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They also "updated" the search box, beside extensions the main reason why I still prefer it over Chrome. Firefox is slowly but surely becoming unbearable. It's

They also "updated" the search box, beside extensions the main reason why I still prefer it over Chrome. Firefox is slowly but surely becoming unbearable. It's a real tragedy that its market share has suffered as much as it has but Chrome users aren't coming back. If they keep this Chrome-ization their remaining users just won't see any reason to choose Firefox over Chrome and they will leave.

nol13 10y ago
Still, an extension for a popular message board that was being developed was about to get me to switch to Chrome, but turns out that with almost no modifications it works great in Firefox nightly too! If not for that there's no way anyone was going to bother to port it.
giovannibajo1 10y ago
Yeah I agree. Firefox is slowly becoming a Chrome clone. It took them a long while to migrate everything to follow the Chrome lead (release strategy, update strategy, multiprocess architecture, sandboxing, extension API, HTML UI, etc.) but I wonder what's the benefit of having two identical browsers. Yes the HTML engine is different but then so what, I don't think end users are ever going to switch because of HTML engines.
- nathancahill 10y ago
  Privacy is a big reason I'm still using Firefox over Chrome.
- derefr 10y ago
  Does there need to be a difference? Having two independent "rival" implementations of every feature is useful for the health of the web development ecosystem. The two apps could just be completely interchangeable from a user's perspective—a single site giving users one or the other for download at random—and that would still be true.
  - malka 10y ago
    This. If tomorrow Google goes truly crazy with the tracking in chrome, this lower the cost of switching for the end user
- scrollaway 10y ago
  I'm sick of both Chrome and Firefox, honestly. I like Chrome's UI a lot so I don't mind Firefox becoming that. However, god damn it I just want a good browser. One I don't have to restart on a regular basis. One that doesn't become sluggish after a day of usage, or 20 tabs open. Firefox right now is an overall sub-par experience. Of the two, it's the only one that I've seen actually crash (Chrome has individual tab crashes). The scrollbars aren't stylable and it is a lot slower. And then Chrome has its own issues as well. Its "Restore tabs" dialog is too easy to click away (firefox's is a lot better) and it just loses the tabs. Not to mention when there's a lot of tabs to restore, it loads everything at once instead of doing lazy loading like Firefox. And Chrome still doesn't have autoscroll... I use an extension for it, but it can't touch the chrome:// pages... These are all extremely long standing issues, it's incredible they haven't been fixed. Fat good that competition between Mozilla and Google is doing.
bad_user 10y ago
Not sure what you mean. I'm a Chrome user that came back.
cheiVia0 10y ago
Thankfully, there's the Old Search addon for that brings it back https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/old-search1/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/old-search1/

nol13 10y ago

Still, an extension for a popular message board that was being developed was about to get me to switch to Chrome, but turns out that with almost no modifications it works great in Firefox nightly too! If not for that there's no way anyone was going to bother to port it.

giovannibajo1 10y ago

Yeah I agree. Firefox is slowly becoming a Chrome clone. It took them a long while to migrate everything to follow the Chrome lead (release strategy, update strategy, multiprocess architecture, sandboxing, extension API, HTML UI, etc.) but I wonder what's the benefit of having two identical browsers. Yes the HTML engine is different but then so what, I don't think end users are ever going to switch because of HTML engines.

nathancahill 10y ago
Privacy is a big reason I'm still using Firefox over Chrome.
derefr 10y ago
Does there need to be a difference? Having two independent "rival" implementations of every feature is useful for the health of the web development ecosystem. The two apps could just be completely interchangeable from a user's perspective—a single site giving users one or the other for download at random—and that would still be true.
- malka 10y ago
  This. If tomorrow Google goes truly crazy with the tracking in chrome, this lower the cost of switching for the end user
scrollaway 10y ago
I'm sick of both Chrome and Firefox, honestly. I like Chrome's UI a lot so I don't mind Firefox becoming that. However, god damn it I just want a good browser. One I don't have to restart on a regular basis. One that doesn't become sluggish after a day of usage, or 20 tabs open. Firefox right now is an overall sub-par experience. Of the two, it's the only one that I've seen actually crash (Chrome has individual tab crashes). The scrollbars aren't stylable and it is a lot slower. And then Chrome has its own issues as well. Its "Restore tabs" dialog is too easy to click away (firefox's is a lot better) and it just loses the tabs. Not to mention when there's a lot of tabs to restore, it loads everything at once instead of doing lazy loading like Firefox. And Chrome still doesn't have autoscroll... I use an extension for it, but it can't touch the chrome:// pages... These are all extremely long standing issues, it's incredible they haven't been fixed. Fat good that competition between Mozilla and Google is doing.

bad_user 10y ago

Not sure what you mean. I'm a Chrome user that came back.

cheiVia0 10y ago

Thankfully, there's the Old Search addon for that brings it back https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/old-search1/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/old-search1/