Firefox profiles are separate Firefox “accounts” with things like bookmarks, browsing history, etc. They’re entirely local, and they’re useful for keeping stuff separate.

This change is a redesign of how you interact with it, making it much easier. You probably weren’t aware about it because it’s hard to access, hence the reason for the redesign.

Yet one so many competitors fail to clear.

Using their logic, accessibility tools also violate copyright.

Yeah, that’s how bugs tend to go. If they’re hard to reproduce, they tend to get de-prioritized.

For the record, I’ve had similar issues w/ Chromium bugs, which have been really frustrating in our automated testing pipelines.

I haven’t run into any significant issues on Firefox (primary platforms are Linux, macOS, and Android), so I stick w/ it.

Mind linking the bug?

And AFAIK, tab isolation still isn’t a thing in Firefox for Android. It’s frustrating.

Hmm, I tend to have 100+ on desktop and 10+ on my phone, and I haven’t seen anything similar to what you mentioned.

Do you have a million addons or something?

I haven’t had that experience at all, and I use it macOS at work, Linux at home, and my Pixel 8 everywhere else. I did have a few issues on my old phone when lots of tabs were open, and I attributed it to running out of RAM.

Could you perhaps be low on RAM? If Firefox is your main, Chromium could work better in a one-off situation if it only has one or two tabs open.

Try restarting Firefox the next time it happens and see if it recurs when fresh. If it works fine after a restart, you’re probably running out of RAM.

You need to be more specific. “Intel” can mean anything from a 90s chip to something released recently.

Yeah, it’s a weird feature parity miss from Android that’s not related to not being able to have their own engine. I hope it gets implemented soon.

1. Works on Android, and I love it
2. I solve this with pinned tabs on desktop, I don’t need it on my phone
3. What’s the purpose? Why not just put windows side-by-side; Windows and Linux desktops have shortcuts, and I think macOS does too (I use Rectangle on my work mac instead)
4. That’s odd, because horizontal tabs hide w/ full screen

I hope this helps!

Certainly you’d be okay with certain pages using it, and you could hopefully disable it everywhere so you don’t see the prompt if you really don’t want it.

I honestly don’t care if browsers add or remove AI, as long as it’s opt-in and doesn’t cost resources when it’s off.

Yup, look for “user agent switcher.” This isn’t something you should try to DIY in the settings, because user agents are complex and a small deviation can mean looking like Chrome or being unintelligible.

The user agent tells the page what the browser is, so the page can tell whether you’re runnit Chrome, Firefox, Safari, etc. The intent is for the page to change behavior depending on the browser since each have different capabilities (web standards change quickly). Unfortunately, pages rarely get updated in a timely fashion when browsers implement web standards so the engine check is frequently inaccurate.

Changing the user agent means changing what web pages think you’re running. If a page uses an optimized API on Chrome and a slower one on Firefox because Firefox was slower to implement it, then you can get a speedup by saying your Firefox is Chrome. Some pages refuse to run unless it’s a specific browser, so lying can make those pages work.

I hope that makes sense.

My phone has a gesture for back and refresh, I’ve never used “share” (I just copy the URL from the bar), and I only very rarely use the forward option. To open a new tab, I hit the tabs and then the new tab button (at the bottom). I put the URL bar on the bottom so everything is pretty close.

I find it very economic.

A settings menu is useful. What’s the issue?

Command line is the definition of simple. It’s not easy, but it is simple: you type a command and it runs the command, that’s it. Knowing what commands to run is what makes is it difficult, but the interface is incredibly simple.

I see two issues here:

• more “dunking”
• awful takes getting more attention

Agreed 100%.

As someone with some unpopular opinions that I think are backed by good data, I get down votes on a number of my comments. I find that changing the way I present ideas goes a long way toward changing perception. My natural way of presenting things is to give the TLDR at the start and justify it after, but a lot of people don’t read past the TLDR. So when presenting something controversial, I’ll change my tactic to reference something popular and demonstrate some tweaks I’d make to arrive at my idea.

For example, I’m a fan of a Negative Income Tax. Most people don’t know what that is, and I used to start by saying it could replace welfare, which is unpopular (I have good reasons to want that end goal). Instead, I pitch it as UBI, but not going to wealthy people, and that’s a lot more popular, amd then down the thread I can show how it could make welfare more accessible (i.e. replace it) by eliminating the complex application process.

If I didn’t see downvotes, I wouldn’t be able to make that correction.