My company still demands I use Chrome/Edge at work.
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bappity@lemmy.world 9 months ago
every day I’m glad I switched to firefox
Kalkaline@programming.dev 9 months ago
jeena@jemmy.jeena.net 9 months ago
At work I honestly don’t care because I’m to 99% only using company internal websites which don’t have any ads on them anyway.
GigglyBobble@kbin.social 9 months ago
internal websites which don’t have any ads on them
I'm sure Chrome could serve you some anyway.
smileyhead@discuss.tchncs.de 9 months ago
Remember to not make it your problem :).
HootinNHollerin@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
Use a user agent spoofer like chameleon
time_lord@lemmy.world 9 months ago
So use Edge. I don’t think Microsoft is doing this bullshit.
vermyndax@lemmy.world 9 months ago
They’re doing their own version of this, not Google’s. It’s equally bad.
Zikeji@programming.dev 9 months ago
Every day a new article comes out that slowly convinces me to switch. Chrome’s profile switcher was light years ahead of Firefox last I checked, but I’m going to have to check again and see if that’s still the case and if so, what I can do to cope.
timbuck2themoon@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
Not sure of your use case but Firefox container tabs seem worlds better if you ask me.
Zikeji@programming.dev 9 months ago
I’ll have to check, a cursory look at the documentation definitely makes them seem viable. Those definitely weren’t a thing last I checked lol. As for the use case, I have a profile for job 1, 2, personal, and personal 2 (2 being a separate Google account for it’s collaborative stuff).
For the most part it should do the trick. I dislike the branding for Mozilla VPN, but I see in the screenshots I can set custom proxy settings which will be nice.
As one of my profiles has a unique set of bookmarks and unique extensions, I’d probably be able to use the containers to substitute what I’m using 3 profiles for right now, and keep a separate profile for the job with unique extensions.
CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 9 months ago
I don’t know of any other browser that has the temporary container notion that FF has.
bappity@lemmy.world 9 months ago
glad_cat@lemmy.sdf.org 9 months ago
I may be cursed but I have never experienced any slowdown with Firefox. I never noticed the appeal of Chrome, but have I only used twice in my life…
ohlaph@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Firefox felt pretty bloated for me back in 2005-2010 or so, they have greatly improved it though and I haven’t noticed a difference in performance on either Chrome or Firefox.
tim-clark@kbin.social 9 months ago
I use a macbook for work. Chrome is ridiculously buggy and sucking every bit of memory. Firefox is almost as bad. Chrome is really bad when using more than 1 tab. Firefox has rendering issues with jira and git. Chrome compelling locks up when using meet, Firefox is slightly better.
In my opinion all browsers have sucked since 2015. Slow, unresponsive, rendering issues, resource hogs. Overall the browser experience has led me to use the internet less and less. It is not the privacy, it is the basic functionality is not working consistently.
SimplePhysics@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
Damn, how old is that MacBook? I think you should ask for a hardware upgrade, because both Chromium based browsers and Firefox don’t use too much resources and run smoothly on the newer models. I can’t say that Chrome isn’t buggy, as I barely use it, but I have never encountered a Firefox bug on any of my devices.
msage@programming.dev 9 months ago
Doesn’t every browser on Apple hardware use Safari for rendering?
Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
It works really well on mobile, that’s just about all the appeal I can find. Some sites are a bit glitchy on Firefox, but it’s really rare. I keep it around for those occasions. On PC it’s just Firefox and Edge (cuz work).