9mo ago

FF Evangelists

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My favorite part of Firefox is Ublock Origin.
- Mine is the tail plug, but UO is a strong second.
  
  Does the plug get sent to you automatically or do you have to register somewhere?
- Which is unavailable on Chrome?...
  
  Google is in the process of undermining the effectiveness of uBlock Origin and other adblockers on Chrome and other Chromium browsers. I believe that change comes into effect this year.
  But even before those changes were announced, uBlock Origin’s creator and main dev has stated that uBO is most capable on Firefox.
  
  Does it work flawlessly on Android, iOS, and desktop? I'm really asking, because I ditched Chrome when it was less shitty than it currently is...
  
  If it still works, I believe it has been neutered

I’m all for people using Firefox instead of Chrome, but RAM being used up shouldn’t be a complaint unless something else needs that RAM. If it’s there, it should be considered usable.
- Yep, I didn't buy that RAM to sit being unused.
  
  It's specifically about the efficiency of the usage. If it's not used effectively, then it really is a waste.
  And we all know how efficient the Web is nowadays...
- If it did a good job freeing it up when needed then sure, but it doesn't.
- hot take lol
- "Should" is doing a lot of heavy lifting
- @Veedem I still have 23Gb free. Time for more tabs!

they're right tho
- Yeah. Use Firefox or kiss a free Internet goodbye.
  
  I worry even Firefox is losing its principles on the matter.
- I'm never giving it up out of principle, but I dunno about the RAM usage. Firefox was above 7GB last I looked. I have RAM to spare though, so I don't really care.
  
  There's a Tab Discarder extension that suspends old tabs so they're stored on the drive rather than ram.
- Damn… is this why I feel so empty inside? I’m using Firefox but no tail plug or furry action?
  
  I mean if all you need is a cork to stop feeling empty
- Yeah tailplugs are awesome

do you have time to hear about our lord and savior Firefox with Ublock Origin?
- +sponsorblock +youtube dislike
  
  Noscript. Fuck your website and all your fancy functionality.
  I want to see static on my screen when I visit.
  
  I don't need sponsorblock as piped automatically skips sponsor segments :)
- Adnauseum
  
  isnt that the one that clicks on ALL the ads so they have a harder time profiling you?
  the scriptures allow for this one on sundays, but dont tell the orthodox traditionalists.
- Firefox + Ublock Origin + Sidebery + vertical CSS theme + Containers

Firefox uses lots of RAM
- And not very efficiently either, can't seem to handle 99+ tabs and starts getting unstable as you get closer to that number.
  Chrome at least can handle 300-600 tabs across 30 windows (The most I've ever pushed it) without breaking a sweat
  
  I think you have a tab problem.
  I suggest you try out a 12 step program. Tabaholics Anonymous works.
  
  Are you the guy that posted on the Microsoft forums about Edge crashing after 1600 open tabs?
  
  And I thought I was a monster with 50 tabs.
  
  What could you possibly be doing with 600 tabs??
  
  Oh whoops, I should close some windows, because I currently have 623 open tabs in Firefox across 107 windows. It's working fine, even with all my plugins running. Firefox is good at unloading dormant tabs.
  
  i run it at 500avg, it's perfectly fine
  
  Use bookmarks
  
  Well, I HATE having many tabs open. Just bookmark them for later. So far, FF is friendlier with how I go whereas the last times I tried Chrome, it often allocates RAM at launch for a thousand tabs that will never exist (hyperbole but you get it)
  
  I am not sure what you can possibly expect of any program. That is absurd.
- Yep, I use Firefox for the idea, but let's stop kidding ourselves that it is in any way memory efficient or fast

Best thing about Firefox is stability somehow it works nearly all devices
- So for some reason Firefox doesn't work most of the time on my parent's ISP. It simply doesn't find sites 80% of the time. I can take the same wifi adapter and move it to my place and it works fine. I've messed arounfld with different DNS and stuff, and I just can't get it to be reliable there.
  It's super annoying.
  
  It sounds like an issue with DNS-over-HTTPS. https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-dns-over-https Changing the DNS in the network settings of the operating system would not fix that.
  
  And other browsers work fine? That seems really weird.
  
  Aww man that sucks but hey atleast you can try Firefox forks maybe they can work

people don't complain to get solutions, they complain so everyone knows how miserable they are
- and to shame people into making a solution, hopefully.
  Or at least that's what we tell ourselves. Because it makes us feel better.
- Sympathy for the devil.

They should, might be in a better mood then..

I was at a party a few weeks ago and when we needed to use a web browser, one of the first things that happened was one of the attendees taking the computer to install FireFox.
- Good
  
  Heathens get one chance to repent

I put in a tailplug and put on fox ears every time I use Firefox.
- "I'm so used to getting fucked by Chrome and Edge that I just feel like something's missing if I don't."
- I actually got kicked out of school because I wouldn't use internet explorer, but Firefox is still the best option. Always was. Even if you need a special chair.
  
  Please elaborate, sounds like a crazy story.

There already getting railed by google
- Hey, I don't kinkshame
  
  What if kinkshaming is a kink?
- where?

Both have anime profile pictures so both are losers

Been using Firefox for years. Still a stupid dumb human, no fur.
- Wait, didn't you all get the free furry butt-plug when you downloaded FF?
  
