bleu

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After at least 10-12 years of having switched over to Chrome and Chromium-based browsers, I decided to move back to Mozilla Firefox because I was getting fed up with Vivaldi's relative instability when having at least 100+ tabs across a span of 3 windows despite it being touted for its tab and window manager management tools which would make it seem like the perfect option for that kind of heavy user like myself. It started giving me weird tab persistance issues after a certain amount of time with the browser. This behaviour seems to be worse on my laptop which only has 8 gigabytes of RAM, compared to my desktop's 32.

The nice thing about Firefox is that it's still a solid option today, despite the hegemony of Chromium-based browsers out there. The Gecko engine is still very capable of doing whatever I would need it to run. Mozilla's less heavy-handed approach to extensions also mean that some extensions like FastForward and AdNauseum would have to be sideloaded on Chromium browsers, whereas for Firefox, they could simply be downloaded from Firefox's extension store. It's one less thing to think of if I want to move between different PCs or configurations, when I get sync set up.

I used to use NoScript back when adblockers weren't really so much of a thing yet, but the drawback is that it's a very indiscriminate solution which requires you to manually adjust many different types of content to load. It might not even be clear which elements are required for the dang media to load, or if they're just telemetry/resource bloat that you don't need to run at all. uMatrix seems to be able to modernise and replace NoScript's niche pretty well, but then again, got to play with the switches whenever visiting a new website or when the website updates itself.

It's a good time to consider going back to the good old friend Mozilla Firefox (and its forks), seeing as Google's entrenched status wthin the internet has made it a less enjoyable experience to surf the web and do whatever you want.


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in reply to @bleu's post:

Unfortunately, the situation for one of my favourite extensions on Firefox got dire and they've just removed it without warning. It was the oldtwitter extension, which makes twitter (ain't gonna call it X) bearable to use.

Awful timing, I was about to get right onboard with it. From what I've read, sideloading extensions is a pain in the arse. Damn it.

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