I switched to Firefox after having been a Chrome user for the longest time and I have not looked back since.

在成为Chrome用户最长时间之后， 我改用了Firefox，此后我再也没有回头。

I typically have a minimum of 30 tabs open at any given time. Undoubtedly, it made Chrome go crazy and consume insane amounts of RAM. Chrome had company, though. I was going crazy too thanks to horizontally arranged tabs. Horizontally arranged tabs are the dumbest thing ever but I will save my rant on this topic for later. Nonetheless, this was one of the primary reasons that drove me to Firefox and holy hell, Firefox is awesome! Read on to find out why.

我通常在任何给定时间至少打开30个标签。 毫无疑问，它使Chrome变得疯狂，并消耗了大量的RAM。 Chrome还是有公司的。 多亏了水平排列的标签，我也发疯了。 水平排列的制表符是迄今为止最愚蠢的事情，但我将在这个主题上保留我的豪言，以备后用。 但是，这是促使我进入Firefox的主要原因之一，而Firefox真棒！ 继续阅读以找出原因。

There are 4 aspects that I will be covering in this article to drive home my point — Customizability, Add-Ons, Security and Privacy, Utility.

在本文中，我将涉及四个方面来阐明我的观点：可定制性，附加组件，安全性和隐私性，实用程序。

Disclaimer: The configurations and add-ons I am mentioning in this article are the ones I use and they are optimized for security and productivity, NOT sheer speed. Some of these extensions do slow down your browser a bit. These are the ones that work best for me and may not be what you need.

免责声明：我在本文中提到的配置和附件是我使用的配置和附件，它们针对安全性和生产力进行了优化，而不是绝对的速度。 其中一些扩展确实会使您的浏览器变慢。 这些是最适合我的，可能不是您所需要的。

Note: The links to all the features, add-ons and themes that I mention in this section are at the end of the article

注意：我在本节中提到的所有功能，附加组件和主题的链接都在 本文 的 结尾 。

安全与隐私 (Security & Privacy)

It goes without saying that Google and privacy are poles apart. Google does everything in its power to extract as much data about you as possible. Chrome is just another medium for Google to do this. Chrome collects an enormous amount of data in the name of ‘improving suggestions and services’ such as your location, search history and site visits. All of this is collected for a reason — Google runs the world’s biggest digital advertising network. The users and their data is what fuels this advertising behemoth. Google sells and buys user data to keep this machine chugging. No doubt, all of this data collection does improve services and suggestions but not everyone would be comfortable with it.

毋庸置疑，Google和隐私权是截然不同的。 Google会竭尽所能，尽可能地提取有关您的数据。 Chrome只是Google做到这一点的另一种媒介。 Chrome以“改善建议和服务”的名义收集了大量数据，例如您的位置，搜索历史记录和网站访问记录。 所有这些都是出于某种原因而收集的-Google运营着世界上最大的数字广告网络。 用户及其数据是推动这一广告巨无霸的动力。 Google买卖用户数据以保持机器的稳定运行。 毫无疑问，所有这些数据收集都确实改善了服务和建议，但并不是每个人都会对此感到满意。

Firefox on the other hand is open source and is a privacy-centric browser. It collects limited data and has no need for buying or selling your data.

另一方面，Firefox是开源的，并且是以隐私为中心的浏览器。 它收集的数据有限，无需买卖您的数据。

Firefox ensures better privacy and security with the help of it’s Enhanced Tracking Protection (ETP) feature. It has the ability to block cryptomining scripts and social trackers. This is in addition to the basic privacy features that Chrome provides.

Firefox借助其增强的跟踪保护(ETP)功能来确保更好的隐私和安全性。 它具有阻止加密货币脚本和社交跟踪器的功能。 这是Chrome提供的基本隐私保护功能的补充。

ETP is simple. You can choose between 3 ETP profiles: Standard, Strict and Custom. The custom mode gives you the ability to tweak the privacy settings to suit your own needs. I have been using the ‘Strict’ mode for quite a while without any issues.

