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Chrome is a really nice browser, but we're creating a monopoly for it, not Google, ourselves. I'm not going to talk about Google being evil or not. But as hist

by dpecos 8y ago

Chrome is a really nice browser, but we're creating a monopoly for it, not Google, ourselves. I'm not going to talk about Google being evil or not. But as history has shown, monopolies never result in anything good for the people. That's why I'm choosing Firefox as my day to day browser, not because it's better or free from a controlling enterprise, but because I want to keep the web as an open and diverse system, and for that, we need different players to play in equal conditions. It's up to every one of us to achieve this, and to be honest, what are you missing in Firefox that Chrome does? It's quite a nice and decent browser nowadays.

ChristianBundy 8y ago
I love Firefox, but I'd also recommend Epiphany. It's basically Safari but for Linux, maintained by GNOME and integrated with Firefox Sync. Best of all possible worlds. https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Web https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Web
- LeoPanthera 8y ago
  I use Epiphany on both my desktop (Fedora) and my laptop (OpenBSD). It's nearly perfect, but it's annoyingly crashy. Random web pages (usually news sites, weirdly) will make it bomb right out.
nothis 8y ago
It’s our fault? Good luck betting on the general population researching alternatives, then. I use Firefox religiously but have no illusions that it will take over because people’s idealism.
- ric2b 8y ago
  > It’s our fault? Probably talking about Web Developers, of which there are many here.
rc_mob 8y ago
Oh. I just think FF is a better browser. Never liked Chrome at all.
- IamAHuman 8y ago
  I tried switching from Chrome (actually I use chromium) to Firefox, but I switched back after one day. I didn't have any problems with any websites in Firefox, but the user interface of Firefox is just lightyears behind Chrome. What really was a deal breaker for me is how Firefox handles tabs, it's just not usable if you open more than 15 tabs in total because you can't move more than one tab at a time. When I look online for say a RAM upgrade for my computer, I open a few tabs with online shops, then I open a new tab for each product, now there are ~40 tabs open and I want to move half of them to the beginning of the tab bar or to a new window. In chrome I press shift, select multiple tabs and move them, In Firefox I have to drag each tab to it's new position one after another. In about:config there's a flag to enable tab multiselect, but you still can't move more than one tab at a time. There's a few more minor issues like this and a 5 year old unfixed bug with tiling window managers in Firefox. With Firefox I just spend more time fighting the browser than browsing the web.
  - Yoric 8y ago
    I generally have ~300 tabs open on Firefox without problem. If tabs are the main issue for you, can I suggest you give a try to the Tree Style Tabs extension?
  - systemcluster 8y ago
    I just tried it, and moving multiple selected tabs does work in Firefox 64 (Dev Edition).
    - IamAHuman 8y ago
      If that's the case I'll give it a try again, last time I tried Firefox it had version 62, so that must be a recent change.
Avamander 8y ago
> It's up to every one of us to achieve this, and to be honest, what are you missing in Firefox that Chrome does? Working hardware acceleration that makes videos play instead of stutter.

by dpecos 8y ago

ChristianBundy 8y ago

I love Firefox, but I'd also recommend Epiphany. It's basically Safari but for Linux, maintained by GNOME and integrated with Firefox Sync. Best of all possible worlds. https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Web https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Web

LeoPanthera 8y ago
I use Epiphany on both my desktop (Fedora) and my laptop (OpenBSD). It's nearly perfect, but it's annoyingly crashy. Random web pages (usually news sites, weirdly) will make it bomb right out.

nothis 8y ago

It’s our fault? Good luck betting on the general population researching alternatives, then. I use Firefox religiously but have no illusions that it will take over because people’s idealism.

ric2b 8y ago
> It’s our fault? Probably talking about Web Developers, of which there are many here.

rc_mob 8y ago

Oh. I just think FF is a better browser. Never liked Chrome at all.

IamAHuman 8y ago
I tried switching from Chrome (actually I use chromium) to Firefox, but I switched back after one day. I didn't have any problems with any websites in Firefox, but the user interface of Firefox is just lightyears behind Chrome. What really was a deal breaker for me is how Firefox handles tabs, it's just not usable if you open more than 15 tabs in total because you can't move more than one tab at a time. When I look online for say a RAM upgrade for my computer, I open a few tabs with online shops, then I open a new tab for each product, now there are ~40 tabs open and I want to move half of them to the beginning of the tab bar or to a new window. In chrome I press shift, select multiple tabs and move them, In Firefox I have to drag each tab to it's new position one after another. In about:config there's a flag to enable tab multiselect, but you still can't move more than one tab at a time. There's a few more minor issues like this and a 5 year old unfixed bug with tiling window managers in Firefox. With Firefox I just spend more time fighting the browser than browsing the web.
- Yoric 8y ago
  I generally have ~300 tabs open on Firefox without problem. If tabs are the main issue for you, can I suggest you give a try to the Tree Style Tabs extension?
- systemcluster 8y ago
  I just tried it, and moving multiple selected tabs does work in Firefox 64 (Dev Edition).
  - IamAHuman 8y ago
    If that's the case I'll give it a try again, last time I tried Firefox it had version 62, so that must be a recent change.

Avamander 8y ago

> It's up to every one of us to achieve this, and to be honest, what are you missing in Firefox that Chrome does? Working hardware acceleration that makes videos play instead of stutter.