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I'm glad we are finally coming to terms with the fact that Firefox has been a second tier browser since Chrome was released. Everyone has love and good will fo

by tbrock 10y ago

I'm glad we are finally coming to terms with the fact that Firefox has been a second tier browser since Chrome was released. Everyone has love and good will for Mozilla and Firefox because Firefox showed the world what a browser and the web could be if designed correctly to some open standard. However, the developer tools, JS performance, and overall browser tech have languished. So while we all are cheering for them to catch up, we do it sadly from a Chrome. Debugging a modern SPA on Firefox is painful. What should have been an "oh crap, we need to up our game" moment for them was a whoosh just like the iPhone reveal was for Balmer.

ZenoArrow 10y ago
>"overall browser tech have languished" Au contraire... https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=u0hYIRQRiws https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=u0hYIRQRiws https://wiki.mozilla.org/Quantum https://wiki.mozilla.org/Quantum
jamesgeck0 10y ago
Firefox wasn't a second-tier browser immediately after the Chrome release, though. In my anecdotical experience, Firefox seemed faster, was more stable, and used less memory than Chrome at the time. Firebug was also easier to use than Chrome's dev tools. At the time. It's a much different story today.