ETP很简单。 您可以在3个ETP配置文件中选择：标准，严格和自定义。 自定义模式使您能够调整隐私设置以满足自己的需求。 我使用“严格”模式已经有一段时间了，没有任何问题。

可定制性 (Customizability)

There is literally no limit to how much you can customize Firefox. With the provision for custom CSS modifications and Add-ons that can accomplish some pretty insane things, you can make Firefox your own.

实际上，您可以自定义Firefox的数量没有限制。 通过提供自定义CSS修改和可以完成一些非常疯狂的事情的附加组件，您可以使Firefox成为您自己的。

主题 (Themes)

You are not limited by the themes available in the Mozilla store. Since the UI elements are based on CSS, you can add custom CSS modifications to make it look like however you want — from the way the icons look to the padding around different elements. The way you do this is by modifying a file called ‘userChrome.css’. You add whatever modifications you want to this file and Firefox will pick them up. Take a look at these 2 themes and you will get an idea on just how customizable things are.

您不受Mozilla商店中可用主题的限制。 由于UI元素基于CSS，因此您可以添加自定义CSS修改以使其看起来像您想要的那样-从图标的外观到不同元素周围的填充。 为此，您可以修改一个名为“ userChrome.css”的文件。 您可以在此文件中添加所需的任何修改，然后Firefox会进行选择。 看看这两个主题，您将对可自定义的事物有一个了解。

水平制表符vs垂直制表符 (Horizontal Tabs vs Vertical Tabs)

I am going to go off on a tangent here because I really want to get this out of my system. Ready for the rant? Okay, here it goes.

我将在这里切线，因为我真的很想从系统中删除它。 准备好了吗？ 好的，到这里了。

Let me start by saying it again — horizontally stacked tabs is the stupidest thing ever.

让我再说一遍-水平堆叠的标签是有史以来最愚蠢的事情。

Humans are used to lists where items are placed one below the other. Personally, I have never made a “horizontal list” where I wrote down the things I want to buy or do in a horizontal fashion. Having multiple tabs open is essentially a list too — a list of webpages you want to visit.

人们习惯于列出物品放置在另一个物品下面的位置。 就我个人而言，我从来没有做过一个“水平清单”，在这里我写下了要购买或做的事情。 从本质上来说，打开多个标签页也是一个列表-您要访问的网页列表。

Even if you discount the psychological aspect mentioned above, there are glaring practical aspects that make for a solid case against horizontal tabs:

即使您忽略了上面提到的心理方面，也有一些明显的实际方面构成了针对水平制表符的有力依据：

• Vertical real-estate > horizontal real-estate. You read webpages from top to bottom, in a vertical fashion. Naturally, the more vertical space you have on the screen, the more content you can fit in it and the lesser you have to scroll. Horizontal tabs take up this precious vertical real-estate.垂直不动产>水平不动产。 您以垂直方式从上至下阅读网页。 自然，屏幕上的垂直空间越多，可以容纳的内容就越多，滚动的内容也就越少。 水平制表符占据了这个宝贵的垂直房地产。
• In Chrome, the more tabs you open, the smaller the tab becomes until you see just the favicon of the webpage. It is unfathomable to me why anyone would shrink tabs to the point where one cannot make out what the webpage is. Not to mention that this also leads to accidental closing of tabs because the tabs are too damn small. Firefox does this better — it retains the size of the tabs and makes the tabs scroll-able instead of shrinking them to non-existence. Still, not ideal.在Chrome中，打开的标签越多，则标签越小，直到您仅看到网页的图标为止。 对于我来说，谁都无法缩小选项卡，以至于无法分辨出网页是什么，这是我无法理解的。 更不用说这还会导致标签的意外关闭，因为标签太小了。 Firefox可以做得更好-它保留了选项卡的大小并使选项卡可滚动，而不是将其缩小为不存在。 仍然不理想。
• Width of a tab is much smaller than the length of a tab — the width is only 1/7th (approx) the length of a tab. This means that more tabs can fit vertically than horizontally within a given screen space (unless you are using a monitor with an ultra-wide aspect ratio). Consequently, the user can see more tabs at any given time thereby making navigation between tabs easier and quicker.标签的宽度比标签的长度小得多-宽度仅为标签的长度的1/7(大约)。 这意味着在给定的屏幕空间内，垂直方向上可容纳的标签数要多于水平方向上的容纳物(除非您使用的显示器具有超宽的宽高比)。 因此，用户可以在任何给定时间看到更多标签，从而使标签之间的导航更加轻松快捷。

