"Works for me" : programmer

[-] lena@gregtech.eu 39 points 5 months ago

I agree that Chrome fucking sucks, but it's disingenuous to call it unoptimized. Chrome and chromium-based browsers are as fast as or faster than Firefox. Although I agree that manifest V3 is horrible to the web as a whole and shouldn't have been created.

[-] Holyhandgrenade@lemmy.world 7 points 5 months ago

It also eats up like 99% of your CPU

[-] Taleya@aussie.zone 5 points 5 months ago

Single browser open? Lemme fire up a dozen .exe processes there.....

[-] lena@gregtech.eu -5 points 5 months ago

Have you used chrome or chromium in the past few years? Source?

[-] Holyhandgrenade@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

I was exaggerating to make a point. But one of the main reasons why I switched to Firefox (about a year ago) was because it was eating up so much of my CPU.

[-] jaybone@lemmy.world 7 points 5 months ago

Their plugins were fucked from the beginning. You never had control of your extensions.

[+] spookex@lemmy.world -26 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

The problem for me is that the built-in translator is too convenient

[-] kurwa@lemmy.world 56 points 5 months ago

Pretty sure Firefox have that too

[-] IronKrill@lemmy.ca 5 points 5 months ago

*For a limited set of languages. Until they add Japanese I won't be getting much use from it, sadly.

[-] Redkey@programming.dev 2 points 5 months ago

I use 10ten (previously Rikuchamp) for Japanese. I don't think it does full translation, but it gives thorough dictionary lookups (from WWWJDIC) as mouseover tooltips. Very useful if you're trying to learn the language, but maybe not so much if you just want to read stuff quickly. I think it's now available for every major browser, but I mostly use it on FF.

[-] Gestrid@lemmy.ca 33 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Firefox has translation now, too, on both mobile and desktop.

And you can optionally add the Google Translate extension to desktop Firefox if you want. (It really is convenient, isn't it?)

And you can always just plug in the URL of whatever page you're trying to translate directly into https://translate.google.com/.

[-] borari@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 5 months ago

Safari also has it built in. This person is just saying shit to say shit I guess.

[-] spookex@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago

AFAIK the built-in translator doesn't support Japanese, which is 99% of translation I need and the extension (which is what is was trying to use before) either requires you to select the text that you want to translate one-by-one or run the whole page through translate.google.com, which doesn't work with any page that requires an account to access or triggers ddos protection on some others.

[-] Gestrid@lemmy.ca 2 points 5 months ago

Yeah, I think Firefox's translation feature is technically still in beta.

[-] Irelephant@lemm.ee 1 points 5 months ago

Real. Only thing i pop microsoft edge open for. Firefox's one is too slow.

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