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It's great Firefox 'is back' but I never really left, and when I did try to use Chrome I just felt a bit 'dirty'. For me, whether FF is faster or slower than C

It's great Firefox 'is back' but I never really left, and when I did try to use Chrome I just felt a bit 'dirty'. For me, whether FF is faster or slower than Chrome is largely irrelevent (unless ofc it's extreme). What matters to me is that it feels like Mozilla are fighting for me, and Chrome are fighting for the advertising revenue. Mozilla, for all their mistakes, do care about their users and privacy (but make some stupid mistakes).

MaxBarraclough 8y ago
Agree. They're not-for-profit (well, mostly - Mozilla has a famously curious structure) and generally share my appreciation of privacy and FOSS values. But sometimes they really drop the ball. And by 'sometimes', I mean 'repeatedly'. * The time they dragged their heels fixing a bug whereby Firefox didn't clear IndexedDB when it clearly should have [0] * Integrating with a proprietary bookmark-management solution, 'Pocket', presumably for the money [1][2] * Making it difficult to disable address-bar search (no, I don't want Google getting a record of every URL I type in) [3] * Their general mismanagement isn't really the point here, but it's still true: dumbing down the UI and turning Firefox into a me-too Chrome and annoying power-users, breaking plugin compatibility (Firefox's big killer feature), and pretending for the longest time that their performance was competitive with Chrome when it quite clearly wasn't (evidenced in the release of Quantum, when they finally really were performance-competitive with Chrome). Also the Mr. Robot fiasco. [0] https://superuser.com/a/1250955/ https://superuser.com/a/1250955/ [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9876504 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9876504 [2] https://news.slashdot.org/story/15/06/09/1722236/mozilla-responds-to-firefox-user-backlash-over-pocket-integration https://news.slashdot.org/story/15/06/09/1722236/mozilla-res... [3] https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1134010 https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1134010

MaxBarraclough 8y ago

Agree. They're not-for-profit (well, mostly - Mozilla has a famously curious structure) and generally share my appreciation of privacy and FOSS values. But sometimes they really drop the ball. And by 'sometimes', I mean 'repeatedly'. * The time they dragged their heels fixing a bug whereby Firefox didn't clear IndexedDB when it clearly should have [0] * Integrating with a proprietary bookmark-management solution, 'Pocket', presumably for the money [1][2] * Making it difficult to disable address-bar search (no, I don't want Google getting a record of every URL I type in) [3] * Their general mismanagement isn't really the point here, but it's still true: dumbing down the UI and turning Firefox into a me-too Chrome and annoying power-users, breaking plugin compatibility (Firefox's big killer feature), and pretending for the longest time that their performance was competitive with Chrome when it quite clearly wasn't (evidenced in the release of Quantum, when they finally really were performance-competitive with Chrome). Also the Mr. Robot fiasco. [0] https://superuser.com/a/1250955/ https://superuser.com/a/1250955/ [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9876504 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9876504 [2] https://news.slashdot.org/story/15/06/09/1722236/mozilla-responds-to-firefox-user-backlash-over-pocket-integration https://news.slashdot.org/story/15/06/09/1722236/mozilla-res... [3] https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1134010 https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1134010