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Quantum was annoying enough to kill Firefox for me completely. I've completely shifted. EDIT: Added explanation The big issue is I often switch between Browse

Quantum was annoying enough to kill Firefox for me completely. I've completely shifted. EDIT: Added explanation The big issue is I often switch between Browsers for work. So I often switch between Chrome, Firefox, and Opera with custom extensions for my workflow. With the amount of choice, I don't need to stick with a browser that makes my life harder than easier. Chrome is my main browser now, it was already getting close to majority usage for me.

ancarda 9y ago
What did you switch to? Was it due to extensions?
- nwah1 9y ago
  I feel like there's a lot of anti-Mozilla trolls on this particular comments section. Compared to most other articles on HN, it just doesn't align with the views I've heard elsewhere, and certainly doesn't align with my experience as a happy Firefox user.
  - rnhmjoj 9y ago
    I have been using Firefox for about 5 years, I'm still using it and despite that I'm anti-Mozilla. The browser performance has always been fine to me and 57 doesn't look particularly "faster" as they are advertising it. I'm one of the dozen people that care about a browser being user configurable and not doing any analytics, telemetry, experiments,... . Mozilla has lately been working exactly against this. I have about 80KB of patch files just to remove all the crap Mozilla managed to stuff into an otherwise perfect browser like: advertisements, telemetry, more data sharing, geolocation using google servers, a social network and proprietary binary blobs for service integration. When I build a clean version of Firefox then I'm happy too.
  - kk_cz 9y ago
    How do you tell "anti-Mozilla troll" from a genuinely dissapointed user? I'm currently on FF ESR, once my favorite extentsions stop working there I might as well switch the browser completely, since my UX will be completely reset just as it would be with a entirely different browser. I'm not saying I will switch to something else (other browsers seem equally unusable to me as FF57 is currently), but I will certainly try all the options to find out if something else isn't at least marginally better than FF57.
- LeoJiWoo 9y ago
  Simply put yes. The big issue is I often switch between Browsers for work. So I often switch between Chrome, Firefox, and Opera with custom extensions for my workflow. With the amount of choice, I don't need to stick with a browser that makes my life harder than easier. Chrome is my main browser now, it was already getting close to majority usage for me.
  - addicted 9y ago
    I don't understand your comment. Are you saying that Chrome has extensions that Firefox doesnt? Or are you saying that you used Firefox because of certain extensions it had and other browsers didnt, but Chrome was still your primary browser, and that now the FF extensions you used don't work anymore, you don't see any reason to use FF anymore?
  - ancarda 9y ago
    Extensions you have for Chrome can work on Firefox with little to no modification. The extensions you rely on probably just need to be repacked into a WebExtension.
KozmoNau7 9y ago
Which extensions would that be?

ancarda 9y ago

What did you switch to? Was it due to extensions?

nwah1 9y ago
I feel like there's a lot of anti-Mozilla trolls on this particular comments section. Compared to most other articles on HN, it just doesn't align with the views I've heard elsewhere, and certainly doesn't align with my experience as a happy Firefox user.
- rnhmjoj 9y ago
  I have been using Firefox for about 5 years, I'm still using it and despite that I'm anti-Mozilla. The browser performance has always been fine to me and 57 doesn't look particularly "faster" as they are advertising it. I'm one of the dozen people that care about a browser being user configurable and not doing any analytics, telemetry, experiments,... . Mozilla has lately been working exactly against this. I have about 80KB of patch files just to remove all the crap Mozilla managed to stuff into an otherwise perfect browser like: advertisements, telemetry, more data sharing, geolocation using google servers, a social network and proprietary binary blobs for service integration. When I build a clean version of Firefox then I'm happy too.
- kk_cz 9y ago
  How do you tell "anti-Mozilla troll" from a genuinely dissapointed user? I'm currently on FF ESR, once my favorite extentsions stop working there I might as well switch the browser completely, since my UX will be completely reset just as it would be with a entirely different browser. I'm not saying I will switch to something else (other browsers seem equally unusable to me as FF57 is currently), but I will certainly try all the options to find out if something else isn't at least marginally better than FF57.
LeoJiWoo 9y ago
Simply put yes. The big issue is I often switch between Browsers for work. So I often switch between Chrome, Firefox, and Opera with custom extensions for my workflow. With the amount of choice, I don't need to stick with a browser that makes my life harder than easier. Chrome is my main browser now, it was already getting close to majority usage for me.
- addicted 9y ago
  I don't understand your comment. Are you saying that Chrome has extensions that Firefox doesnt? Or are you saying that you used Firefox because of certain extensions it had and other browsers didnt, but Chrome was still your primary browser, and that now the FF extensions you used don't work anymore, you don't see any reason to use FF anymore?
- ancarda 9y ago
  Extensions you have for Chrome can work on Firefox with little to no modification. The extensions you rely on probably just need to be repacked into a WebExtension.

KozmoNau7 9y ago

Which extensions would that be?