Thankfully, the industry seems to be moving in the right direction. The VP of Microsoft Edge is also a fan of vertical tabs and in a blog post, he announced that Edge will soon be making the switch from horizontal to vertical tabs.

幸运的是，该行业似乎正在朝着正确的方向发展。 Microsoft Edge的副总裁也是垂直标签的粉丝，他在博客中宣布Edge将很快从水平标签转换为垂直标签。

If you are like me when you research online, you find yourself with dozens of tabs open at any given time. When that happens, there’s less space for me to see which tab is which. I find myself losing track or I’ll accidentally close a tab as a result. Utterly frustrating as that is usually exactly the one page I needed.

如果您在网上搜索时像我一样，就会发现自己随时都有数十个选项卡打开。 发生这种情况时，我可以减少查看哪个选项卡的空间。 我发现自己迷路了，否则将不小心关闭标签页。 完全令人沮丧的是，这通常正是我需要的一页。

Today we announced vertical tabs, a feature that helps you easily find and manage many open tabs at once. Microsoft Edge is the only browser that allows you to manage your tabs on the side with a single click. Vertical tabs is expected in the Insider channels in the next few months.

今天，我们宣布了垂直标签页，此功能可帮助您轻松地一次查找和管理许多打开的标签页。 Microsoft Edge是唯一允许您单击即可管理侧面选项卡的浏览器。 预计在未来几个月内，Insider频道中会出现垂直标签。

Vertical tabs isn’t a new thing in Firefox, thanks to Firefox’s customizability. Firefox has already made vertical tabs available with the help of extensions that modify the CSS elements of the browser UI to display them in a vertical fashion. One such extension called ‘Tree Style Tabs’ is covered in the next section.

由于Firefox的可定制性，垂直制表符在Firefox中并不是什么新鲜事物。 Firefox已经借助扩展程序提供了垂直选项卡，这些扩展程序可以修改浏览器UICSS元素以垂直方式显示它们。 下一节将介绍一个称为“树样式选项卡”的扩展。

附加组件/扩展 (Add-Ons/Extensions)

Though Chrome’s web store has significantly more extensions compared to Firefox’s store, the extensions in Firefox let you do some amazing things that you can never even think of in Chrome. The most popular Add-Ons that I found to be very helpful and use regularly are listed below.

尽管与Firefox的商店相比，Chrome的网络商店具有更多的扩展名，但是Firefox中的扩展名使您可以做一些令人惊奇的事情，甚至在Chrome中也无法想到。 以下列出了我发现非常有用并经常使用的最受欢迎的加载项。

树样式选项卡 (Tree Style Tab)

This is my favorite extension of all. The description from the GitHub page describes this perfectly:

这是我最喜欢的扩展。 GitHub页面上的描述完美地描述了这一点：

This is a Firefox add-on which provides the ability to operate tabs as “tree”.

这是Firefox插件，提供了将选项卡作为“树”进行操作的功能。

New tabs opened from the current tab are automatically organized as “children” of the current. Such “branches” are easily folded (collapsed) by clicking on down on the arrow shown in the “parent” tab, so you don’t need to suffer from too many visible tabs anymore. If you want, you can restructure the tree via drag and drop.

