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My son is a programmer and told me to switch. I’m computer challenged and believe the old adage, if it ain’t broke don’t fix it. I still use internet explorer. But I drive a Telsa not a model T.
Quote by ChuckEPoo
if it ain’t broke don’t fix it. I still use internet explorer.
Quote by nicola
The Tesla is an excellent choice for the planet Chuck! Not to mention the crazy performance.
Tony Seba is a man who knows an awful lot on the subject of electric vehicles and disruptive technologies. He thinks 90% of all new vehicles produced around the globe in 2030, will be electric. And why not? 90% fewer parts, the battery costs will be a fraction of what they are now. No pollution whatsoever. Quite brilliant.
Musk wasn't the first to come up with the idea, but he's a pioneer, and I love his drive to push things forward for the good of the planet and future generations. My next car will be an all electric, if the price comes down enough. I think it's maybe 2 years away before that's the case, with these giga factories coming out.
I got distracted there, sorry. It's a passion of mine, helping the planet, ecosystems, and investing in companies who have that vision in mind.
Back to browsers, no issues with FF other than the FTP file transfer one. I have a backup file uploader so I'm using that. Shame FireFtp doesn't work with the new Quantam FF though. It was my favourite uploader and easiest to use by far.
Quote by nicola
A word of warning. I just tried to use FireFTP to transfer some files to a server. It no longer works with Firefox Quantum.
As a browser, it seems excellent.
Quote by Liz
I use FileZilla which is superb as a standalone FTP client. Free and open source.
https://filezilla-project.org/
Quote by nicola
That's the one I downloaded too. Bright minds think alike!
A word of warning about filezilla. Even though I unchecked "install McAfee, change default search engine to Bing etc.", it did change it.
I had to reset IE, FF and Chrome as a result.
=== Not ALL LIVES MATTER until BLACK LIVES MATTER ===
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I'm surrounded by NERDS!
=== Not ALL LIVES MATTER until BLACK LIVES MATTER ===
Quote by noll
My experiences with Firefox Quantum so far are a bit mixed. It seems to crash quite often on Google Maps for instance. And some sites seem a bit slow even, though that may be due to server issues of course. I didn't do a side-by-side comparison. Other than that I'm quite content. Not a real fan of the the dark skin, but that's probably just something to get used to.
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There are three themes built into the browser. You can select a lighter one if you prefer.
Menu (three bars icon) > Customize > Themes (button at the bottom).
=== Not ALL LIVES MATTER until BLACK LIVES MATTER ===
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Well, now with No-script updated for Quantum, I can say I'm still not a fan.
While no-script solved the biggest part of the issues on ad-heavy pages, it still froze up in both of the long sessions on such pages since adding no-script. At least it didn't completely freeze up my system this time. Firefox was dead in the water for at least a minute and a half both times, though.
Ended up closing it and going with Opera for the remainder of both sessions once it defrosted, because Chrome rolls over and dies within 5 minutes on pages choked with ads.
Still opens slow as hell and takes forever for the processes to end once you close it. Zero speed improvement over previous versions on typical pages. Zero speed improvements over Chrome on typical pages.
The latest update to Firefox for Android, on the other hand, has marked improvement in speed and reliability. Things that used to crash Firefox every time on my hardly-top-of-the-line older Samsung tablet work just fine now.
I'm sure they'll break it with the next release in a few days. That seems to be what Firefox and Chrome have both been consistently good about since going to this constant update scheme. Every other update is a memory-leaking dumpster fire.
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Have you thought about trying uBlock Origin?
Quote by JonoX
I tried Firefox Quantum and didn't like it. It's slower than Google Chrome and importing my bookmarks was not easy to set up. So I deleted it. I've been a webmaster since the early 90s, so I've tried all of the browsers: Mosaic, IE, Netscape, Safari, Firefox, and now Google Chrome and it is by far the best browser I've ever used. And I've used them on Mac OS and Windows. I've designed hundreds of web pages and dozens of websites and I always use several browsers to verify my work.
=== Not ALL LIVES MATTER until BLACK LIVES MATTER ===
Quote by JonoX
I tried Firefox Quantum and didn't like it. It's slower than Google Chrome and importing my bookmarks was not easy to set up. So I deleted it. I've been a webmaster since the early 90s, so I've tried all of the browsers: Mosaic, IE, Netscape, Safari, Firefox, and now Google Chrome and it is by far the best browser I've ever used. And I've used them on Mac OS and Windows. I've designed hundreds of web pages and dozens of websites and I always use several browsers to verify my work.
Quote by Magical_felix
look, to be fair... you claiming youre a WEBMASTER and having trouble setting up your bookmarks in a new browser is like a GODDAMN iron chef claiming they can't make a grilled cheese in a new kitchen.
You can’t truly call yourself peaceful unless you are capable of violence. If you’re not capable of violence, you’re not peaceful. You’re harmless.
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And I've worked in IT for as long and done some web mastering as part of that. So what. I remember using text-based browsers. So what? Argument from authority is a logical fallacy.
I've been a Chrome guy for a few years now and Quantum has pretty put FF on a equal footing in my experience. On my home machines, at least, it is as fast as Chrome, faster on some sites. Both are good browsers but neither is flawless (a Chrome bug forced me to FF on one of our home machines, for instance). I haven't tried importing bookmarks since FF and Chrome on the machine where I would do it both have basically the same set of bookmarks so it's kind of pointless. If you like Chrome better, use it. Some of us are clearly having a different experience. In the end, if a user uses either of them instead of the insecure crapshoot that is Internet Explorer, I'm a happy ape.
BTW, if you're so experienced, you would likely realize that typing in large bold text doesn't make you look more authoritative to most of us. It makes you look cranky and arrogant.
You can’t truly call yourself peaceful unless you are capable of violence. If you’re not capable of violence, you’re not peaceful. You’re harmless.
