfox on win10 pc. Brave on Android mobile.
Aiden Davis
i used both, because ABP gave me Blockable Items menu and i had all my custom filters there, uBlock allowed me to block elements by right clicking them. the logger in uBlock isn't quite the same as Blockable Items list, so i'm looking for an alternative that would provide the same functionality.
Robert Diaz
I was on FF for 5 years. And when this quantum fucked extensions, I'm on Chrome. It werks just fine.
Kevin Jenkins
does Chromium not have Flash built in? please tell me it doesn't....
Christopher Collins
>And when this quantum fucked extensions, I'm on Chrome. Why?
Jordan Harris
>t. ESR user Are these these the quantum aternatives: >vimperator Vim Vixen >DownloadThemAll! you are fucked, hang yourself
Owen King
Firefox doesn't. Go download it.
Ethan Miller
Icecat until Netrunner is finished.
Gabriel Peterson
what do you think i'm using? Edge?
Thomas Davis
I am gonna stop using Firefox as my main browser to give Brave a try, lets see how this goes.
Anthony Wood
I've been using Firefox Quantum for a while, but it's gotten a bit frustrating when you can't select and manage multiple tabs at once Chrome-style. The extension that allowed managing multiple tabs had features that was incompatible with WebExtensons, meaning there is now no way to select multiple tabs to drag to a new monitor or to close all other tabs but those selected like Chrome can.
Josiah Jenkins
>It's fast and doesn't suck up huge amounts of my memory Explain why when I have more than 100 tabs open my Firefox uses 6+ GB of RAM? Before version 52 or so it would only use about 3.