从当前选项卡打开的新选项卡会自动组织为当前选项卡的“子级”。 通过单击“父”选项卡中显示的箭头，可以轻松折叠(折叠)此类“分支”，因此您不再需要过多的可见选项卡。 如果需要，可以通过拖放来重组树。

Such a tree of tabs will behave like a visual browsing history for you. For example, if you see a list of search results for a topic, you’ll open each search result link in new “child” tab. For more details you’ll also open more descendant tabs from them. You’ll easily dig and dig deeply, without losing your browsing trail — if you want to go back to the original search result, you just have to switch to the “root” tab.

这样的选项卡树对您而言就像是视觉浏览历史记录。 例如，如果您看到某个主题的搜索结果列表，则将在新的“子”标签中打开每个搜索结果链接。 有关更多详细信息，您还将从中打开更多子孙选项卡。 您将轻松地进行深入挖掘，而又不会失去浏览记录-如果要返回原始搜索结果，只需切换到“根”标签。

Moreover, you’ll treat a tree of tabs just as “grouped tabs” for similar topics.

此外，对于类似主题，您将把标签树视为“分组标签”。

Pair this together with a custom CSS code which makes the tabs-bar disappear and voila, you have made the switch from horizontal tabs to vertical tabs!

将其与自定义CSS代码一起使用，该代码使选项卡栏消失并且瞧，您已经完成了从水平选项卡到垂直选项卡的切换！

uBlock起源 (uBlock Origin)

This is an ad-blocker that is better than the more common Adblock Plus. It is faster, lighter (consumes less RAM) and blocks all the ads. ABP on the other hand, allows some ‘acceptable ads’. It has some powerful tools in its arsenal too: element zapper, javascript disabler, reliable pop-up blocker to name a few.

这是一个广告拦截器，比更常见的Adblock Plus更好。 它更快，更轻(占用更少的RAM)并阻止所有广告。 另一方面，ABP允许一些“可接受的广告”。 它还拥有一些强大的工具：元素压缩程序，javascript禁用程序，可靠的弹出窗口阻止程序等等。

简单选项卡组 (Simple Tab Groups)

This is another excellent extension that makes tab management easier. It lets you bundle tabs into different buckets. For example, your work tabs can be on a separate group and your social media tab in a separate group. Keep in mind that this is only a cosmetic change — the way the tabs are displayed to you. By no means is this similar to the ‘Containers’ functionality of Firefox.

这是另一个出色的扩展，使选项卡管理更加容易。 它使您可以将选项卡捆绑到不同的存储桶中。 例如，您的工作选项卡可以位于单独的组中，而社交媒体选项卡可以位于单独的组中。 请记住，这只是表面上的改变-向您显示选项卡的方式。 这绝不类似于Firefox的“ 容器 ”功能。

The ‘manage groups’ option lets you view all your groups in a single page. You can drag and drop tabs to move them between groups. It is a simple yet powerful tool to de-clutter your browser. Plus, it is always satisfying to organize and put some order to the mess.

“管理组”选项可让您在单个页面中查看所有组。 您可以拖放选项卡以在组之间移动它们。 它是使浏览器混乱的简单而强大的工具。 另外，组织和整理混乱总是很令人满意的。

AutoTab放弃 (AutoTab Discard)

This extension suspends the tabs after a set period of inactivity. That way, even if you have numerous tabs open, your RAM is not running out of juice.

此扩展名在设置的闲置时间后会挂起选项卡。 这样，即使打开了许多选项卡，RAM也不会耗尽。

You also have the ability to whitelist websites so that tabs running those websites are never suspended.

您还可以将网站列入白名单，以便运行这些网站的标签永远不会被挂起。

黑暗读者 (Dark Reader)

Who doesn’t like some slick dark mode goodness, eh? I love having dark mode whenever and wherever possible and this extension does exactly that. It basically applies a ‘dark mode’ on any webpage you visit.

谁不喜欢光滑的黑暗模式优点？ 我喜欢随时随地使用深色模式，而该扩展程序正是这样做的。 它基本上会在您访问的任何网页上应用“暗模式”。

You can see some examples below:

您可以在下面看到一些示例：

三act基 (Tridactyl)

Okay, this one is for the true power user. It has a steep learning curve and it takes some time to get used to. But once you get a hang of it, there is nothing like it. It provides keyboard shortcuts for any action that you would want to perform in your browser — scrolling, zoom in and out, search, copy link to clipboard — you name it, Tridactyl has a keyboard shortcut for it. Below picture is a tutorial page that walks you through some of the shortcuts.

