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nachtigallon Reasons to Switch from Chrome to Firefox

Autoformfill is partly enabled already in Nightly and will hopefully ship sometime in the future. https://blog.nightly.mozilla.org/2017/05/23/preview-form-aut... So I guess credit card information (sensible) is maybe not in scope at the moment.

nachtigallon Reasons to Switch from Chrome to Firefox

You might want to give Nightly a try (upcoming Firefox 56) which improved a lot thanks to Quantom Flow project. I updated from Firefox Dev Edition (FF 55) to Nightly and the boast was obvious (there's also been a good boast recently in FF 54 thanks to multi-e10s).

e.g. see the SpeedometerV2 benchmark differences at https://ehsanakhgari.org/blog/2017-06-23/quantum-flow-engine... So there is progress and thanks to Quantum the best is hopefully yet to come with the integration of Servo components

nachtigallon Reasons to Switch from Chrome to Firefox

You can also create new profiles by hand. See sibling answer.

nachtigallon Reasons to Switch from Chrome to Firefox

I totally feel your pain. You might want to share your use case at https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1255740 which is the bug for creating different profiles by default.

There's many people having the same problem, so here's the solution for doing it manually: https://superuser.com/questions/679797/how-to-run-firefox-ni...

nachtigallon Google Will Stop Reading Your Emails for Gmail Ads

Seriously, there's private, ad-free mail for 1$ a months: https://posteo.de/en/ or https://mailbox.org/en/

nachtigallon Powerful New Additions to the CSS Grid Inspector in Firefox Nightly

autoprefixer should be able to handle this: https://github.com/postcss/autoprefixer#disabling

> grid: true will enable Grid Layout prefixes for IE.

nachtigallon Firefox 54: E10S-Multi, WebExtension APIs, CSS Clip-Path

> switch to Firefox earlier this year ... I couldn't tolerate the poor performance

Everyone still seeing poor performance in Firefox 54, I personally would recommend to do a Refresh: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/refresh-firefox-reset-a... because usually it is an old add-on or wierd setting that causes it. At least it was in my case, and after Refresh firefox was running very fast

nachtigallon Firefox 54: E10S-Multi, WebExtension APIs, CSS Clip-Path

In my case doing a "refresh" did help: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/refresh-firefox-reset-a...

nachtigallon Firefox 54: E10S-Multi, WebExtension APIs, CSS Clip-Path

You might want to install the Add-on Compatibility Reporter available from https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/add-on-compat...

nachtigallon Svgi – An SVG inspection tool

Great tool. As browser try to improve their Inspector for inpecting SVG, I guess such a tool could be useful.

Discussion about this for the Firefox Devtools here: https://discourse.mozilla-community.org/t/better-svg-editing... Maybe you want to chim in with suggestions ;)

nachtigallon WebAssembly: Mozilla Won

> but it is interesting to see a counter-argument to the Mozilla/Firefox just apes Chrome story

I think looking at Quantum (https://wiki.mozilla.org/Quantum) and Phonton (https://www.ghacks.net/2017/03/31/firefox-photon-new-design-...) this becomes even more clear.

nachtigallon AnyRoom – A self-hosted, Twilio-based system for temporary conference calls

How does Jitsi Meet compare to https://talky.io/ concerning stability, UX, ease of use etc?

nachtigallon The scourge of web analytics

There are also many plugins for various CMS for Shariff, e.g. for WordPress I can highly recommend https://wordpress.org/plugins/shariff/

nachtigallon The scourge of web analytics

FWIW for non-tracking share buttons, there's also Shariff: https://github.com/heiseonline/shariff

nachtigallon What's New in Create React App

I would be interested if anybody has tried both CRE and Neutrino.js (https://neutrino.js.org/) and could share their experience with Neutrino? Was it worth it? I'm thinking of using Neutrino.js for my next project (because with CRE you're running against walls if you need just one simple customization from the given defaults, which means to eject)

nachtigallon Consider a Dell Optiplex FX160 Instead of a Raspberry Pi

You could add a comment to the doc like others did.

nachtigallon Firefox 57: new Photon design screenshots

And here are some first images for Photon on Android: https://www.soeren-hentzschel.at/firefox-android/erste-bilde... (article is in German, but the images will do ;)

nachtigallon Opera is Reborn

> it's vivaldi

which is, well, another google chrome skin ;)

nachtigallon Ngrok: Secure tunnels to localhost

Thanks for creating ngrok. Sharing my experience and use case:

I tried ngrok (and localtunnel) two months ago to show a localhost WordPress site. Both failed because WordPress uses absolute links to reference css, js and img assets.

So the site was visible under whatever.ngrok.com but the assets where still linked to localhost. I read the FAQ at https://ngrok.com/faq#wordpress and tried all the mentioned plugins plus some other hacks. None did work. In the end I wasted almost one day.

I ended up renting a Simple PHP Hosting for 2 days to which I cloned the site. Which was also half a day but only cost me 2 € (site was online only for 2 days or so) and in the end, it did work.

nachtigallon Ask HN: Django hosting recommendations?

Gandi Simple Hosting for python plus DB starts at 4 bucks a month and comes together with Mail and a Varnish cache: https://www.gandi.net/hosting/simple?language=python&db=mysq... 8 €/$ if you need https.

nachtigallon Vivaldi browser v1.8 released, with calendar-style browsing history

> but also how I got there and where I went

The tails project experiments with this in Servo and browser.html:

https://medium.freecodecamp.com/lossless-web-navigation-with...

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13518919

nachtigallon Firefox 52 released

I think this is in Nightly and now Firefox Developer Edition (54) behing a pref: https://twitter.com/mozhacks/status/821005161602646016

nachtigallon Firefox 52 released

Here's a more hacker oriented write-up at https://hacks.mozilla.org/2017/03/firefox-52-introducing-web... (published today). Discussion (if it comes) at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13812145

nachtigallon Firefox 52 released

Only Android or Desktop, because iOS does not allow other rendering engine like Gecko, only its own webkit.

nachtigallon Firefox 52 released

There's now also a Firefox Testpilot experiment for container tabs: https://testpilot.firefox.com/experiments/containers

nachtigallon Firefox 52 released

And the Firefox Devtools now also have an excellent tools for learning, visualizing and debugging CSS Grids: https://hacks.mozilla.org/2016/12/css-grid-and-grid-highligh...

Well done, new feature coming along with Devtools for it.

nachtigallon Containers Come to Firefox Test Pilot

> Containers describes the implementation, not the user experience or benefit.

This. Sure, "contextual identities" sounds too academic, but who knows, maybe Containers (as a word) will become as ubiquious as Tabs are today (very common word in German today): Hey, dude, open a container ;)

nachtigallon Containers Come to Firefox Test Pilot

I do find the name – "containers" – a bit confusing. "Contextual identities" would seem like a better fit, because that's what it will be used for.

I am reading this name also on other places, surprised Mozilla sticked with "containers":

* https://blog.mozilla.org/tanvi/2016/06/16/contextual-identit...

* https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/Contextual_Identity_Projec...

nachtigallon Google Hangouts temporarily won’t support phone/video calls on Firefox

How does it compare to https://talky.io/? I'm looking for a Skype/Hangouts alternative (for talking, chat and Screensharing)