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0 pointsfud1011y ago0 comments

I don't really think Firefox cares about having users. The one killer feature Chrome has is being able to access all your state by logging into your Chrome account. Firefox refuses to provide this basic service which will allow you to seamlessly use your data on Firefox and then eventually stop using Chrome. I wish Firefox nothing but the worst.

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mdaniel1y ago

I may be feeding the trolls, but not only is there a sync mechanism, at least with Firefox you can self-host[1] such a thing, thereby doubly ensuring the data isn't used for something you disagree with

If you're going to say that Firefox doesn't care about having users, point out its just stunningly stupid memory usage, blatantly stale developer tools (that one hurts me the worst because the Chrome dev-tooling is actually open source, so there's nothing stopping them from actually having Best In Class dev tooling other than no-fucks-given), or the har-de-har-har that comes up periodically of bugs that have been open longer than a lot of developers have been alive

1: https://github.com/mozilla-services/syncstorage-rs#running-v...

fud101OP1y ago

Don't care about self hosting. That's not a feature to me, it's a burden. I would rather some cloud provider do that for me, thankfully Google does it for free and the convenience is much appreciated. It's the same reason i'd put my personal code in Github than some hard drive in the basement which may die anytime.

mdaniel1y ago

Perhaps you interpreted my comment as that one must self-host, versus what I intended which is "you can use theirs, or you can use yours, depending on your paranoia level". I thought to include that distinction because some folks believe that Chrome is merely a data exfiltration and ad delivery vector created by the biggest Ad Tech on the planet and therefore don't trust them to be good stewards of arguably the most sensitive thing a modern user creates: browser history

Of course one can just use Firefox Sync out of the box <https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/sync>; even Mozilla has not yet stooped so low as to require opening a terminal just to use Firefox or its Sync component

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globular-toast1y ago

I find Firefox's memory usage and dev tooling better than Chrome.

chgs1y ago

My Firefox installs on my various computers have a shard profile, so what are you on about?

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mdaniel1y ago

1: https://github.com/mozilla-services/syncstorage-rs#running-v...

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globular-toast1y ago

I find Firefox's memory usage and dev tooling better than Chrome.

chgs1y ago

My Firefox installs on my various computers have a shard profile, so what are you on about?

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