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After years of using Chrome I tried Firefox just to try something different and to my surprise it's 90% as good as Chrome and even surpasses it in certain areas
by hdhzy 9y ago
After years of using Chrome I tried Firefox just to try something different and to my surprise it's 90% as good as Chrome and even surpasses it in certain areas:
- address bar history is better, Chrome wants you to google everything, not use your history,
- Firefox for Android has addons, I don't even want to remember life without uBlock... I still have nightmares of vibrating website scams on Chrome.
Chrome is generally better in:
- speed and security,
- interesting Web APIs (foreign-fetch in Service Workers, Barcode recognition on Android).
- the_common_man 9y ago> - speed and security, Can you clarify about the security angle? What makes Firefox less secure?
- noinsight 9y agoZero sandboxing for one?
- hdhzy 9y agoCurrently? Lack of multiprocess tabs [0] and native U2F (available though third party addon, not on Android). Personally I also like how Google deals with Symantec issues. [0]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Firefox/Multiprocess_Firefox https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Firefox/Multiprocess_Fir...
- the_common_man 9y agoAh ok, I already have electrolysis. U2F i agree
- soperj 9y agoI also find Firefox doesn't chew through my battery as quickly.