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To: ShadowAce
Been a Firefox user since v0.8 (2004), having moved over from Netscape at that time. I've tried other browsers in recent years, like Brave, Vivaldi, Chrome, and Opera, but each has their own set of frustrations.

Actually, I do like Opera, but given they were sold to the Chinese makes me leery about using it full-time. I do use Opera on occasion when Firefox will bark about a webpage and not display it. I'm not talking about security warnings. Firefox just comes up with a blank webpage or section of a webpage.

10 posted on 08/19/2020 4:46:14 AM PDT by CatOwner
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To: CatOwner

Same here. Been using ff forever. I run two versions at the same time pretty much all the time because I’m a tab freak. Usually have 30-50 tabs open in each version LOL. I run regular ff and ff developer version. I like being able to scroll through the tabs instead of them shrinking down to where I can’t tell what’s what like Brave does. FF dev version screwed me on a recent update. I guess it was a major one or they just messed up. Lost everything. Tabs, history, bookmarks etc. I copied my regular FF profile over to it. Gave me back everything but my open tabs.

Falkon is a new one I kind of like but I haven’t used it a whole lot yet, https://www.falkon.org/

Very fast and has a slew of settings. It’s multiplatform.

I run linux which means I can use Chromium which is Chrome before googly gets their hands on it. I just don’t like Chromium/Chrome.

I use “open in new tab” a lot and with ff, it’s one swift motion to right click, move pointer over “open in new tab” and release right button. In all the rest, you have to right click, release right click, move pointer over Open in New Tab and left click. pita

There’s also a lot of addons for FF that have no equivalent in chrome/chromium based browsers.


39 posted on 08/19/2020 6:23:45 AM PDT by Pollard (whatever)
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