Comment by mdeeks | Hacker News Reader

Comment by mdeeks | Hacker News Reader

Chrome used to be a lot faster years back so I switched. Firefox sadly has never given me a reason to switch back. Chrome is still fast and generally easy to use. (Maybe others here can give me good reasons to switch?)

Chrome also has some obscure features I rely on that Firefox does not have (or just doesn't do well):

  * Firefox does not support Touch ID on macOS. I can't actually log into a lot of my sites

  * I can't create a desktop app version of a site (Chrome > Tools > Create Shortcut as window). I use this to put google meet, jira, and some other internal tools as dedicated dock apps.

  * Chrome lets you run a work and personal profile in different windows. It's just a cmd+` away. It also remembers which profile you had viewed last and opens links in the right one. I didn't like multi-account containers in Firefox because I always had to select the right profile when I click a link.

I understand your dislike of the default workflow for Firefox profiles. Fortunately you can launch them from the CLI, so I usually creat an alias to my alt profiles then launch the browser from the shell.

Also Firefox Multi-Account Containers do things that Chrome profiles can't do at all.

the opposite is true, too, since "Clear History" in Chrome Profiles behaves correctly and (AFAIK) is scoped just to that Profile unlike our container friend: https://github.com/mozilla/multi-account-containers/issues/3...

I still use them because combined with https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/open-url-in-c... ( https://github.com/honsiorovskyi/open-url-in-container ) is a game changer for my workflow but it does make me sad that issue has been open for so long

To my understanding: the built-in "Junk" container auto-clears history, as well as "In Private" boundaries apply per usual for any container you open "In Private". Containers that I truly need to regularly clear history on, divorced from the rest of my Profile go into their own Firefox Profile. MAC is on top of/in addition to Firefox Profiles.

Multi-Account Container nicely reduces the need to juggle different Firefox Profiles, but it doesn't eliminate it. (I certainly still use a mixture of both for a myriad of reasons.)

If something requires CLI to work in a reasonable way it is a failure.

The lack of support for TouchID for WebAuthn has been bugging me to no end. Making WebAuthn more accessible is such a big deal to help stop phishing. It also looks like there’s no priority for moving forward with passkeys.

I’m still using Firefox on both desktop and mobile but this is the issue that has me doubting my choice going forward.

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