The tinfoil hat is real. Have fun with Opera/Maxthon
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Chrome and IE/Edge aren't options
So basically there's nothing left but Opera.
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yeah they've been opera services on top of chrome engines for a few years now.
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Pretty sure if he does not trust microsoft or google he won't trust the chinese ownership of opera.
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The guys who started Opera left the boat and now they're on this new project called : Vivaldi
I personally use it as my 2nd browser (Firefox remain the best for me, it's just a bit slow nowadays) and it works pretty well for my use. The only negative i would say is that it's not entirely Open Source, but if you used Opera it was closed anyway.
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What about those browsers touted by Internet security software companies, like Comodo? I haven't bothered, but your list has been whittled down a lot already.
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i dont think there is a browser that wont piss you off eventually
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I got fed up of Firefox too and moved to Chrome. I liked it at first, but now I hate it.
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May I ask why? I don't feel like Chrome has changed much if the five or so years I have been using it, but I only use it for standard web browsing.
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At first I liked how lightweight it seemed and the page load was faster than in Firefox, so I sticked to it.
After a few months and updates, it became much unreliable, slow, and unstable. It has gone through different periods of different erratic behaviors without me doing anything, so I guess updates play an important role. I experienced a sudden out of memory behaviour for more than two weeks when watching YouTube videos, pages sometime take more than 30 seconds to load for no apparent reason while in Firefox everything is smooth (so no Internet connection issue), some other times page won't render. As stated, too unreliable for my taste.
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Thanks for the reply. The only issue I have that may or may not be related is that sometimes my office monitor blinks when I'm using Chrome on my laptop. It doesn't always happen, but when it does, it goes black screen for 2-3 seconds and is beyond annoying. I'll try with Edge since that's pre-installed (boo!) but might give Firefox another try to see if that resolves the problem. It doesn't blink when I have Chrome minimized.
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Sounds more like a GPU/driver issue. Do you get an error popup? The GTX460M on my laptop is glitchy and occasionally does just what you described but when the screen comes back on a balloon notification appears from the windows tray. It says "Display driver nvlddmkm stopped responding and has successfully recovered." It's logged in the windows event viewer as Error ID 4101. Other applications such as VLC and sometimes games cause this too. The issue seems somewhat common online across multiple nvidia cards and fixes range from under/overclocking the card to changing windows registry values. Nothing worked completely for me but I minimized it's occurrence by disabling windows aero and hardware acceleration in applications if they had it (such as firefox). I have 2 desktop variants of the GTX460 as well and they both experience the same issue but less frequently.
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It's a work laptop, so don't think it's a GPU issue. Only happens when hooked up to my monitor at the office. Screen goes black periodically, but the monitor doesn't shut off or go to sleep. Don't think it's a driver issue ... looked at driver updates for my laptop and the docking station. And when it happens, it only happens when the browser is up ... and stops when the browser is minimized.
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yea same here,
at some point fire fox became very buggy and i moved to chrome as well and still using it
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Pale Moon and Waterfox are the 2 best alternatives if you want to stay on a Firefox-like environment.
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Google can't be trusted? LOLOLOLO If you believe that, no one can be trusted.
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Is this comment serious? Because these LOLs would be much more appropriate if OP actually thought Google can be trusted.
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Opera would be my only suggestion, other than one of the numerous forks of Firefox.
Personally I haven't found Firefox removing any options, but Mozilla do seem to love shuffling where everything can be found making it a real pain to find where they've moved options to sometimes.
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http://www.ghacks.net/2016/11/24/firefox-will-only-support-web-extensions-by-the-end-of-2017/
Many addons will stop working by the end of the year, unless they are remade into web extensions.
And some of them cannot be remade into webextensions, because they rely on features that are not available in web extensions (those that change how web pages behave might work, but those that change how firefox behaves will likely not)
"Many addons" does not mean the majority of course, and you might not get affected, but I know a lot of users for which this is a big problem that will make them switch to pale moon
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Ehm, am I missing something from the screenshot you posted? Because all the results shown there are having the term "loot" in their URL, so it works like you've set it to be. :o
Or are you confusing URLs with domains (which are a part of the URL)?
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Just looked at the image and it looks like you're right. FireFox just sees "loot" in the URL of all the sites, not in the title of the pages.
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+1. OP makes wrong assumptions. Everything shown in the screenshot is how it should be.
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No, it's supposed to be configured to search start of string as typed in URL only.
See in this example all the results are legit except the middle one. It only has "warfra" in the title, so I don't want it to show. It shouldn't show, but it does. Firefox's latest versions are deactivating options that were valid in older versions.
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I'm using Firefox Developer Edition - so far it's more predictable and configurable then main branch.
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Dunno, I have Firefox, Chrome and Opera installed and updated and FF still is the best option of the 3. Considering that IE/edge and Safari aren't and will never be good options all you have left is to dive into the vast pool of lesser known browsers, but many of those are forks of either chrome or firefox so... good luck.
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i moved to cyberfox 2-3 months ago as suggested by a friend and it works perfectly.
way faster than stupid firefox, no restrictions for extensions and more tech stuff i don't even know/care about xD
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i switched to chrome from firefox for the same reasons you're looking to move away from firefox. i still can't believe they locked the reload button to the right of the url bar and you need an extension to get it on the left where it belongs. it's been a few years i think and chrome hasn't made any weird annoying changes like firefox was doing seemingly every release when i switched.
i get you don't want to use something from google or microsoft (by the way, what do you use for search?) so switching to chrome (or probably even chromium) isn't for you. i'd say your best bet is one of the custom firefox forks people have suggested here. they will likely be a little behind firefox proper in terms of new rendering features and possibly bug fixes. i don't have any experience with any myself as i just use actual firefox to test my web development.
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I've used Opera almost from version 1.1 and can count on 1 hand the number of sites that I've had problems with.
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Yeah, I was one of the last North American based AOL tier 2 tech support agents before AOL became India Online ...
I wonder if they were smart enough to remember that they bought Netscape ... If they did redevelop it, they might be sitting on a product worth something in the new browser wars.
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Man, it used to be so customisable, but every version removes more options and forces more irritating crap that takes me ages to "fix" back to how I like it.
At the moment I'm trying to make firefox only show URLs from history in the url bar, but it insists on searching titles as well. There's a browser.urlbar.default.behavior setting in about:config that's supposed to work but I've set it to 17 and it ignores it. http://kb.mozillazine.org/Browser.urlbar.default.behavior
What do people who've gotten sick of Firefox use? Chrome and IE/Edge aren't options ('cos both Google and Microsoft can't be trusted).
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