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>> good folks at Firefox deserve your usage just as much >So contrary to popular opinion on HN, Firefox is not as good as Chrome. However, we must still use it

>> good folks at Firefox deserve your usage just as much >So contrary to popular opinion on HN, Firefox is not as good as Chrome. However, we must still use it. Consider it an act of charity >I don't think so. Mozilla must earn their user base by making a good browser and marketing it well Firefox don’t need anyone to use it as an act of charity. But you need to stop the underhanded FUD. Talking like Chrome is somehow better than all other browsers is just as dumb as saying that x model of y car brand is best... Best for what? A lot of people love Chrome, Mac, Mercedes. Sure they are good but I dont want any of them. - I want my tabs to be vertical and automatically nested, - my browser to support 100s of tabs and real extensions, - my computer to have different window management and different menus than what is available on Mac OS - my car to have a handbraķe. Going on about how chrome is the best browser is only slightly more mature IMO than me as a kid going on about how x was the beat car (just because my dad had one). In this case it is even worse as people read it everywhere and start thinking it is true.

epicide 9y ago
The car analogy starts to fall apart when you are talking about something that continues to get updates. Sure, they release new versions of cars usually every year, but you are buying an entirely new car, not really updating your old one. It also starts to fall apart when talking about price. You can talk about browsers costing time, effort, privacy, etc, but this isn't the same as talking about thousands of actual dollars. > real extensions Unless I'm mistaken, I don't believe Firefox is going to have those for too much longer: https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2015/08/21/the-future-of-developing-firefox-add-ons/ https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2015/08/21/the-future-of-dev...
- reitanqild 9y ago
  As far as I am aware they are still going to have more extension points than Chrome. E.g. it seems the vertical tabs extension I use will still work.

epicide 9y ago

The car analogy starts to fall apart when you are talking about something that continues to get updates. Sure, they release new versions of cars usually every year, but you are buying an entirely new car, not really updating your old one. It also starts to fall apart when talking about price. You can talk about browsers costing time, effort, privacy, etc, but this isn't the same as talking about thousands of actual dollars. > real extensions Unless I'm mistaken, I don't believe Firefox is going to have those for too much longer: https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2015/08/21/the-future-of-developing-firefox-add-ons/ https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2015/08/21/the-future-of-dev...

reitanqild 9y ago
As far as I am aware they are still going to have more extension points than Chrome. E.g. it seems the vertical tabs extension I use will still work.