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Firefox just keeps looking better and better. Lots of features added and QoL increases. I have switched over to using it for general browsing, but continue to u

Firefox just keeps looking better and better. Lots of features added and QoL increases. I have switched over to using it for general browsing, but continue to use chrome for development. That might be changing real soon!

meddlin 7y ago
I frequently find myself bouncing between them for development, but lately...I'm not really sure why. FF has everything I need. Even a dark mode (Chrome does too, I think).
- eitland 7y ago
  I might be a top 5% Firefox fan and I dislike Chrome. I'll still keep a Chromium instance around to test in when I do frontend work. Luckily though if it works in Firefox then it usually[0] works in all other browsers as well. [0]: While doing Android development I can remember once where it failed in Chrome but worked in Firefox.
soperj 7y ago
You should try Firefox Developer Edition. Once I started, I ditched Chrome entirely.
- chrisweekly 7y ago
  Same
- open-paren 7y ago
  What's the difference other than being an alpha (2 major versions ahead) and having some nicer default settings?
  - WorldMaker 7y ago
    No Google telemetry, for a start.
space_ghost 7y ago
I'm the opposite - I use Chrome for general browsing and Firefox for development. Firefox's developer tools are better for the types of work I do.
- vanderZwan 7y ago
  I'm guessing more CSS than JavaScript debugging for you? That's where the difference in dev tool strength is for me at the moment, at least.
  - zamalek 7y ago
    I use FF for both, only using Chrome to test and debug cross-browser. I haven't really found I needed anything more than FF offers for JS debugging, but I guess you can't miss what you don't know.
    - vanderZwan 7y ago
      It's actually purely a performance issue, and I honestly don't know what is causing it. I suspect there might be certain quirks in certain frameworks that I use that make the FF debugger slow down to a crawl, while Chrome handles it just fine.
CamJN 7y ago
Ironically today's bump of Firefox dev edition to 72.0b1 introduced a really ugly UI regression on macOS. However the QOL improvements are nice.
- baggy_trough 7y ago
  I do like Firefox for political reasons, but the UI is pretty bad looking on macOS compared to Chrome or (especially) Safari.
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  - savoytruffle 7y ago
    The contextual menus keep getting weirder and weirder looking so now I guess it's hard to tell if they support Dark Mode or not.

meddlin 7y ago

I frequently find myself bouncing between them for development, but lately...I'm not really sure why. FF has everything I need. Even a dark mode (Chrome does too, I think).

eitland 7y ago
I might be a top 5% Firefox fan and I dislike Chrome. I'll still keep a Chromium instance around to test in when I do frontend work. Luckily though if it works in Firefox then it usually[0] works in all other browsers as well. [0]: While doing Android development I can remember once where it failed in Chrome but worked in Firefox.

soperj 7y ago

You should try Firefox Developer Edition. Once I started, I ditched Chrome entirely.

chrisweekly 7y ago
Same
open-paren 7y ago
What's the difference other than being an alpha (2 major versions ahead) and having some nicer default settings?
- WorldMaker 7y ago
  No Google telemetry, for a start.

space_ghost 7y ago

I'm the opposite - I use Chrome for general browsing and Firefox for development. Firefox's developer tools are better for the types of work I do.

vanderZwan 7y ago
I'm guessing more CSS than JavaScript debugging for you? That's where the difference in dev tool strength is for me at the moment, at least.
- zamalek 7y ago
  I use FF for both, only using Chrome to test and debug cross-browser. I haven't really found I needed anything more than FF offers for JS debugging, but I guess you can't miss what you don't know.
  - vanderZwan 7y ago
    It's actually purely a performance issue, and I honestly don't know what is causing it. I suspect there might be certain quirks in certain frameworks that I use that make the FF debugger slow down to a crawl, while Chrome handles it just fine.

CamJN 7y ago

Ironically today's bump of Firefox dev edition to 72.0b1 introduced a really ugly UI regression on macOS. However the QOL improvements are nice.

baggy_trough 7y ago
I do like Firefox for political reasons, but the UI is pretty bad looking on macOS compared to Chrome or (especially) Safari.
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- savoytruffle 7y ago
  The contextual menus keep getting weirder and weirder looking so now I guess it's hard to tell if they support Dark Mode or not.