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1. Firefox 58 has considerable speed improvements 2. Firefox has much better support for tab customization like tree style tabs (not yet supported in 58, I thi
by sharmi 9y ago
1. Firefox 58 has considerable speed improvements
2. Firefox has much better support for tab customization like tree style tabs (not yet supported in 58, I think), multiple tabs, where you can close, move, reload multiple tabs together, copy url of selected tabs in custom format etc.
3. Reliable session recovery. With chrome , if you have more than one window each with multiple tabs, recovery of all windows is not guaranteed. Firefox on the other hand has a versatile session restore process. I sometimes have 6 or more nested session restores. Only thing affected is your sanity, when going through all the tabs. Also, in firefox, when recovering, the pages are not loaded unless the user purposefully navigates to the page, saving memory.
Firefox also supports hundreds of tabs easily. It is THE browser for tab hoarders.
4. Chrome on android does not allow extensions. So no ublock origin on Chrome mobile. That leaves a bad taste in the mouth. For that and other reasons cited by other answers here, I do not trust Chrome on desktop either.
5. Certain features on Web developer tools are better in firefox. I use both firefox and chrome for this interchangeably.
6. I like that typing in address bar checks only in history and bookmarks and the search bar is separate. In chrome, I often notice that search is given more priority over history. What is one hop in firefox becomes two in chrome: first to the search page, then the actual website.
- znpy 9y agohttps://www.mozilla.org/it/firefox/all/ https://www.mozilla.org/it/firefox/all/ only reports firefox 55 as available for download.
- jseliger 9y agoMine are a little simpler: It's "good enough," and seems good for the open web and open source.
- jkabrg 9y agoThe search bar is soon to be hidden by default -- you'll have the option to turn it on. [1] [1] - https://news.slashdot.org/story/17/09/08/2330232/firefox-57-will-hide-search-bar-and-use-a-uni-bar-approach-like-chrome https://news.slashdot.org/story/17/09/08/2330232/firefox-57-...
- ksec 9y agoSorry, why 58? Nightly is on 57 only. What is landing in 58?
- hobofan 9y agoI don't know either. Might be the first release with Stylo, the new CSS engine written in Rust, but I can't really find any references to that.
- steveklabnik 9y agoStylo is on by default for 57 at the moment. WebRender is upcoming, but I don't think on-by-default anywhere. (That said looks like maybe OP just mistyped.)
- hobofan 9y agoDoes that also mean that Stylo will be the default in the release version of 57, if everything goes smoothly?
- steveklabnik 9y agoThat's my understanding, yes.
- enturn 9y agoIt's possibly to do with a roadmap of extension APIs that are required to properly implement vertical tabs. WebExtensions Experiments allow developers to make changes to the APIs before they are in the official builds. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1280347 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1280347
- sharmi 9y agoYes, I meant 57, currently the nightly. I was typing on mobile and couldn't cross check. Sorry.
- kehers 9y ago> 6. I like that typing in address bar checks only in history and bookmarks and the search bar is separate. In chrome, I often notice that search is given more priority over history. Thought I was the only one that noticed this
- bhnmmhmd 9y agoDespite these points, FF uses much more CPU on OS X. If that wasn't the case, I'd totally give it a shot. Plus, FF displays current downloads in another window which is annoying.
- 0x4a42 9y agoFirefox Nightly is at version 57, why are you talking about v58?