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For what is worth I think Firefox is the best browser for reasons already discussed here, but here’s the list of what I like ... Sync, awesome bar, tab manage
by bad_user 8y ago
For what is worth I think Firefox is the best browser for reasons already discussed here, but here’s the list of what I like ...
Sync, awesome bar, tab management, multi-account containers, trustworthiness in the add-ons I install (better reviews by humans) and resource usage especially with many tabs.
Firefox went through a very painful transition with Quantum due to invalidating many old extensions that people liked. However they managed to do the impossible imo, Firefox being better than ever and the ecosystem of add-ons is not in a bad shape either.
I also believe it was the right thing to do, because technically speaking it was inferior to Chrome’s multi-process architecture. The old add-ons system also had a big problem from the user's point of view ... Firefox had no permissions system in place and I like their review-based approach, but it doesn’t scale well.
So now after Quantum, I'm pretty sure Firefox will move on to innovate in its internals way past Chrome or Safari.
As a software developer I'm super psyched about what they are doing with Rust. Having a browser with components built in Rust, a super safe language, doesn't mean much for regular users, but it should translate in a more stable, safer and performant product.
And I don't know how many people appreciate this, but building a better language than C/C++ and then re-building components with it in an old and popular product, without breaking it, is super hard.