Comment by lucb1e

Comment by lucb1e 2 days ago

7 replies

The smoke on the water!

More seriously, I'm a Firefox user since ~2006 but I'm about equally surprised by the statement that Firefox should blow Chrome/ium out of the water as that Firefox supposedly sucks. They're both browsers. I think Chromium is a bit faster in page rendering, whereas Firefox is more open, privacy-friendly, and customizable. Similar to how I wish consumers would not choose an anti-consumer organization (anyone who values a free market and general computation1 should not choose iOS), I think nobody should choose Chrome but, still, I can understand if someone does choose it because they've gotten used to how it works and they're not willing to change. It's about equal in practical functionality that 95% of people use, wouldn't you say? Or in what way is Firefox blowing Chrome out of the water?

¹ https://www.thekurzweillibrary.com/the-coming-war-on-general...

eviks a day ago

> Firefox is more open, privacy-friendly, and customizable.

How do you customize the default keyboard shortcuts?

  • lucb1e a day ago

    Sadly they dropped XUL some years ago. I stuck to that version for all the customizations it allowed, but became untenable and it was clear I couldn't run a browser from 2017 for the next 50 years so I bit the bullet. I'm now also on webextensions instead of real add-ons

    Yet it's still more customizable for users than Chrome/ium is. That there is a particular customization they got rid of is a shame and what you mention in the sibling comment (only works in some contexts) bothers me every day when I try to use mouse gestures on a settings page or mozilla domain and it refuses to work, but those new limitations don't make the statement untrue as a whole

    • eviks 21 hours ago

      Firefox is less customizable than Chromium-based Vivaldi, so the statement is still not true

      • lucb1e 12 hours ago

        the 'based' does the heavy lifting there. I said Firefox (the browser) not Gecko (the engine). I'm sure you can customize everything in either browser (or engine) if you download the source and recompile it with the modifications you like, or even hex edit the binary, go wild. But I'm sure you know what is meant...

        • eviks 12 hours ago

          > But I'm sure you know what is meant...

          Not really, you've explicitly said this

          > Yet it's still more customizable for users than Chrome/ium is

          And then rejected the fitting comparison: Firefox (the browser) is not more customizable than Chromium-Vivaldi (the browser)

          I also don't see how the engine used for page rendering is relevant when discussing UI