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I don't mean to be "that guy", but how is anyone seriously enthused about Firefox anymore when Chrome is on the scene? I love and respect Firefox for showing t

I don't mean to be "that guy", but how is anyone seriously enthused about Firefox anymore when Chrome is on the scene? I love and respect Firefox for showing the world there was a better way. But they are the Freud to a much more mature approach at this point. I can't use Firefox without wanting to injure myself within five minutes. It is dead to me.

sid0 16y ago
Chrome is a closed-source browser with a rigid failure of a UI and a sync feature that hands over all my bookmarks and history to Google. I can't even move the buttons around -- what a joke. How any privacy-conscious person can use Chrome is beyond me.
- dennylin93 16y ago
  Actually Chrome is built on top of Chromium, a BSD licensed browser. Try out Chromium if you're concerned about privacy.
  - sid0 16y ago
    It's still a rigid failure of a UI.
- mootothemax 16y ago
  I can't even move the buttons around I'm not sure I understand your logic here. Firefox won't let you separate the back and forwards buttons, is that also a "rigid failure" in UI design?
  - sid0 16y ago
    I want to move the refresh button to the right of the address bar, since that's what I'm used to. I can't. Back/forward together makes sense. Refresh next to back/forward isn't any better or worse than refresh to the right of the address bar, so it comes down to personal taste -- Chrome imposes its own taste upon me, while Firefox is happy to let me decide.
rue 16y ago
1. Extensions 2. Google
thristian 16y ago
I've been using Firefox as my daily browser since version 0.6 or so, and the Mozilla suite before that, so I know where everything is and I'm comfortable with how Gecko renders things. Of all the browsers I've tried on Linux, Firefox is the second-best integrated into the rest of my desktop (the best is Epiphany because it uses native widgets, but it's too minimalist for my liking). Firefox respects my font and antialiasing settings. Firefox 4 has "tab panorama" mode, which knocks Chrome's limited tab-handling into a cocked hat. Oh, and something about extensions, too.
viraptor 16y ago
Apart from all the privacy and UI stuff mentioned before. FF works. FF4 works even better. The question is not "why am I staying with FF", it's "why should I switch to something different"? It's not the IE "why should I switch" situation - FF supports basically every page and any popular HTML/CSS extension out there. I've got my extensions and configuration in place. Why should I bother?
blntechie 16y ago
See my reasons here. Tell me a solid reason "Why I should switch to Chrome?" 1) It's as modern as Chrome and renders web pages as well as or better than Chrome. 2) Chrome(Google) forces on me an UI I don't like. Firefox is extremely customizable and I can customize it to the last bit with extensions and little tweaking around. 3) Moreover as I have said before elsewhere FF + Sync + TMP + Adblock is unbeatable for me even though Chrome has equivalents. 4) Chrome (not Portable) installs itself into Users folders in Windows which I seriously dislike. Also take up huge space for storing it's Cache. 5) And I have some personal preferences which I miss in Chrome. (Selecting a text in Chrome does not snip the selection at the end of the line, it apply to the whole frame. Handling unresponsive web pages is better in Firefox for me etc...) Guess I have given enough reasons why i have not switched to Chrome.
ootachi 16y ago
I'm personally not sure there's much Firefox 4 is missing compared to Chrome at the moment. Can you explain what Chrome has that you'd like to see?

sid0 16y ago

Chrome is a closed-source browser with a rigid failure of a UI and a sync feature that hands over all my bookmarks and history to Google. I can't even move the buttons around -- what a joke. How any privacy-conscious person can use Chrome is beyond me.

dennylin93 16y ago
Actually Chrome is built on top of Chromium, a BSD licensed browser. Try out Chromium if you're concerned about privacy.
- sid0 16y ago
  It's still a rigid failure of a UI.
mootothemax 16y ago
I can't even move the buttons around I'm not sure I understand your logic here. Firefox won't let you separate the back and forwards buttons, is that also a "rigid failure" in UI design?
- sid0 16y ago
  I want to move the refresh button to the right of the address bar, since that's what I'm used to. I can't. Back/forward together makes sense. Refresh next to back/forward isn't any better or worse than refresh to the right of the address bar, so it comes down to personal taste -- Chrome imposes its own taste upon me, while Firefox is happy to let me decide.

rue 16y ago

1. Extensions 2. Google

thristian 16y ago

I've been using Firefox as my daily browser since version 0.6 or so, and the Mozilla suite before that, so I know where everything is and I'm comfortable with how Gecko renders things. Of all the browsers I've tried on Linux, Firefox is the second-best integrated into the rest of my desktop (the best is Epiphany because it uses native widgets, but it's too minimalist for my liking). Firefox respects my font and antialiasing settings. Firefox 4 has "tab panorama" mode, which knocks Chrome's limited tab-handling into a cocked hat. Oh, and something about extensions, too.

viraptor 16y ago

Apart from all the privacy and UI stuff mentioned before. FF works. FF4 works even better. The question is not "why am I staying with FF", it's "why should I switch to something different"? It's not the IE "why should I switch" situation - FF supports basically every page and any popular HTML/CSS extension out there. I've got my extensions and configuration in place. Why should I bother?

blntechie 16y ago

See my reasons here. Tell me a solid reason "Why I should switch to Chrome?" 1) It's as modern as Chrome and renders web pages as well as or better than Chrome. 2) Chrome(Google) forces on me an UI I don't like. Firefox is extremely customizable and I can customize it to the last bit with extensions and little tweaking around. 3) Moreover as I have said before elsewhere FF + Sync + TMP + Adblock is unbeatable for me even though Chrome has equivalents. 4) Chrome (not Portable) installs itself into Users folders in Windows which I seriously dislike. Also take up huge space for storing it's Cache. 5) And I have some personal preferences which I miss in Chrome. (Selecting a text in Chrome does not snip the selection at the end of the line, it apply to the whole frame. Handling unresponsive web pages is better in Firefox for me etc...) Guess I have given enough reasons why i have not switched to Chrome.

ootachi 16y ago

I'm personally not sure there's much Firefox 4 is missing compared to Chrome at the moment. Can you explain what Chrome has that you'd like to see?