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There’s an old mantra from organizing: “no permanent enemies, no permanent allies.” You will never align with another group or person 100% on all things; the se
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There’s an old mantra from organizing: “no permanent enemies, no permanent allies.” You will never align with another group or person 100% on all things; the secret to making change is to build a coalition of those with whom you agree on an issue without holding it against them that you disagree on a different one.
I disagree with Mozilla about many things, but I agree with this article - I use Firefox because it’s the only browser out there that isn’t Chrome or WebKit, and that’s worth enough to me that I’m willing to disagree with them on other issues.
- andrew_lettuce 15d agoI like this, and I also think it will help this Canadian deal with the current position of the USA
- ygjb 15d agoIt's absolutely critical, and worth mentioning, that even after substantial reductions, there are a lot of Canadians still working on and contributing to Firefox!
- olejorgenb 15d agoIt's also better that the other browser in many ways. The "Awesome Bar" among them.
- weaksauce 15d agomiddle mouse click auto-scrolling too!
- delecti 15d agoWhat's different about the Awesome Bar from Chrome? IIRC Chrome had the unified search/URL bar before Firefox did, and I don't remember it being very different from Firefox's implementation. If anything, I remember it being easier to add search engines in Chrome (unless it's gotten worse in the past few years since I switched to Firefox). Am I missing out on cool features of the URL bar in Firefox? Edit: made my question more specific
- dudinax 15d agofirefox still support ublock origins
- delecti 15d agoI was very narrowly asking about the "Awesome Bar", the example the GP comment mentioned as being better than Chrome.
- JoshTriplett 15d agoAmong other things, it's less about searching the web, and more about reliably surfacing your history and bookmarks and already open tabs.
- daishi424 15d agoThis is what bugs me every time I have to use Chrome. I know why Chrome does it, it has every incentive to put people through search at every opportunity. There is no way to put results from the history on top. But you can do that in Firefox.
- clipsy 15d agoI'm sure it varies from person to person, but I find it very frustrating to use Chrome's equivalent of the "Awesome Bar" when I'm forced to (eg work computer); Firefox just seems to do a much better job of surfacing open tabs (yes, I'm a tab hoarder), bookmarks, history, etc while Chrome seems like it'll surface some dubiously relevant options and try to railroad you into search. Even when I know I have a tab open and I know the domain name or a substantial chunk of the title it is legitimately rare for Chrome to offer to switch me to that tab, and often times it will surface one or two tabs that seem utterly unrelated. Bafflingly bad performance from what used to be a search company.
- InvertedRhodium 15d agoFirefox doesn't report every keystroke put into the Awesome bar back to Mozilla, AFAIK.
- GloriousKoji 15d agoI might be the odd one out but I hate the awesome bar. What I do like about Firefox is I can make the awesome bar just a boring address bar and have a separate search bar.