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Kelteseth ◴[] No.41809748[source]
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/new/
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varun_ch ◴[] No.41809875[source]
Chrome to Firefox is a relatively easy switch, especially for those that don’t depend on Google sync. The main sources of friction for me were the lack of a good profile switching UI (solved with a browser extension that mimics the Chrome menu), and weird security requirements for homemade extensions (IIRC if you want to have the extension persist after restarting Firefox, you need to sign the extension, which is a pain)

For users switching from Arc, there is no good alternative, but Firefox with Sidebery and custom CSS comes close.

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starky ◴[] No.41810677[source]
I've tried to switch from Vivaldi to Floorp and there is some things that Firefox does that drive me absolutely nuts.

The main one is the behaviour of pinned tabs. Pinning in Firefox turns it into an icon that is harder to hit and doesn't even protect it from closing. This makes them essentially useless, they should be moved to the front of the tab bar and be protected from closing.

The second is that when you use vertical tabs the tab bar acts like a title bar instead of a separate entity. This means you can't double click to create a new tab, and trying to drag a tab often results in the entire window moving. I have to use Tree style tabs and disable the normal tab bar completely to prevent this.

There are also things that I don't like such as how downloads are handled and I've has issues with my session tabs being saved properly.

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1. roca ◴[] No.41817124[source]
> they should be moved to the front of the tab bar and be protected from closing.

Firefox pinned tabs are moved to the LHS of the tab bar, they have no close button and ctrl-W doesn't close them. How much more do you want them to be protected from closing?

This is actually one thing where Firefox is clearly better than Chrome ... Chrome pinned tabs close with ctrl-W which is really easy to do accidentally.

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2. starky ◴[] No.41845480[source]
Middle click still closes tabs which is my most frequent way to close tabs.

As I mentioned Vivaldi is my Chromium based browser of choice, and it is far better in the handling of pinned tabs. They go up to a separate section at the start of the tab list without reducing in size, and then they absolutely cannot be closed without unpinning the tab first