好的，这是给真正的超级用户的。 它具有陡峭的学习曲线，需要一段时间才能习惯。 但是一旦掌握了它，就没有比它更合适的了。 它为您要在浏览器中执行的任何操作提供了键盘快捷键-滚动，放大和缩小，搜索，将链接复制到剪贴板-命名为Tridactyl，它具有键盘快捷键。 下图是一个教程页面，引导您完成一些快捷方式。

效用 (Utility)

Firefox has some seemingly small features that made my internet surfing experience significantly better.

Firefox具有一些看似很小的功能，这些功能使我的网上冲浪体验大大改善了。

Firefox发送 (Firefox Send)

This is a file sharing service from Mozilla that allows you to share files of upto 2.5GB if you sign up and upto 1 GB if you do not sign up. In any case, the feature is free. You drop files on the source computer, you open Firefox Send on the destination computer and download the files. Simple, quick and easy.

这是来自Mozilla的文件共享服务，通过该服务，您可以在注册后共享最多2.5GB的文件，而在未注册的情况下共享最多1 GB的文件。 无论如何，该功能都是免费的。 您将文件拖放到源计算机上，然后在目标计算机上打开Firefox发送并下载文件。 简单，快捷，容易。

发送标签到设备 (Send Tab to Device)

Like I mentioned, I am a heavy tabs guy and I have a lot of tabs open both on my desktop and my smartphone. I use my phone for reading articles on current affairs. For reading about everything else, I use my desktop. However, on my phone, I come across a lot of websites/blogs that I prefer reading on my desktop. This is where this feature comes in super handy. All the Firefox instances in your mobiles and desktops are synced and connected. And this feature lets me send a tab from one device to another, irrespective of the OS. So, I simply send these tabs from my smartphone to my desktop. This makes tab management easier and unclogs my mobile browser.

就像我提到的那样，我是一个沉重的标签用户，并且在我的台式机和智能手机上都打开了许多标签。 我用手机阅读有关时事的文章。 为了阅读其他所有内容，我使用台式机。 但是，在手机上，我遇到了很多喜欢在台式机上阅读的网站/博客。 这是此功能超级方便的地方。 手机和台式机中的所有Firefox实例均已同步并连接。 而且此功能使我可以将选项卡从一台设备发送到另一台设备，而与操作系统无关。 因此，我只需将这些标签从智能手机发送到桌面即可。 这使得标签管理更加容易，并且可以取消移动浏览器的阻塞。

There are a couple of other features that both the browsers have but to enable these in Chrome you need to do a little bit of work. In Firefox, they are readily available.

两种浏览器都具有其他一些功能，但是要在Chrome中启用这些功能，您需要做一些工作。 在Firefox中，它们随时可用。

阅读器模式 (Reader Mode)

It lets you read articles by removing all the clutter surrounding it. Pro tip: You can use this to bypass some (not all) paywalls in websites. But only do this when you are broke :) If you can afford it, pay for what you are getting.

它使您可以消除周围的所有杂物来阅读文章。 专家提示 ：您可以使用它绕过网站中的部分(并非全部)付费专区。 但是，只有在破产时才这样做：)如果您负担得起，请支付所获得的费用。

The reader mode in Firefox is a bit more robust in terms of the options it provides. You can change the font, line spacing, paragraph width, font size and background color.

就其提供的选项而言，Firefox中的阅读器模式更为强大。 您可以更改字体，行距，段落宽度，字体大小和背景颜色。

For auditory learners, you have an audio reader mode that will read out the article to you. You can control the pace and the gender of the person reading it out to you.

