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10 Reasons You Should Switch From Chrome to Firefox. (www.howtogeek.com)

submitted 8 months ago by L4s@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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10 Reasons You Should Switch From Chrome to Firefox.::The best browser sync out there.

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[–] ensignrolaren@lemmy.world 30 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (17 children)

There’s like… no downside: all upside.

Edit: I exaggerated, of course. Below this are some downsides that individuals have experienced. But personally, my experience using Firefox on desktop for Mac has been all upside. If everybody who can just tries it out, you might be surprised at how friction-free the change is.

[–] sonovebitch@lemmy.world 10 points 8 months ago (8 children)

One thing I miss in Firefox is tab grouping. Yes there are 3rd party extensions that do that. But Chromium based browsers support that natively.

[–] candyman337@lemmy.world 5 points 8 months ago (4 children)

Sideberry is leaps and bounds better at it imo tho

[–] AVengefulAxolotl@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, this extension is crazy good. It works as if it was native.

[–] candyman337@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago

Agreed, and it seems like Firefox has recently made an effort to accommodate the extension more, as it seems to run even better than it used to and is now a recommended extension

[–] theneverfox@pawb.social 2 points 8 months ago

Oh hell yeah... Thank you friend. I immediately downloaded it, and it took me all of 30 seconds to realize this is it

This is what I've been looking for, for years now. I even took a crack at it myself several years ago, but then I realized it wasn't possible without doing an extension (rather than a plug-in) if I wanted to do it right

You have mitigated one of most inconvenient recurring problems in my life. I'm working on a lemmy app right now, and I'm so grateful I'm going to move up the "mark user as friend" feature.

How would you like me to guild your username so I might recognize you in the future? Lit up border? Tiny crown on your avatar? A little lemmy gold symbol next to the score? I'm open to suggestion

[–] dustyData@lemmy.world 0 points 8 months ago

It gives me anxiety, it's way too overcrowded and cluttered. I use Tree Style Tab. It does one thing, it does it well, it doesn't overcomplicate it, it works with me.

[–] Caligvla@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

You haven't tried Vivaldi then. It has the best tab management features of any browser by leaps and bounds, it saddens me they chose Chromium over Gecko given that manifest v3 is coming.

[–] barter@lemmy.eco.br 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I don’t like that Vivaldi can’t have multiple levels of grouping like you can in sideberry or tree style tabs

[–] Caligvla@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 8 months ago

I guess that's the one feature Sideberry has over Vivaldi, but I've never missed it if I'm being honest. To each their own.

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