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As a developer and power user, it's difficult for me to switch to Firefox. However for most average Joe's it's fine and won't make a difference, so I always in
by TheKarateKid 7y ago
As a developer and power user, it's difficult for me to switch to Firefox.
However for most average Joe's it's fine and won't make a difference, so I always install and recommend Firefox when I play IT guy for family/friends. Time to start doing this again like we did in 2005!! It worked then and it can now!
- dgellow 7y agoI’m a developer and power user, I switched to Firefox months ago. What is making difficult to switch? I found equivalent for all my plugins so far.
- sailfast 7y agoSame here. I'd also highly recommend Firefox Focus for mobile. Now to convince my enterprise network admins... It would probably take me a bit to figure out exactly how to work with the FireFox advanced debugging tools, but it's familiar territory.
- tomjen3 7y agoWhat is the equivalent for one tab? It is technically simple enough that I could develop one one my own, except I remember firefox extensions to be an unbelievable pain to install back in the day.
- abdullahkhalids 7y agoIf you want the ability to save lists of Tabs, Firefox has https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tree-style-tab/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tree-style-ta... which makes tabs appear in the sidebar, which makes managing even dozens of tabs simple. Installing is one click - as simple as the chrome web store. If you want the ability to unload tabs, firefox struggles with it. The best addon is https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/unload-tabs/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/unload-tabs/ but it admits that it is buggy. Haven't tried it though.
- depressedpanda 7y agoYou don't need an equivalent, One Tab is available for Firefox also.
- feedbeef 7y agoI've had a terrible time using Firefox since Tab Mix Plus was killed. Dev is working on a replacement but many of the necessary APIs were also killed in the great add-on death of 2017 (Firefox 57), and have yet to be rewritten (and may never be).
- TheKarateKid 7y agoWhat many others have already said - it's slower and many popular sites don't work properly on it. I don't feel like randomly having websites break when I am trying to get things done. Even on a newer computer Firefox feels jagged and hangs. Memory leaks still happening years later. It is so frustrating to see Firefox using 1.5GB of RAM when only 2 tabs remain. Quantum helped a lot, but it's still not enough for me and many others.
- wtetzner 7y agoReally? Firefox feels faster to me than Chrome at this point. I use both for work, but I prefer Firefox at home. What popular sites don't work in Firefox?
- dgellow 7y ago> many popular sites don't work properly on it Really? Do you have examples? I haven’t faced this issue. Some websites breaks somehow if you block 3rd party tracking (by breaking I mean that some pictures or video embedded into the page won’t load), but that’s an opt-in feature so I don’t think that’s what you mean.
- fimdomeio 7y agoI suffered with the same until around december last year. Ever since I cannot distinguish chrome from firefox most of the time.
- HelloNurse 7y agoPopular sites? If they work only with Chrome they aren't popular sites for me, and I'm happy to know that I shouldn't trust them too much.
- jaredklewis 7y agoAs a developer and—I think—power user, I use Firefox without issue. What developer tools available in chrome but not firefox?
- TheKarateKid 7y agoPHPStorm IDE Support, Netbeans Connector are both only available for Chrome. Not a game changer but it certainly makes using Firefox less convenient.
- iruoy 7y agoCheck out browsersync if you want some of that functionality with any browser. https://www.browsersync.io/ https://www.browsersync.io/
- mattferderer 7y agoI consider myself the same. I quit using Chrome & started using Brave about a year ago. I haven't looked back or missed Chrome. What would you be missing? Edge & Firefox have also been useful in the same way I once used Opera (special tasks where their features really shine). I really liked Edge's reading mode & for just browsing websites it was great.
- noisem4ker 7y agoAs a power user, I prefer Firefox to Chrome, due to its configurability and to the power of certain add-ons. One simple example: multi-row tab bar, thanks to custom CSS for the UI. It used to be even better before the mass murder of the now-called "legacy" extensions, but today we must settle for the less restricted offer. As a developer, I don't typically use browsers as debuggers or programming environments, so I never experienced game-breaking differences.
- chx 7y ago> It used to be even better before the mass murder of the now-called "legacy" extensions, I can't even switch because one of the vital extensions for my workflow do not exist any more and the author of the Chrome equivalent doesn't want to port it. (I even offered a little money, I probably can't pay enough for an experienced developer to do the full port.)
- mappu 7y ago> I can't even switch Wait, you haven't had a security update for your browser since 2017?
- chx 7y agoNo, I am running Chrome for a long time now. I use an extension there which doesn't exist for Firefox. An equivalent existed in the old Firefox. I made an attempt at porting it but my JS skills are super meagre.