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This is my list, all of which Chrome does better than Firefox (roughly related bug reports included): * Restore the old settings. They copied Chrome's settings

by jhasse 9y ago

This is my list, all of which Chrome does better than Firefox (roughly related bug reports included): * Restore the old settings. They copied Chrome's settings-as-a-tab with the UI just being HTML. But in Chrome I can at least search the settings. Why did Mozilla waste their time on copying the HTML-settings without also implemented the most useful feature? It was just a huge regression, because the UI is now non-native, many things aren't resizeable anymore and some other minor bugs where introduced, without any apparent benefit. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1325286 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1325286 * When you start Firefox two times in a row, the dialog "Firefox is already running, please close the running instance" or something like this pops up. Chrome doesn't have this problem, maybe just because its startup time is SO much better. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=489981 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=489981 * On Linux: Integrate the tabs into the titlebar like Chrome does. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=513159 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=513159 * Way too easy to quit the whole browser with Ctrl+Q (Chrome uses Ctrl+Shift+Q) https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=52821 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=52821 * Encrypt passwords with the keyring (like Chrome does) https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=309807 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=309807 (btw: that's the second most voted bug of the "Toolkit" product according to https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/page.cgi?id=productdashboard.html&tab=popularity&product=Toolkit&bug_status=open https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/page.cgi?id=productdashboard.ht... ) * No hardware acceleration on Linux (playing HD YouTube videos lags for me in Firefox out-of-the-box, perfectly fine in Chrome) https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1280523 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1280523 * Speed and responsiveness of the UI in general are much better in Chrome. (no bug report link, sorry) Notice how that there's no complain about the look of the main UI, still Mozilla decides to redo it yet again with project Photon ... Did I miss the bug report with lots of votes for that? And regarding the bug reports (most of them reported years ago): There was a comment on Reddit a while ago where a GNOME (!) developer said something along the lines "We're not Mozilla, we're actually reading and answering our bug reports". That says something.

E6300 9y ago
> When you start Firefox two times in a row, the dialog "Firefox is already running, please close the running instance" or something like this pops up. On Windows, this only happens if the second instance starts with a specific command-line option (the name escapes me at the moment). Otherwise, the existing instance just opens a new window.
unknown2374 9y ago
While I do agree with a lot of the points: > * Way too easy to quit the whole browser with Ctrl+Q (Chrome uses Ctrl+Shift+Q) Saying that it's nitpicky to include this in your list would be huge understatement, it's straight out ridiculous. I have always found Firefox to be more responsive and less resource heavy than Chrome, so I don't know why you had problems with that. But yes, you are right when you imply that Firefox seems to have prioritization problems, lots of them imo. However, it is understandable to me, making the UI looking prettier is for marketing, not usability. Most of these things you listed are not addressing a lot of users, on the other hand, having a flashier UI would address and (potentially) attract more users. But their management still needs to improve, and as a company, they should have better direction.
- jhasse 9y ago
  > Saying that it's nitpicky to include this in your list would be huge understatement, it's straight out ridiculous. There's a bug report about it with lots of duplicates and 71 votes. I use Ctrl+W to close tabs, so losing work in other tabs is just one key away. For me, it isn't nitpicky. > having a flashier UI would address and (potentially) attract more users. You don't know that though. You think it will attract more users. You'll need some kind of metric to know what people really want. "Gets often repeated in discussions" is one, "which bug reports get voted on" is another.
  - fav_collector 9y ago
    I agree although ctrl+shift+q is still suboptimal because ctrl+shift+tab is right next to it.

by jhasse 9y ago

E6300 9y ago

> When you start Firefox two times in a row, the dialog "Firefox is already running, please close the running instance" or something like this pops up. On Windows, this only happens if the second instance starts with a specific command-line option (the name escapes me at the moment). Otherwise, the existing instance just opens a new window.

unknown2374 9y ago

While I do agree with a lot of the points: > * Way too easy to quit the whole browser with Ctrl+Q (Chrome uses Ctrl+Shift+Q) Saying that it's nitpicky to include this in your list would be huge understatement, it's straight out ridiculous. I have always found Firefox to be more responsive and less resource heavy than Chrome, so I don't know why you had problems with that. But yes, you are right when you imply that Firefox seems to have prioritization problems, lots of them imo. However, it is understandable to me, making the UI looking prettier is for marketing, not usability. Most of these things you listed are not addressing a lot of users, on the other hand, having a flashier UI would address and (potentially) attract more users. But their management still needs to improve, and as a company, they should have better direction.

jhasse 9y ago
> Saying that it's nitpicky to include this in your list would be huge understatement, it's straight out ridiculous. There's a bug report about it with lots of duplicates and 71 votes. I use Ctrl+W to close tabs, so losing work in other tabs is just one key away. For me, it isn't nitpicky. > having a flashier UI would address and (potentially) attract more users. You don't know that though. You think it will attract more users. You'll need some kind of metric to know what people really want. "Gets often repeated in discussions" is one, "which bug reports get voted on" is another.
- fav_collector 9y ago
  I agree although ctrl+shift+q is still suboptimal because ctrl+shift+tab is right next to it.