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I'm calling it today: 2017 will be the year of the Firefox come-back. I recently started using it again after switching to Chrome when Chrome was initially rel

I'm calling it today: 2017 will be the year of the Firefox come-back. I recently started using it again after switching to Chrome when Chrome was initially released in beta. I'm more of a second-wave of adopters--not among the very first but before the masses jump on board. I predict that tech-savvy business users will start jumping back later this year and that by 2018, we'll start to see non-technical people (like my parents and in-laws) start to use it as family and friends begin to recommend it. Why? Battery life and speed. Chrome is just a mess these days. Absolutely terrible on laptops.

baby 10y ago
This plus Firefox has Tree Style Tabs, which is the killer plugin Chrome doesn't have.
- hbt 10y ago
  checkout "tabs outliner" on chrome.
  - baby 10y ago
    I've tried it and it's just so clumsy I couldn't really use it.
- tapoxi 10y ago
  I've been using Mozilla's own Tab Center, which looks a bit nicer than TST and is e10s friendly: https://testpilot.firefox.com/experiments/tab-center https://testpilot.firefox.com/experiments/tab-center I hope they just make it part of the standard release.
  - baby 10y ago
    no nested tabs :/ it looks like a toy plugin compared to TST
  - flukus 10y ago
    I've been pretty happy with Tab Center too. Tab handling is the one thing a browser has to nail for me and yet so many (including base firefox) do such a poor job of it.
sergiotapia 10y ago
Firefox is the only browser that has microstutters in the UI for me. That's a dealbreaker, I can't deal with it constantly pestering me throughout the day. This has been happening on Mac OS for about three years now for me, multiple devices: two macbook airs, and a 2016 5k imac. I wish I could use Opera but it's been bought by a chinese company.
- chipotle_coyote 10y ago
  I wish I could use Opera but it's been bought by a chinese company. Well, there's Vivaldi.
- neurostimulant 10y ago
  They're working on a new renderer (quantum) to replace gecko and it is said to address this performance issue that has been plaguing Firefox for too long. ETA is late 2017.

baby 10y ago

This plus Firefox has Tree Style Tabs, which is the killer plugin Chrome doesn't have.

hbt 10y ago
checkout "tabs outliner" on chrome.
- baby 10y ago
  I've tried it and it's just so clumsy I couldn't really use it.
tapoxi 10y ago
I've been using Mozilla's own Tab Center, which looks a bit nicer than TST and is e10s friendly: https://testpilot.firefox.com/experiments/tab-center https://testpilot.firefox.com/experiments/tab-center I hope they just make it part of the standard release.
- baby 10y ago
  no nested tabs :/ it looks like a toy plugin compared to TST
- flukus 10y ago
  I've been pretty happy with Tab Center too. Tab handling is the one thing a browser has to nail for me and yet so many (including base firefox) do such a poor job of it.

sergiotapia 10y ago

Firefox is the only browser that has microstutters in the UI for me. That's a dealbreaker, I can't deal with it constantly pestering me throughout the day. This has been happening on Mac OS for about three years now for me, multiple devices: two macbook airs, and a 2016 5k imac. I wish I could use Opera but it's been bought by a chinese company.

chipotle_coyote 10y ago
I wish I could use Opera but it's been bought by a chinese company. Well, there's Vivaldi.
neurostimulant 10y ago
They're working on a new renderer (quantum) to replace gecko and it is said to address this performance issue that has been plaguing Firefox for too long. ETA is late 2017.