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plus the usual betterfox

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[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

This got me to finally move away from Edge. Only thing I'm wishing comes soon is native PWA support. The addon is so janky and my biggest gripe about using Firefox, but I can put up with it since I've now got vertical tabs and multiple profiles

[-] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

I am currently trying to see if I can replace Firefox with Zen. Zen still has some Firefox telemetry but they are off by default, so I like it. I think difference under the hood is DRM. Maybe it is time to finally ditch Netflix.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

Netflix and their low resolution can suck it. Sail the seas, matey

[-] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

New Firefox forks are quite interesting. I've tried it, these are my impressions so far:

  • The UI looks a little bit too much like a generic electron app to me, there is no option for native GTK or QT theming.
  • It seems they ship version that use the newer CPU instructions to optimize the application, I'm not sure standard Firefox does. This is neat. It does feel a bit faster but I'm unsure whether this is because of optimizations or because I have 100x as many tabs open on vanilla Firefox right now.
  • The vertical tabs are very nice. I currently use the "Tree Style Tab" extension and some hacky CSS scripts for that, and this seems like it would work a lot better.
  • The shortcuts are off by default, which is nice, but still seem to be the same as Firefox.
  • It feels a bit buggy. I had to restart the application to be able to load a site.
  • They kept Firefox sync, which I like.
  • You can choose between dark and light mode on the first startup, but I haven't been able to find the setting again.

Conclusion Overall, a decent Firefox rebrand. Better tab management, split windows, and workspaces seem quite nice. I would probably consider using it if it put the settings in 1 place and didn't have any bugs.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

So far I really like it, some minor gripes like the private browsing window being hard to distinguish and Pocket being missing (I'm one of the 5 persons that uses it), but for that first one there's already a GitHub issue opened.

[-] [email protected] 0 points 3 weeks ago

> using GitHub logo to represent open-source

🤮

[-] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

It's not representing open-source. It's representing Zen's GitHub presence.

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