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by jchw 2551 days ago
The way they’re handling cookies may be just be strict enough that it can break security measures on some sites. Unfortunately, lots of websites have come to rely on things that maybe should’ve never been features (like third party cookies, for example.)

Just out of curiosity, have you tried Firefox? I know it’s not perfect, but with minimal tweaking I think it’s very competitive.
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ShirsenduK 2551 days ago
Yes, Firefox is good for browsing but as a developer who has to work on the frontend, the ecosystem isn't there in Firefox. Many of the framework debugging tools for React, Redux, etc. don't work well in Firefox.
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jchw 2551 days ago
I will agree the devtools are not always as polished, but actually React and Redux debugging tools have worked fine for me. I have these installed:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/react-devtool...

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/reduxdevtools...

...And I don't really recall many issues.

Ever since WebExtensions, there's not really a good reason for the devtools to be much worse on Firefox.

If you have used these extensions and have issues, I'd love to hear them. I've done React/Redux dev on both and I don't notice things working significantly better in Chrome. (Admittedly, I haven't done any in a few months.)

The only real thing that gets me now is the lack of being able to inspect WebSocket frames. :(

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ShirsenduK 2551 days ago
Thanks for clarifying! I should give Firefox a try again, when I tried last time it wasn't good enough. Chrome's devtools had many features of timing and performance which were absent or not good enough last time I tried.
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agumonkey 2551 days ago
Show your tweaks.
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jchw 2550 days ago
I don't do anything too special, no userstyles for me or anything like that. I generally just do the following:

- Remove the spacers next to the address bar. (I prefer having a huge address bar.)

- Install uBlock Origin, Bitwarden, and a few other extensions (GitHub Notifier, for example.) I don't use Firefox Sync right now, so I do this manually per install.

- Disable "Ctrl+Tab cycles through tabs in recently used order." I prefer the old Ctrl+Tab behavior where Ctrl+Tab moves right and Ctrl+Shift+Tab moves left.

- Set search to Duck Duck Go.

- Disable all Home content except Search.

- Disable browser, download, form and password history. Tweak content blocking settings a bit. (I generally 'block third party trackers' but I aspire to block all third party cookies if that ever becomes supported by most websites.)

Sometimes I also tweak other random things, like disabling the clipboard APIs entirely to avoid sites that attempt to add garbage to the end of copies. But realistically, these are the things that I usually keep the same. On portable devices I sometimes also enable permanent private mode, to keep even less sensitive data in storage.

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