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I always find it curious in the Chrome vs. Firefox discussion, that while people bash chrome and think of Firefox as the truly free alternative, in the end, eve
by Grumbledour 7y ago
I always find it curious in the Chrome vs. Firefox discussion, that while people bash chrome and think of Firefox as the truly free alternative, in the end, even in this very technical community here, many people still choose Chrome. Now, I got the theory that this has to do with many techies here being US based, there are probably lots of you using Macs and from what I understand, Firefox on Mac is even worse than Chrome on Mac? But really, I never understood it at all, because I never experienced Firefox as "unusable slow" as I hear people often complain about and thus I never switched to Chrome, because I felt it offered far more annoyances than the slightly lower speed of Firefox in comparison.
But what I am getting at, even now, that many people are starting to get really critical about Chrome and when Firefox seems to have redeemed itself regarding speed, many here still seem to think, Chrome is the end-all-be-all. And with that attitude, you have to wonder, is it really google holding Firefox back or is it us, the experts, who in large parts seem not to use it, while still preaching how bad chrome/google is becoming. If there is no easily pointed to technical superiority to Chrome, why are we not all using Firefox and installing it on our families and friends computers?
And a bit unrelated: Reading this rant on twitter is just ridiculous. Get a blog, dude!
- xbmcuser 7y agoChrome was faster than Firefox and Internet explorer. And rarely took the whole pc down after a crash unlike the other 2 so people moved of them to Chrome unless something like that happens where some major websites become completely unusable on Chrome few people are going to move of it now. And as Google owns many of the most used websites on the web that is unlikely to happen now. People complain about Google a lot but majority of the web tech has improved because of Google research directly or indirectly being open sourced
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- kuroguro 7y agoThe devtools are just better (tm).
- timw4mail 7y agoExcept they aren't. I'd bet most people saying this haven't used Firefox dev tools in a long time.
- Zyst 7y agoI had one of my juniors who uses Firefox install Chrome to use those dev tools 4 months ago, because Firefox was just throwing garbage in the stack traces, while Chrome had transparent React code. Not that it'd be a deal breaker for me, but he now debugs in Chrome when necessary, and still uses Firefox as his daily driver. I'm sure there's something we could've changed for Firefox to work too, but for what it's worth we didn't do anything in particular for it to work in Chrome.
- kuroguro 7y agoFWIW ff is my primary browser, I still turn to Chrome for debugging complicated js stuff.
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- Izkata 7y ago> there are probably lots of you using Macs and from what I understand, Firefox on Mac is even worse than Chrome on Mac? From what I've read (I use Firefox on Ubuntu), there's a longstanding bug with Firefox on Macs using a scaled resolution that causes it to become unusably slow.
- TMWNN 7y agoIs that what it is? I can testify that, under equal load (hundreds/thousands of open tabs), Firefox on Mac is indeed unbearably slow at everything in a way that Chrome isn't.
- pg_is_a_butt 7y agoI use a mac. I use scaled resolution. I use firefox. It is faster than chrome since the quantum update.