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Microsoft accidentally leaks internal tool that can enable hidden Windows 11 features (www.windowscentral.com)
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[+] -63 points 3 years ago (6 children)

Why use chrome when edge is just better

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  • [–] 155 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Or, use Firefox 😈

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  • [+] -9 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    Or Floorp for an even better experience

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  • [–] 7 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    I love derivate-browsers; using vivaldi (based on chrome).

    As much of the site seems japanese and I don't want to dig deep this morning: can you please give me 2-3 reasons what makes floorp so good?

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  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago* (1 child)

    1. Pre-installed tools such as a translator and tab bar on the left

    2. More pre-installed themes and integration with Mica For Everyone (haven't tested this because I ain't booting to W🤢ndows)

    3. Tighter on privacy than default Firefox

    There are some others I may have missed because I got used to them

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  • [–] 6 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Well that's a sentence I never expected to hear

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  • [–] 5 points 3 years ago (4 children)

    I hate Edge less than I hate Chrome now, I feel dirty saying it tho.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

    the vertical tabs <3

    now i use Arc though which has been amazing. i don’t think i can ever go back to horizontal tabs. i love Firefox so much, its just missing a good implementation of this one feature that i can’t live without! there are some extensions but it’s not even close to the native implementation of it on edge and arc browser especially

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

    If you're wanting a Firefox-based browser with sidebar / vertical tabs, I'd take a look at Floorp.

    It aims to be a Gecko equivalent to things like Vivaldi, you can get it at https://floorp.app. The recent version 11 release is fantastic.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

    interesting! looks pretty cool, i’ll give it a shot later. thanks! something just feels morally wrong to me about actively using a chromium based browser, it’s always in the back of my mind lmao. we are all part of the problem.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago

    I know that feeling, which is why I moved to Firefox quite a long time ago.

    Jumped around some forks for a bit, and now I'm settled on Floorp for desktop and Mull for Android.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    I couldn't find the setting "don't give websites the permission to play sound" (mutes all audio unless enabled per-site) in Edge, or Firefox. Chrome has that setting.

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  • [–] 22 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Firefox:
    Tools/Settings/Privacy & Security/Permissions/Autoplay/Settings/Default for all Websites: Block Audio

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  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago* (1 child)

    Not the same thing, audio will still start playing after user interaction with the site. The setting in Chrome blocks all audio from the site, regardless of what you do.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    My work emails all run through the google suite of applications and I have two of them plus drive etc so having chrome allows me to have multiple profiles for each work account and they are remote managed by the company.

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  • [–] 11 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    Use Firefox with Container Tabs. It uses separate session for each container

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

    This does not keep my bookmarks and passwords synced across all the work devices I have to use does it?

    I regularly log into 2 work email accounts and have a third that I check monthly. I do this across 5 work devices which are shared, my personal MacBook Air which is used primarily for work and my phone.

    If Firefox has sync features that work with cloud storage as opposed to device storage it would be practical otherwise it’s no go

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    If you use browser to store passwords that's a huge security risk. You're better off using a password manager to manage and sync your password.

    Having synced bookmarks is fair though. I use 2 devices for work but I didn't keep synced bookmarks. I usually have the most used tabs pinned so it keeps standby and I keep the important links for each project pinned inside the project Slack channel.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago

    You'll get a lot of hate here for saying it, but you're not entirely wrong. When they offered free GPT to people running edge I went ahead and loaded it out with my normal compliment of plugins to try it as a secondary browser.

    I'm not exactly sure what all they did to it, but it's not just Chrome with the different skin It's notably faster and lighter on the memory footprint.

    The reason why I'm not willing to convert to them completely as I don't trust Microsoft with all my data. I'm already keeping as much telemetry from them as I can.

    These days I float between Firefox and Brave. Firefox isn't likely to sell my data, and Brave will sell my data but their anti-fingerprinting is pretty solid so they're at least not just letting everyone track me for free.

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