On Mon, 13 Jan 2025, Daniel Harris wrote:
Hello
I am a very long time happy firefox user using debian stable, but what on
earth is going on with firefox lately. It is terrible. So slow and why is
it not possible to have 2 separate instances anymore.
It's not possible with chromium either. I have two separate X servers
running on two separate machines but displaying a desktop from a single
machine (two window managers running)
It's, AFAICT, impossible to run a chromium based browser on both window
managers at the same time. Any attempt to start the browser on the second
wm just results in the profile picker appearing on the X server that
already has a browser displaying.
I used to use firefox exclusively, but gave up because, basically, it
seems they just copy every bad idea from chromium just a bit later. I
might as well deal with it sooner rather than later.
(Although, at work I've just switched to firefox due to the manifest v3
stuff, so I guess I might eventually switch back at home too - probably
just in time for firefox to decide they're going to copy that move
too...)
Tim.
