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Finally migrated back to Firefox today after a multi year user of Chrome. (kbin.social)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by I_Miss_Daniel@kbin.social to c/firefox@lemmy.ml

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Finally migrated back to Firefox today after a multi year user of Chrome.

What pushed me over the edge? Most of my app icons (keep, pulse, calender, whatsapp) stopped opening in their own windows again.

I had to install the PWA extension in Firefox to get that working again, and it's going to be a slight hassle having to copy and paste URLs from all those windows, but I'm tired of fixing the task bar icons.

Could've gone to Edge since it would work out of the box, but I like Firefox. (except for no native PWA support.)

Edit: found I can right click links in the PWA instances and use the send to other device option to open them in my main Firefox window.

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[–] soniquest@lemmy.studio 37 points 2 years ago (23 children)

Oh man time for my little rant. Long time Firefox supporter and still use it on desktop, but I had to uninstall on Android. It reloads the tab every time I switch out and back to it. It just kills me. Especially since I pay for Kagi search, and it's nearly doubling my search count by reloadng all the damn time. So now I'm using Privacy Browser on Android, and it's great, bit I'd rather be on Firefox. There are threads asking for a fix from years ago and it's still a problem

[–] Boinketh@lemm.ee 10 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Does Kagi give better results than Google? If so, how consistently?

[–] soniquest@lemmy.studio 10 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Honestly, it's hard to say. I'm using it partly on principle as part of degoogling. I will say it's ahead of all the other alternatives I've tried (DDG, Qwant, Startpage, Mojeek etc).

You don't get Google suggestions and that's moslty a good thing IMO although I sometimes miss getting a currency conversion or dictionary item answered without having to visit a site. Generally the results are as good as Google but Wikipedia or something is more likely to be top rather than buried under some spammy results.

You can try 100 searches or something for free, give it a go

[–] xill47@lemm.ee 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It has currency conversion, but it expects specific format

[–] soniquest@lemmy.studio 1 points 2 years ago

Nice, thanks!

[–] Boinketh@lemm.ee 4 points 2 years ago

IIRC Startpage is just an alternative frontend for Google, so it being better than Startpage would make it better than Google.

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