Sure, a pretty coat of paint will attract my attention, but it’s the features that will keep my interest. Not only was Firefox no longer a battery hog, but it was gorgeous ( Figure A).įigure A Firefox 89 running on an M1 MacBook Pro. After installing Firefox 89 on the 2020 M1 MacBook Pro, I realized that things had changed. I’d given up using any browser but Safari on macOS, because of how quickly all other browsers drained the battery of my previous MacBook. SEE: 5 Linux server distributions you should be using (TechRepublic Premium) What’s ironic about this is I was convinced to switch back to Firefox as my default, not after installing Firefox on my System76 Thelio desktop (running Pop!_OS Linux), but after installing it on my M1 MacBook Pro. They cleaned up the open source browser’s act and gave it new life. In fact, the Opera take on Workspaces is so far beyond what all other browsers offer, there’s no telling what kind of hurdles I was willing to overcome to keep working with that proprietary browser.
Opera does Workspaces to perfection, like no other browser. Why? One feature, and one feature alone- Workspaces. Also, media displayed on some social media sites refused to play without a fix.Įven with those headaches, I stuck with it. For the past few months, when working with a document in Google Docs, it would randomly devour system resources, thereby bringing the browser (and the desktop) to a screeching halt. I’m not going to lie: on Linux, I’ve been using the Opera Browser as my default for some time-even though the browser brings along with it a few frustrations. Master Linux and Docker before the next Linux adoption boomĬhecklist: Essential support sites for Linux admins Why your open-source project definitely should not be the next Kubernetes The future of Linux: Fedora project leader Matthew Miller weighs in Image: Mozilla Open source: Must-read coverage Find out what about this latest iteration helped it to return as Jack Wallen's browser of choice. Mozilla's Firefox 89 is a return to form for the open source browser. Firefox 89: Mozilla brought its open source browser back from the ashes
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