Tell HN: Firefox Is an awesome browser right now

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Arc

#Web Browsers #Customisable Web Browser #Web Development Tools 59 social mentions

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Orion Browser

For my new job, I've switched to using the Orion Browser [1] from Kagi since I was noticing some weird typing lag on my MacBook in Firefox. I still use Firefox at home on Windows, but native vertical tabs in Orion are enough for me to use it full time. It's also handy that it supports both Firefox and Chrome extensions, albeit some features don't fully work (e.g. "Block element" of uBlock Origin doesn't let me choose anything). I'm not a fan of Mozilla currently, but they do have the least bad non-chromium, multiplatform browser out there. [1]: https://browser.kagi.com.

#Web Browsers #Internet #Web Tools 136 social mentions

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Nyxt Browser

Chrome also has objectively better performance (https://www.phoronix.com/news/Firefox-Chrome-109-Benchmarks), especially for 3D performance. I'm sure on modern machines both browsers are more than fast enough, but I'm not quite sure why everyone seems to think firefox is faster. On the other hand, I feel like the nyxt browser (https://nyxt.atlas.engineer) has a spot on HN, its very much like emacs in the sense everything is just Common Lisp you can redefine. Its definitely still considerably slower than chrome and firefox, webkit doesn't perform all too well.

#Web Browsers #Web Development Tools #Web Tools 45 social mentions

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Hacker News Search

"<i>Please don't post insinuations about astroturfing, shilling, bots, brigading, foreign agents and the like. It degrades discussion and is usually mistaken. If you're worried about abuse, email hn@ycombinator.com and we'll look at the data.</i>" https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comment&storyText=false&prefix=true&page=0&query=by:dang%20astroturf.

#Search Engine #Web Search #Internet Search 1904 social mentions

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Finicky

Have you tried making a different desktop entry/shortcut for each Firefox profile and then setting a browser picker as your default browser? - Junction (Linux browser picker): https://github.com/sonnyp/Junction and Browserosaurus (macOS browser picker): https://github.com/will-stone/browserosaurus.

#Project Management #Website Testing #Webapp Testing 21 social mentions