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0 pointswlll7y ago0 comments

As someone who switched from Chrome to Firefox a few months ago my main issues are:

* No spellcheck in form fields (without a plugin, and I hate plugins).

* It feels slower. There's something about it that just doesn't feel as fast. Mostly things like opening windows etc.

* There's some annoying defaults.

* Dev tools aren't as good.

* Updates aren't installed automatically.

I mean, it's close to Chrome, which is good (for me), but it just feels about 5% less polished. It's good enough that I'll stick with it, after all there was a driving force for me to leave Chrome too.

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sleavey7y ago

Spell check just needs a dictionary installed, not a plugin. This takes about three clicks.

kkarakk7y ago

three clicks i'd never heard out til today(i just got irritated by the lack of functionality and do my form filling in chrome)

wlllOP7y ago

I'm on a mac and everything else spell checks just fine, so:

1. Why not Firefox?

2. Why do I have to jump through some undocumented hoops to get something that should work out of the box?

toofy7y ago

I'm guessing they meant "No spellcheck in forms without jumping through more hoops."

wlllOP7y ago

Right. When I looked into how to get spell checking in form fields all the advice I could find on the Internet was "install a plugin".

It seems to me that spell checking of form fields should be a basic feature integrated into the browser.

mehrdadn7y ago

+1 for feeling slower and dev tools not being as good.

And Google sites are actually slower on Firefox, which I assume is not their fault but still doesn't work in their favor.

gdwatson7y ago

For clarity, what platform are you on? Updates are automatic on Windows and managed by the package manager on Linux and BSD.

wlllOP7y ago

Mac

edit To clarify, I'm used to Chrome seemingly just updating itself in the background. Firefox needs a restart, and so far the restart behaviour with Firefox has been less reliable than Chrome (losing opened tabs sometimes, for instance).

teknologist7y ago

You could have a look at Brave, a commercially-supported degoogled chromium.

x0x07y ago

on my box FF is a stunning memory pig

I understand this is my fault for having 10-30 tabs open at any point in time, but still, chrome will generally manage that at 2-4gb ram. FF often breaks 10gb.

I understand Jira is a pig of an app (Atlassian software is generally shit), but I unfortunately need to use it all day long. Chrome seems to be able to handle 2-4 each of jira, gmail, google cal, github, aws console, and slack. FF couldn't last time I tried, a couple months after they released Quantum.

This would, of course, be less of a problem if the cheapest macbook with 32g ram didn't cost $3k...

pimeys7y ago

I never see my total RAM usage going over 6G to the whole system if I don't compile anything. I have tens of tabs open and the 32G of RAM is most of the time useless. Mind you the ThinkPad RAM upgrade was about 120€...

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0 pointswlll7y ago0 comments

As someone who switched from Chrome to Firefox a few months ago my main issues are:

* No spellcheck in form fields (without a plugin, and I hate plugins).

* It feels slower. There's something about it that just doesn't feel as fast. Mostly things like opening windows etc.

* There's some annoying defaults.

* Dev tools aren't as good.

* Updates aren't installed automatically.

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sleavey7y ago

Spell check just needs a dictionary installed, not a plugin. This takes about three clicks.

kkarakk7y ago

three clicks i'd never heard out til today(i just got irritated by the lack of functionality and do my form filling in chrome)

wlllOP7y ago

I'm on a mac and everything else spell checks just fine, so:

1. Why not Firefox?

2. Why do I have to jump through some undocumented hoops to get something that should work out of the box?

toofy7y ago

I'm guessing they meant "No spellcheck in forms without jumping through more hoops."

wlllOP7y ago

Right. When I looked into how to get spell checking in form fields all the advice I could find on the Internet was "install a plugin".

It seems to me that spell checking of form fields should be a basic feature integrated into the browser.

mehrdadn7y ago

+1 for feeling slower and dev tools not being as good.

And Google sites are actually slower on Firefox, which I assume is not their fault but still doesn't work in their favor.

gdwatson7y ago

For clarity, what platform are you on? Updates are automatic on Windows and managed by the package manager on Linux and BSD.

wlllOP7y ago

Mac

teknologist7y ago

You could have a look at Brave, a commercially-supported degoogled chromium.

x0x07y ago

on my box FF is a stunning memory pig

I understand this is my fault for having 10-30 tabs open at any point in time, but still, chrome will generally manage that at 2-4gb ram. FF often breaks 10gb.

This would, of course, be less of a problem if the cheapest macbook with 32g ram didn't cost $3k...

pimeys7y ago

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