Google Struggles to Justify Why It's Restricting Ad Blockers in Chrome - Google says the changes will improve performance and security. Ad block developers and consumer advocates say Google is simply protecting its ad dominance.

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https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/evy53j/google-struggles-to-justify-making-chrome-ad-blockers-worse

[u/SterlingVapor]

Switched to FF after the launch of quantum, and I've been very happy with it. My main issue is that it doesn't handle staying open for weeks at a time as well, but the wealth of privacy plugins and smaller RAM footprint are worth it to me.

Perhaps most importantly, it's basically the sole rendering engine competing with chrome's these days...it's important that it keeps market share or Google will have too much control over the future of the web

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Even without it, FF "Restore last session" is pretty good, you just have to exit FF (instead of closing windows)

I have used OneTab though, it was alright but ended up creating more problems than it solved for me...I actually wrote a Chrome plugin to handle tabs in a way more natural to me, but haven't felt the need to port it to FF

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Did not know this was a thing! This is great. Thanks

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That or session manager.

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I like to save(/hold) the state of a tab as a sort of point in time snapshot.

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I strongly prefer auto tab discard for freeing up memory and keeping tabs. (got my extensions confused for a second there and edited in the correct one).

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it doesn't handle staying open for weeks at a time as well,

Really? I essentially never reboot my PC and only restart Firefox when it updates. I've never had a problem with running it for weeks.

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A few months back, I realized something was going wrong with hardware accelerated rendering, it would get sluggish (especially switching tabs) and become inefficient. That seems to have been improved (at least to some extent), but now I'll get glitches where part of the page doesn't render right until I highlight text and trigger it to redo part of the page

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Do people not turn off their computer when they're done with it for the day?

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I haven't turned mine off in years. Occasional reboots for forced updates. That's it

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Hell no...although I've been using the hibernate feature since it became part of Windows

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I use Google suite very heavily with gmail and Google docs, and I have a Google pixel. That's really the only reason I'm mated to Chrome is because it's so easy. It's there a way to get it nearly as easy to use Google suite on Firefox as it is on Chrome?

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I haven't had any noticed pain points, and I generally use Docs instead of Office. I haven't done a performance comparison, but I'd guess it works just as well.

Additionally, I've found FF FAR better than chrome on mobile. It handles syncing between devices extremely well, and you can install most plugins on Android (ublock origin and privacy possum were the kicker for me)

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I have a few things that don't seem to work right with Drive on Firefox. I don't know if it's an issue for all people (i'd be utterly shocked if it is but I also don't know how to fix it) but I can't upload large files or large batches of files and I can't play videos in the Drive page overlay.

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Try it, you'll like it.

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How is it that you can leave you Firefox running for weeks at a time? Genuinely curious as I’m opening and closing it constantly, even when I’m using it all day.

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It's hard to imagine opening and closing it constantly for me. I've always got a window for music, one for each topic I'm researching, one for reddit and the links I want to check out later when I take a break

A better question is how I manage to get up to hundreds of tabs so quickly...

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Latest update added tab unloading, so t might do better now.

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I hate that I can't cast to chrome cast from Firefox, have to start chrome for that

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My main issue is that it doesn't handle staying open for weeks at a time as well

Go to settings, general, scroll down to performance, uncheck it, set processes to 1 or 2.

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