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I really, really don’t understand why people use Chrome, or have been using it in the past
I used it for years and just recently switched to Firefox. I was just comfortable using it, and knew how to use the dev tools. I had my extensions set up how I liked. I’m still missing a few things on Firefox but fuck chrome.
What things are you missing?
I keep people saying they’re missing things from chrome. I honestly don’t get it, if anything I’ve had more usable features since switching back to FF
If you find anything similar to the Toby extension please let me know. I haven’t been able to find anything close on Firefox.
I expect you have tried to search for it in Firefox, but have you tried sideloading it somehow?
As far as I know Firefox supports a superset of the APIs that Chrome support, so it should be a possible?
While there might not be an addon that perfectly emulates every feature of Toby on Firefox, I am fully confident you can achieve all of its features with settings, config/userchrome edits, or some of the addons that are available. Personally I use Tab Session Manager and Tab Center Reborn (heavily edited though), so you might look into those and see if they have features you like.
I had an extension called Toby that opened a new tab and had an awesome page to organize bookmarks and open tabs. I can’t remember what I’m using on Firefox right now as I’m not at the computer, but it’s probably the most popular bookmark organizer. IMO Toby is just way ahead of anything I’ve found on Firefox.
Doesn’t FF have a builtin tool for that?
I’ll have to look into it, but that would be awesome!
Chrome is the only way I’ve figured out to cast video from my pc to my TV.
Casting is the only thing I use chrome for.
AFAIK you can use Airplay on FF or some equivalent
Because it’s the most popular browser
Yeah and I think there was a time before Quantum where Firefox was drastically slower than chrome, and a lot of people switched.
I started using chrome because firefox was slower
So it’s the most popular browser because it’s the most popular browser. Got it.
The last time I tried Firefox on a touch device the pitch to zoom function was basically useless. It was nothing but an equivalent to [Ctrl] + [+]. This was some years ago, so it could be better now.
Because Firefox crashes my OS, for some odd reason.
Even firefox developer edition?
you will buy the useless crap. You will work extra hours to afford it.
I’ve noticed that the average listed salaries on Indeed have gone down about 30% in the last 2 years, which is great because prices of damn near everything have gone up at least as much.
Seriously just use Firefox for your browser and Revanced on mobile for youtube
I WON’T use FF and I DON’T use youtube. Like, at all.
why not?
Get piped
I’m just gonna be outside off this.
I hate google but can you stop posting the same shitty memes in different formats
Nice try google employee!
Pi-hole
Doesn’t really work for youtube, as some of the ads are served from the same server as the content.
uBlock Origin does away with them. PiHole is more and more outclassed by the architecture hosts like Youtube deploy anyway.
The pi hole doesn’t by itself, but adding in ublock origin is typically enough to get the job done. I basically never see you too bad outside of the sponsored sections and I guess I could use sponsor block for that
And uBlock is about to become useless for Youtube as it won’t be WEI Compliant.
Which is another reason why we don’t use Chrome and why we wholeheartedly support other video hosting initiatives : )
“Youtube requires a browser that supports Web Environment Integrity in order to provide you with the best quality in streaming content. Please upgrade to a browser supprting Web Environment Integrity. Chrome \ and Edge \ are our recommended browsers”
Or words to that effect. And it’ll likely gradually become the same for most advert funded sites.
EDIT: Actually I don’t think this will become a thing until it is hitting their bottom line. That is if enough people switch away from chromium based browsers. Just like it did for ad blockers.
These scumbag companies filled to the brim with more business degrees than ideas can go ahead and keep trying this shit, but I’m never playing ball. In fact, they’ve got me back into pirating when I had stopped for about a decade or more.
I dont use a pi hole (but am heavily considering setting one up).
Right now I use newsboat rss to “subscribe” to whoever I want. When it opens Librewolf browser, a redirect extension takes me to an invidious instance of my choosing, the NoScript extension blocks everything, but the url is all i really need.
I copy that url. I use yt-dlp to download video from invidious via my terminal emilator. Sponsorblock flags, give me captions flag, and if I’m willing to wait the extra time and give it the extra hard drive space, the best video flag. No ads, no sponsors, no JavaScript tracking me. Pure fuck marketers goodness.
worth running even if it didn’t block a single incoming ad. the amount of shit that phones home is truly absurd.
