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I'm really happy with Firefox these days. It is faster for my usage, except on Facebook and Google products, which I barely use these days.

christophilus 9y ago
I've been using it for the past 3 months as my primary browser. The mobile experience is superior to Chrome, in my opinion. (Particularly, the reader mode on mobile makes certain sites usable due to lack of JS, and proper font sizes.)
- hobarrera 9y ago
  The mobile version is generally okay, but it takes way way much more than safari to start up, which absolutely sucks when you just when to quickly look something up.
  - mintplant 9y ago
    You might be interested in Firefox Focus, which is purpose-built for the "I just want to quickly look something up" usecase. https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/focus/ https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/focus/
    - hobarrera 9y ago
      I do, actually. But I really like to keep a history so I can later recall what I looked up (or sometimes, the other way around: I need to look at my history).
  - posguy 9y ago
    Firefox & Chrome are essentially skins of Safari on iOS, Apple has purposefully kneecapped both from using their own rendering engines.
    - hobarrera 9y ago
      Yeah, but I use firefox mostly for Sync (history/passwords), so there's a huge difference between it and safari for me.
- pirocks 9y ago
  Don't forget the ability to access mobile tabs/history from desktop and vice-versa.
  - mintplant 9y ago
    Firefox for Android also has extension support, including uBlock Origin, HTTPS Everywhere, and the Unified Script Injector (userscript engine, similar to Greasemonkey).
    - kodr 9y ago
      yeah, I mainly use it for uBlock Origin.
- ams6110 9y ago
  As well as being able to install uBlock Origin on mobile FF.
rebelwebmaster 9y ago
Facebook and Google have been pretty high-priority targets for improvement as part of the Quantum Flow project, so don't be surprised to see them get better in 56/57. As a Firefox nightly user, Google Docs/Sheets is night and day better than it used to be.

christophilus 9y ago

I've been using it for the past 3 months as my primary browser. The mobile experience is superior to Chrome, in my opinion. (Particularly, the reader mode on mobile makes certain sites usable due to lack of JS, and proper font sizes.)

hobarrera 9y ago
The mobile version is generally okay, but it takes way way much more than safari to start up, which absolutely sucks when you just when to quickly look something up.
- mintplant 9y ago
  You might be interested in Firefox Focus, which is purpose-built for the "I just want to quickly look something up" usecase. https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/focus/ https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/focus/
  - hobarrera 9y ago
    I do, actually. But I really like to keep a history so I can later recall what I looked up (or sometimes, the other way around: I need to look at my history).
- posguy 9y ago
  Firefox & Chrome are essentially skins of Safari on iOS, Apple has purposefully kneecapped both from using their own rendering engines.
  - hobarrera 9y ago
    Yeah, but I use firefox mostly for Sync (history/passwords), so there's a huge difference between it and safari for me.
pirocks 9y ago
Don't forget the ability to access mobile tabs/history from desktop and vice-versa.
- mintplant 9y ago
  Firefox for Android also has extension support, including uBlock Origin, HTTPS Everywhere, and the Unified Script Injector (userscript engine, similar to Greasemonkey).
  - kodr 9y ago
    yeah, I mainly use it for uBlock Origin.
ams6110 9y ago
As well as being able to install uBlock Origin on mobile FF.

rebelwebmaster 9y ago

Facebook and Google have been pretty high-priority targets for improvement as part of the Quantum Flow project, so don't be surprised to see them get better in 56/57. As a Firefox nightly user, Google Docs/Sheets is night and day better than it used to be.