Board 8 > making the jump from chrome to firefox

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phone and pc

how do i make this move as painless as possible

what do i need to install separately

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As someone who used to use only Firefox, Chrome is so much better these days it's laughable

Firefox is so much slower than Chrome now that you'll notice it immediately and want to switch right back.
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Meow1000 posted...

As someone who used to use only Firefox, Chrome is so much better these days it's laughable

Firefox is so much slower than Chrome now that you'll notice it immediately and want to switch right back.

that was why i switched years back but i thought ff was a lot better now

and also more private

posted using my Google Pixel 3

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https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/switching-chrome-firefox should be up to date and cover importing most of your data on desktop, but I don't think there's any clean way to do it on mobile. Other than that, it's mostly a matter of finding your extensions on addons.mozilla.org and installing them, I think.

Note that as long as you're not on iOS, you can install extensions on mobile firefox too. Like, say, an adblocker.

Also my experience is that Firefox generally performs comparable to Chrome in most cases (Both in terms of speed and CPU/RAM usage), and performs better if you have a ton of tabs <_<

Use Waterfox

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Reg posted...

performs better if you have a ton of tabs <_<

oh interesting, IIRC years back this is what prompted my switch to Chrome
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I use Firefox for PC and Chrome for Mobile.

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use opera

iiicon posted...

Reg posted...

performs better if you have a ton of tabs <_<

oh interesting, IIRC years back this is what prompted my switch to Chrome

Yeah, Mozilla's dev team has worked super hard over the past couple years to improve performance, and it's been pretty noticable. Most recently, either the current version or the next one (can't remember which) has some long-awaited fixes for power consumption and CPU usage on Mac specifically.

Going hard on the anti-tracking/pro-privacy angle is a more recent initiative from them.

(That said, just saying "yeah it's faster and doesn't leak memory now", even knowing that there are technical changes to support it, is just an anecdote from me, and I can't guarantee that something about your configurations, extensions, or even sites you visit won't cause a different experience. For example, Google is notorious for implementing their sites in ways that abuse non-standard technologies to make them faster on Chrome (And other browsers using the same engine) and slower on other engines, which is basically just Firefox/Gecko at this point, and shitty webdevs are increasingly testing/optimizing exclusively on Chrome at the expense of Firefox, not unlike the IE6 days)

use vivaldi

It's even on phone now