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How much worse than chrome is firefox actually? I use firefox beta on a 500$ laptop with ubuntu mate and i'm more than satisfied with the speed and general perf

How much worse than chrome is firefox actually? I use firefox beta on a 500$ laptop with ubuntu mate and i'm more than satisfied with the speed and general performance. Privacy has been a very hot topic on HN lately (or has always been) and now i see people complaining over silly little things on firefox than make them go back to Chrome. How can we complain for the monopoly of Google Facebook etc, when we can't stand using a very good, competent and open source product that respects our privacy despite some minor bugs? Is firefox really so bad that you're willing to give everything to Google?

mehta 9y ago
One data point: it is not bad at all. I use Firefox as my primary browser(having used chrome on and off for many years) and it works well for almost everything. There are occasional sites that don't behave with ff and for those I go to chrome. Even the andoid version is not bad (the only problem is that is is harder to avoid chrome due to smaller issues with websites).
- Timshel 9y ago
  Support for ublock origin on the android mobile version make it so useful.
Timshel 9y ago
Sadly not many mentions of privacy in their roadmap (outside of grouping controls). Things like "container tab" could allow them to really differentiate from Chrome ...
- yscik 9y ago
  They already have containers: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multi-account-containers/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multi-account... Though I would prefer if it were a bit harder to accidentally leave a container when opening a new tab.
- mintplant 9y ago
  Did you skim and miss how they plan on blocking intrusive ads and cross-domain tracking/retargeting by default, and improving the existing tracking protection functionality? There are certainly more mentions of privacy than you cite.
  - Timshel 9y ago
    Guilty, thank you :). I was hoping to see it higher.
jccalhoun 9y ago
>How much worse than chrome is firefox actually? I don't think it is worse at all. I use both and usually have firefox on my main monitor and chrome on my second monitor

mehta 9y ago

One data point: it is not bad at all. I use Firefox as my primary browser(having used chrome on and off for many years) and it works well for almost everything. There are occasional sites that don't behave with ff and for those I go to chrome. Even the andoid version is not bad (the only problem is that is is harder to avoid chrome due to smaller issues with websites).

Timshel 9y ago
Support for ublock origin on the android mobile version make it so useful.

Timshel 9y ago

Sadly not many mentions of privacy in their roadmap (outside of grouping controls). Things like "container tab" could allow them to really differentiate from Chrome ...

yscik 9y ago
They already have containers: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multi-account-containers/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multi-account... Though I would prefer if it were a bit harder to accidentally leave a container when opening a new tab.
mintplant 9y ago
Did you skim and miss how they plan on blocking intrusive ads and cross-domain tracking/retargeting by default, and improving the existing tracking protection functionality? There are certainly more mentions of privacy than you cite.
- Timshel 9y ago
  Guilty, thank you :). I was hoping to see it higher.

jccalhoun 9y ago

>How much worse than chrome is firefox actually? I don't think it is worse at all. I use both and usually have firefox on my main monitor and chrome on my second monitor