OK, So How Do You Actually...

[ameerat42]

Of course we/they are.

Anyway, there's still no solution to the Chrome problem. Maybe there isn't one
If that's the case I'm OK, and will just delete any History manually.

[John King]

Am, if you burrow down in settings/advanced/clear browsing data/advanced (!!) Time range, you MIGHT be able to do what you want to do ...

A 'Clear Browsing Data on Exit' tick box would seem to be a simpler approach .

[ameerat42]

I did just that, JK, - to no avil.

Such a simple thing to implement, and I bet they even removed it on purpse!

[Tannin]

I really hope you guys are wrong regarding FF reaching the end of its tether.

Sadly, we are not. Some years ago, a braindead nutcase faction took over the management of Firefox development. Firefox was no longer the most popular browser in the world at this time - Google had been shoving Chrome down people's throats with unlimited marketing funds and malware-inspired download scams such as, for example, bribing Adobe to give users pre-ticked Chrome downloads when all they wanted was a routine Flash Player update. Despite its significantly more user-friendly design, Firefox was now playing second fiddle to the dumbed-down, technically inferior Chrome, but it was a close second and a strong product.

So what did the meatheads at Firefox Central do? They started a deliberate campaign to dumb down Firefox and make it look and work like Chrome. They made many unwanted changes, including a moronic new user interface called "Australis". Users didn't like it, and power users hated it like poison. So what happened? Firefox uses all over the world said "If all Firefox is giving me now is a second-rate copy of Chrome, I'll just use real Chrome and be done with it." It gets worse: the morons have now permanently broken the one single main reason loyal Firefox users stick with the product: add-ins. As a result of all these idiotic management decisions, Firefox market share has rotted like a bad tooth. One third of all the web-active computers in the world used to run Firefox. Now it's 6.5% and still sinking fast.

Those Australis-loving, Firefox wrecking morons need to have their unmentionables taken to with a rusty knife. (Assuming they have any, which I doubt.) It was a great browser. Best in the world. And they killed it. 6% and still going down.

Firefox is dead.

[ameerat42]

But it still has about:config, which Chrome does not (seem) to have the likes of.

[Geoff Port]

Sadly, we are not. Some years ago, a braindead nutcase faction took over the management of Firefox development. Firefox was no longer the most popular browser in the world at this time - Google had been shoving Chrome down people's throats with unlimited marketing funds and malware-inspired download scams such as, for example, bribing Adobe to give users pre-ticked Chrome downloads when all they wanted was a routine Flash Player update. Despite its significantly more user-friendly design, Firefox was now playing second fiddle to the dumbed-down, technically inferior Chrome, but it was a close second and a strong product.

So what did the meatheads at Firefox Central do? They started a deliberate campaign to dumb down Firefox and make it look and work like Chrome. They made many unwanted changes, including a moronic new user interface called "Australis". Users didn't like it, and power users hated it like poison. So what happened? Firefox uses all over the world said "If all Firefox is giving me now is a second-rate copy of Chrome, I'll just use real Chrome and be done with it." It gets worse: the morons have now permanently broken the one single main reason loyal Firefox users stick with the product: add-ins. As a result of all these idiotic management decisions, Firefox market share has rotted like a bad tooth. One third of all the web-active computers in the world used to run Firefox. Now it's 6.5% and still sinking fast.

Those Australis-loving, Firefox wrecking morons need to have their unmentionables taken to with a rusty knife. It was a great browser. Best in the world. And they killed it. 6% and still going down.

Firefox is dead.

Well thanks for that wonderful explanation Tannin.
Just made my day.


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[Tannin]

Not really: many of the most useful options don't work anymore. Try, for example, adjusting your tab close button position. That's been impossible without add-ins since the Australis disaster in 2015. And now they have broken the add-in system so you can't do it at all - except by ditching Firefox completely and using something superior, such as PaleMoon or SeaMonkey.

[ameerat42]

I have Pale Moon. It's from (nearly) the same crowd. Might get into it more

[Gazza]

So, doesn't PornHub have an option that clears history on exit?...asking for a friend (lol...)

[ameerat42]

I don't know why, Gazza. -- Just always did it as a habit.
But in cases of computer being used by others it would be good to have.

I guess I just see it as a basic thing to be able to do

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--And clean out the temp files each time

[landyvlad]

So several months after the previous post in this thread... where does Firefox sit now? Has it been improved / gotten worse ?

Plenty of people are still telling me its better than Chrome, but I'm struggling to figure out how. (aside, of course, from ethically).

I've read the following but there is a lot of fence-sitting going on.

http://www.itpro.co.uk/web-browsers/...microsoft-edge


This one talks about FF Quantum (is that the same as Australis?) https://techhundred.com/2018/02/05/f...hrome-vs-edge/

so does this and calls it a redesign and says its a very positive step (which sounds like spin to me) https://www.digitaltrends.com/comput...afari-vs-edge/


This one lists many more Cons for FF than it does for Chrome and highlights that Mozilla have had their own 'ethics' issues too....
https://www.slant.co/versus/5225/522...ozilla-firefox

[ameerat42]

I use it all the time. Lost a few (for me) handy add-ons, but replaced some and... manage.
I like it much better than Chrome for its accessibility/ease of doing/finding/controlling things.
(But I'll probably have a good square and rant about it next "major update")

[Tannin]

Firefox Australia was where they wrecked the user interface.

Firefox Quantum is where they broke all the add-ons - in particular, the one you use to fix the wrecked interface.

Firefox Next is the one where they make it spy on you the same way Chrome does. FF Next hasn't been announced yet, but any fool can see which way the wind is blowing.

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PS: any review that regards Edge as a browser good enough to compare to any of the real ones isn't worth reading.

[ameerat42]

Thanks for the forecast, Weatherman

[Colin B]

I run Windows 7 and use cCrome as my default browser.

The easiest way to delete history (and leave no traces) is to use the settings to dump all history, cookies etc on exit.

Here is the litany:

Click the three dots in the top right hand corner which opens the toolbox, hover over "History" and click "settings" in the subsidiary menu which opens. Or you can go straight to "setting near the bottom.

Click the downward pointing arrow labelled "advanced" at the bottom of this page which opens the "privacy and security" menu.

Click on "Clear Browsing Data" to open another menu which enables you to have Chrome clean up all history, cookies and other junk on exit.

I have done this and find that if I close my browser then re-open it and check my history there is nothing there so I guess it must be a permanent setting. I also have CC Cleaner clean up my computer after I close my browsers , mainly to avoid accumulating a lot of useless electronic "fluff" on my machine.

If I want visit sites which are , shall we say, not safe for work I click the three dots and open an "incognito" window which, theoretically anyway, leaves no electronic breadcrumbs to show where I have been although I would bet there is some clever socks somewhere who could beat that.

For all my criminal activties I prefer to rely on face to face communication.

[ameerat42]

Strange! That's exactly what I did, but it did not play
I will go through it again soon and see if it's changed its mind.