Firefox not a particularly great browswer

[Solarion]

It's the history TABS. It defeats the whole point of browser security. You're at an internet cafe and despite clearing all your history, the only way to remove the history tabs glaring at you on the home page is to manually delete them one by one as if you have nothing better to do with your existence.

What browser do you guys use? I used to swear allegiance to Firefox but those days are gone. I am contemplating Chrome.

 

[LazyLion]

Firefox... nothing else can match it for flexibility.

And I don't use Internet Cafes... ever.

 

[grok]

I've heard all the really smart browsers nowadays have incognito or private mode that doesn't keep any of your session history, but don't let me keep you from your contemplation..

 

[Ho3n3r]

It's the history TABS. It defeats the whole point of browser security. You're at an internet cafe and despite clearing all your history, the only way to remove the history tabs glaring at you on the home page is to manually delete them one by one as if you have nothing better to do with your existence.

What browser do you guys use? I used to swear allegiance to Firefox but those days are gone. I am contemplating Chrome.

Chrome's awesome, especially if you have an Android phone. Integration everywhere. And 2 people can use it on the same PC with no interference in browser history/saved passwords etc.

Ditched FF a few years ago (like 5, actually) when it annoyed the hell out of me, had to use Chrome for every 3rd website because something "wasn't working" on many of them. Wife moved over when she was having issues with Firefox as well.

 

[Ho3n3r]

I've heard all the really smart browsers nowadays have incognito or private mode that doesn't keep any of your session history, but don't let me keep you from your contemplation..

Even Edge has that, and it's the dumbest of them all.

 

[RyanPCMR]

Firefox with Noscript and Adblock Plus. For smartphone Firefox for Android and Google Chrome Beta.

These are called web browsers not browswer.

 

[gregmcc]

1. Would never use a internet cafe. You have no idea what they are capturing.
2. If you really have to then use incognito mode.

 

[Solarion]

Firefox with Noscript and Adblock Plus. For smartphone Firefox for Android and Google Chrome Beta.

These are called web browsers not browswer.

 

[backstreetboy]

Edge at work and Chrome at home. No need for Firefox when Edge is on par with it looking at the HTML5 test https://html5test.com/results/desktop.html

 

[Johnatan56]

Firefox with Noscript and Adblock Plus. For smartphone Firefox for Android and Google Chrome Beta.

These are called web browsers not browswer.

uBlock origin rather.


@OP use CTRL+SHIFT+P on firefox for incognito mode, I would always do this on an internet cafe. CTRL+SHIFT+N on chrome. Also, remove private data in firefox, just restart afterwards and top sites should be cleared as well.

I moved back to FF from Chrome as I don't like the material design UI change.

Edge at work and Chrome at home. No need for Firefox when Edge is on par with it looking at the HTML5 test https://html5test.com/results/desktop.html

Yes, but that huge bar at the top, the lack of plugin support (creator's update will fix it), I don't like the completely flat design, the fact that extensions have to come from the Store and it just seems slower to load pages.

And the HTML5 benchmark depends on what. (I am really disappointed in firefox still not supporting dates/time properly)

 

[backstreetboy]

uBlock origin rather.


@OP use CTRL+SHIFT+P on firefox for incognito mode, I would always do this on an internet cafe. CTRL+SHIFT+N on chrome. Also, remove private data in firefox, just restart afterwards and top sites should be cleared as well.

I moved back to FF from Chrome as I don't like the material design UI change.



Yes, but that huge bar at the top, the lack of plugin support (creator's update will fix it), I don't like the completely flat design, the fact that extensions have to come from the Store and it just seems slower to load pages.

And the HTML5 benchmark depends on what.

All the extensions I use daily (Ublock origin, Lastpass and Pocket) are there and for the rest, I'm not bothered. Firefox is also copying Chrome yet again with a new Photon UI said to debut with Firefox 57.

 

[Neoprod]

I switched to Chrome full-time a few weeks back though it also buries history cleaning deep in the background somewhere. History Eraser add-on takes care of that and Free Download Manager for general download acceleration and management takes care of what I used Downloadthemall on Firefox for.

 

[Johnatan56]

All the extensions I use daily (Ublock origin, Lastpass and Pocket) are there and for the rest, I'm not bothered. Firefox is also copying Chrome yet again with a new Photon UI said to debut with Firefox 57.

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From: https://www.neowin.net/news/mozilla-is-working-on-a-new-ui-for-firefox-57 ?
Good thing Firefox allows me to customize the UI to what I like.
Also, I really like: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multiple-tab-handler/

 

[Swa]

I agree. No good browsers left after Opera gave up the fight. Open more than 10 tabs and they're unable to cope and all of them using some kind of db storage so if anything crashes your entire history is gone. Opera was fault tolerant enough that your files remained intact and even if they didn't you could piece the text together. Can't even find the correct files with the new browsers.

 

[Johnatan56]

I agree. No good browsers left after Opera gave up the fight. Open more than 10 tabs and they're unable to cope and all of them using some kind of db storage so if anything crashes your entire history is gone. Opera was fault tolerant enough that your files remained intact and even if they didn't you could piece the text together. Can't even find the correct files with the new browsers.

I currently have ~30 tabs open though and not crashing....
Erm, haven't they always? Not sure what you mean by crash entire history is gone, both FF and Chrome have a reopen last browsing session and a history tab (ctrl-shift-h on FF, not sure with Chrome right now).
Both browsers have a search function within the downloads tabs. On crash that the file disappears, do you mean that it isn't deleted? Chrome makes a temp file which is the download file and another place-holder file that gets replaced with the temp file on download completion. Not sure with FF (don't really pay attention).

And really not sure what you mean by can't find the correct files. Do you want to save to specific location? They both do that, you probably just ticked to remember previous setting whereby it always downloads to that place.

 

[Binary_Bark]

Works well on my linux machine, but on my windows machine I use chrome.

 

[KleinBoontjie]

Contemplating Chrome? Sorry to burst your bubble, but there hasn't been a good browser for years now. All of them suck. I personally use both Firefox and Chrome. I jump between the two, as I found that some sites works better on one and some better on the other. I also use IE, but that's for some Microsoft proprietary stuff at work.

 

[AlphaJohn]

Ad Block Plus + Noscript + Firefox > anything else

Esp seeing that I work on both Linux and Windows environments.

 

[grok]

I currently have ~30 tabs open though and not crashing....

With Firefox & tabgroupsmanager I have over 200 tabs in my browser at all times, some less often used groups snoozed so they don't chow memory. My ff footprint hovers between 1 & 2 gig

 

[Johnatan56]

Ad Block Plus + Noscript + Firefox > anything else

Esp seeing that I work on both Linux and Windows environments.

uBlock origin is better.