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From yesterday, I have made Firefox Developer edition my primary browser replacing chrome.

So far it's doing a great job. Its feel fast as chrome.

Some google site like docs or spreadsheet is lagging sometimes.

I still click on chrome time to time without realizing.

Let's see how far I can do with this experience.

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  • 1
    Check dark reader extension, it's life changing.
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    Switched to FF on all my devices few months ago. I'm still missing Tab-key search and developer tools choke on larger (eg. webpacked) files, but overall it's a decent experience and switching was smooth. Oh, and tab queue on Android is great.

    Why Developer edition, though?
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    @gronostaj Developer edition has better developer tools compare to the standard version.

    https://mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/...
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    @irene The problem is I have not used the stable version for like for 3 years. So I don't know how much difference is there compared to the stable version.

    And the developer edition is tailored for a web developer. So I don't think the normal user should use it.
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    @irene Basically it has some extra developer tools and is two major releases ahead of regular edition. https://superuser.com/a/842614
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    I switch profiles from time to time. How does Firefox fare?
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    Fine! Now throw it out of the window and install Falkon. 😉
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    Me haven't fully abandoned chrome at work cuz kubernetes web console does not behave well in firefox, i take that as an intented "feature". Very sad
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    @agentQ about:profiles is your friend. firefox is good with multiple profiles.

    I have multiple profiles for different purposes - 1 for the stable version, 1 for developer edition (firefox does that by default), 1 for testing the web development (or more debugging) stuff I do and then a whole bunch of profiles for different services on the internet; but those were before the Containers web-extension came along. So, those profiles are now obsoleted with the Containers web-extension.

    PS : I'm a stable user by default. I use the developer edition for all my web development stuff.
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    @irene Because it ain't DirePox. 😈
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    Im finding myself agreeing with @dontbeevil. What has the world come to? 😋

    In all seriousness, though, Google absolutely makes their products perform worse on other browsers. Shady and uncool.

    So. Leave them behind.
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    in this days I just use chrome to setup my yubikey’s
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    Also, Firefox <3
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    Chrome is evil. Google purposely slows their doc editor sites on other systems and sabatoged YouTube so much that edge gave up and is now going to use a chromium core.
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    @dontbeevil or even used the Mozilla core
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    @irene Nope. QtWebengine, which uses some parts of chromium code. It is not a Chromium fork or anything like that.

    That's why Falkon is a lot faster than Chrome/Chromium and Firefox.

    It doesn't support/have a wide range of addOns, though...
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    @irene nope, webengine, not webkit. But be it as it may, everybody should just choose for themselves. 😉
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