I recently switched from Google Chrome to Mozilla Firefox as my main desktop browser. Here’s what I did to improve upon Firefox’ sometimes not ideal defaults. There are a couple of reasons why I considered the switch from Chrome to Firefox: A growing uneasy feeling about Google’s approach to user privacy, Manifest v3, Googles’s WebDRM plans, […]
The only one I see as a problem (IMO) is #4 - I wish there was a similar downloads bar, especially because I always clean up the download list after I’m done with it.
After using Firefox for years I’m sure I’d have more problems going back to chromium browsers than migrating to Firefox in the first place. Firefox has a much better support to keyboard navigation when it comes to reopening bookmarks and keyword searches. But it’s good to address these differences and how to work around them.
The only one I see as a problem (IMO) is #4 - I wish there was a similar downloads bar, especially because I always clean up the download list after I’m done with it.
After using Firefox for years I’m sure I’d have more problems going back to chromium browsers than migrating to Firefox in the first place. Firefox has a much better support to keyboard navigation when it comes to reopening bookmarks and keyword searches. But it’s good to address these differences and how to work around them.
Right click on the downloads button and hit “Clear Preview Panel” to clean up the downloads bar.
that doesn’t have the same effect as the “clear downloads” from the download window though