  I've been walking around with it "plugged in" for 20 years. I did try Ice Weasel once, but that was simply too cold for my sensitive insides.
- Being a furry is a choice, not something that happens to you :) You've already taken the first steps
  
  I am urging you both to install the Firefox Waifu Theme :3

Ngl, I've never had issues with either for ram. my experience with Firefox is mostly the sameas chrome with ram usage. The main reason Im on Firefox is cause it's been a whole lot more stable for me than chrome.
- Also, adblockers still work.
- It's about the amount of tabs you keep open. Every site will take a piece of RAM and a max of 5Gb per tab if not mistaken.
  I think GChrome has a feature now where it tries to "kill" the tabs you're not using to mitigate this issue but it's opt in.
- I switched from Chrome to Firefox on my Mac desktop and the memory usage was cut in half at least. I only use it on my Linux notebook, so I have no idea about the memory usage difference there, but there was an unquestionable difference on the Mac. It has 16 gb of ram and is from 7 years ago, so it was before the M-chips and their ram hunger and still gave me memory warnings.
  Now I never have memory issues on it. All it took was switching to Firefox.
  So it definitely makes a difference on some systems.
- If the majority of ram isn't being utilized you either have a problem or have entirely to much ram. I'm not saying programs can't be memory hogs, but they should utilize what resources are there to perform better. It would be like turning on a flash light, using all of the power and then covering half the bulb while trying to cross a field in the dark. The CPU and GPU use more electricity when running at higher percentages, ram is negligible for the most part.
  
  i always hear this but it's obviously not true lol, if i ever see my ram reach max usage the computer shits itself and i'll likely have to restart it because most things become utterly frozen
  full RAM utilization is patently not something you want.

Firefox users may very well be doing that and no one will know because Google is not spying on them through their browser.
- Kind of is. Part of Firefox revenue is from Google, who pays to have google as the default search engine

Just download more RAM
- Still takes 40%
- The fun part about percent is that it will increase linear to the source.

I will never not be upset at people who don't realize how ram works
- I'd say it's more the unwillingness to switch from shitty Chrome as if it was a bad thing to do.
  
  Chromium browsers have a lot of issues, and so does firefox, but ram usage is not one of chromes weaknesses, Chromium regularly preforms better for me then firefox does under low ram scenarios, Both in terms of chrome being responsive, and in terms of chrome not crippling everything else around it.

Komi can communicate??
- Komi gonna rip into your furry ass
- Through text.

As for the last question, yes the murring and the tail thingy aren't forbidden, to be clear.

Just create more ram out of thin air with zram. I've got 60gb now. 30 something actual ram (some of my 32gb gets allocated for the APU) and the same amount as zram. I can run 2 chrome instances now!
- But why would you want to even run one Chrome instance?
  
  One is dedicated to the power of our lord and savior jesus christ.
  The other is for Kim Possible foot porn.
- Yeah, with lz4 your zram will be fast too so you can do some gaming with it
- Show off. I have 12 GB of DDR3, and a swap partition on spinning rust.
  (save me)
- Isn't that just a fancy page file?

Firefox is for the weak.
Real men use NCSA Mosaic.
- I just telnet to port 443.
  
  Me circa 1993: This world-wide web thing is interesting, but it will never replace Gopher.
  True story.

My Firefox is sitting happy eating about 30GB of RAM right now...
- So you have 64gb total?
  
  Maybe just 32 GB?
- How many tabs do you have open?
  
  Yes.

Do I want to know what "murring" is?
- Do you?
- that depends on how into furries you are
  
  Ignorance is bliss then.
- Say "Murr" like you're a dog. Thats basically what it is
- Thank you for adding that to my search history

Somebody knows a bit too much 😏

Furrfox
- Furryfox was RIGHT THERE

WITNESS ME ❕
tetra

Orion > Firefox.
- I've not heard of orion before, what do you like better about it? Is it WebKit based?
  
  Hi, not the Original Commenter but an occasional user of Orion.
  It is webkit based but has full compatibility for all Firefox and Chrome extensions. Plus in my experience it's really fast at loading stuff - noticeably so.
  It's being developed by the people behind the Kagi search engine which is also really good

i just want a web browser that doesn't cause me to have strokes, and doesn't give me internet aids.
How fucking hard is it to write a piece of software jesus fucking christ.
- Motherfucker have you tried looking at a browser implementation? It might just be the single most complex piece of software on the planet today. It's basically an OS, JS environment and GUI toolkit in one
  
  thats exactly the problem.
  That would make sense as to why it's such a dogshit piece of software, wouldnt it? That's why windows is bad after all.
  Also fun fact. I recently had a spat with firefox taking like 30s to startup, apparently for SOME fucking reason, someone thought a 25s timeout would be sane in the event that discord doesn't detect xdg-desktop-settings or whatever the specific was.

just use ungoogled chromium
Edit: what the fuck?! I did not expect this much hate for recommending an open source, privacy preserving, technologically superior browser. You guys need to touch grass.
- "just buy a bmw and hack the heated seats into a switch that you physically installed into the dash" this u right now
- Welcome to Lemmy. You may only advocate for Firefox.

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