对于听觉学习者，您可以使用音频阅读器模式来朗读文章。 您可以控制向您朗读内容的人的步调和性别。

Below is Chrome’s reading mode options. To enable this, you need to go to “chrome://flags/#enable-reader-mode” and toggle the feature on.

以下是Chrome的阅读模式选项。 要启用此功能，您需要转到“ chrome：// flags /＃enable-reader-mode”并启用该功能。

画中画 (Picture in Picture)

Any video that you are watching can be snapped out of it’s video player into a floating window that can be moved around and resized as per your convenience. You can switch windows as well and the floating player will still be on the top. This is great for anyone who wants to take notes while watching a video/browsing a webpage.

您正在观看的任何视频都可以从其视频播放器中捕捉到一个浮动窗口中，该窗口可以根据您的方便进行移动和调整大小。 您也可以切换窗口，浮动播放器仍将位于顶部。 这对于想要在观看视频/浏览网页时做笔记的人来说非常有用。

To enable this feature in Chrome, you will need to add this extension from the Chrome web store.

要在Chrome中启用此功能，您需要从Chrome网上应用店添加此扩展程序。

我在Firefox上设置的其他内容 (Other things I have setup on my Firefox)

Note: The below are not exclusive to Firefox. I am mentioning them here so that this article is comprehensive enough for those who want to switch.

注意：以下内容并非仅限于Firefox。 我在这里提到它们是为了使本文对于那些想要切换的人足够全面。

• Enable DNS over HTTPs — improves security and lets you visit webpages that your ISP has blocked

  通过HTTP启用DNS-增强安全性，并允许您访问ISP阻止的网页

• Block new requests asking to allow notifications — almost any website you visit asks your permission to send notifications. This is a nuisance and you can turn this off in the notification settings.

  阻止要求允许通知的新请求 -您访问的几乎所有网站都要求您允许发送通知。 这很麻烦，您可以在通知设置中将其关闭。

• Setup keywords for searching different websites — For example, you can bind the keyword ‘yt’ for YouTube search. Once you do that, you can simply search YouTube without going to YouTube.com or going to google by typing ‘yt topic I want a video on’ in the URL bar of Firefox and it will directly give you the search results from YouTube.

  设置用于搜索其他网站的关键字 -例如，您可以将关键字“ yt”绑定到YouTube搜索。 完成此操作后，您只需在Firefox的网址栏中输入“我要播放视频的主题”即可直接搜索YouTube，而无需访问YouTube.com或去Google，它将直接为您提供来自YouTube的搜索结果。

• LastPass browser extension for password management — Though Firefox has its own password manager, I prefer using a dedicated password manager. If you want to know why, (shameless plug incoming) you can read my other article on password managers here.

  用于密码管理的LastPass浏览器扩展 -尽管Firefox拥有自己的密码管理器，但我更喜欢使用专用的密码管理器。 如果您想知道原因，(无耻的插件传入)，您可以在此处阅读我关于密码管理器的另一篇文章。

结论 (Conclusion)

Firefox is awesome. Switch to Firefox and enjoy a better surfing experience.

Firefox很棒。 切换到Firefox并享受更好的冲浪体验。

链接到本文中提到的所有内容 (Links to Everything Mentioned in this Article)

主题 (Themes)

• Flying Fox

  飞狐

• Prismatic Night

  多彩之夜

附加组件 (Add-Ons)

• Tree Style Tabs (Github page of TST)

  树样式选项卡 ( TST的Github页 )

• uBlock Origin

  uBlock起源

• Simple Tab Groups

  简单选项卡组

• Auto Tab Discard

  自动标签丢弃

• Dark Reader

  黑暗读者

• Tridactyl

  三act基

效用 (Utility)

• Firefox Send (Mozilla has suspended this feature temporarily)

  Firefox发送 ( Mozilla暂时暂停了此功能)

• Send Tab to Device

  将标签发送到设备

• Reader Mode

  阅读器模式

• Picture-in-Picture

  画中画

安全 (Security)

• Enhanced Tracking Protection

  增强跟踪保护

• DNS over HTTPs

  通过HTTP的DNS