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Edit: saw you wrote "in many ways behind". Not sure if it was there all the time or not, if it was the I apologize for my lack of reading skills and the rest of

Edit: saw you wrote "in many ways behind". Not sure if it was there all the time or not, if it was the I apologize for my lack of reading skills and the rest of you are free to ignore this comment :-/ And because people tell this story to each other and believe it. Now tell me: If it is "simply the best", since when is tree style tabs available? And if it is "simply the best", since when did it start handling multiple hundreds of tabs well? If not, can we then agree that it is very good and the one you and a number of others prefer, not "simply the best"? If not, should we also have a discussion about what car brand is "simply the best"?

pluma 9y ago
I switched to Brave for a week and had to go back because the plugin ecosystem is pretty much nonexistent at this point. I switched to Firefox for another couple of weeks and had to give up because the developer tools were sluggish in comparison and plugins were frequently out of date and even multiprocessor mode was a massive problem (because plugins could silently prevent it). I'm on Linux. Neither Safari nor Edge are available, so the only other serious alternative I can think of is Opera. And I'm not going to switch my main development browser to something with practically no market share for the projects I work on. Chrome is _simply the best_ browser for web development right now. Everything else is second class at best, irrelevant at worst. Also Chrome's extension ecosystem is pretty much what Firefox's used to be at its prime: if there's a browser extension available, it's likely Chrome-first and the Chrome version will be the most consistently maintained one. I would love to see open source win, but switching my main development browser from Chrome to Firefox would mean working with a massive avoidable handicap.

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Edit: saw you wrote "in many ways behind". Not sure if it was there all the time or not, if it was the I apologize for my lack of reading skills and the rest of

by reitanqild 9y ago

pluma 9y ago
I switched to Brave for a week and had to go back because the plugin ecosystem is pretty much nonexistent at this point. I switched to Firefox for another couple of weeks and had to give up because the developer tools were sluggish in comparison and plugins were frequently out of date and even multiprocessor mode was a massive problem (because plugins could silently prevent it). I'm on Linux. Neither Safari nor Edge are available, so the only other serious alternative I can think of is Opera. And I'm not going to switch my main development browser to something with practically no market share for the projects I work on. Chrome is _simply the best_ browser for web development right now. Everything else is second class at best, irrelevant at worst. Also Chrome's extension ecosystem is pretty much what Firefox's used to be at its prime: if there's a browser extension available, it's likely Chrome-first and the Chrome version will be the most consistently maintained one. I would love to see open source win, but switching my main development browser from Chrome to Firefox would mean working with a massive avoidable handicap.