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Firefox is on a serious roll this year, from performance improvements to actual privacy hardening that matters. Since Chrome rolled out auto-login, I've made it

by icefog 7y ago

Firefox is on a serious roll this year, from performance improvements to actual privacy hardening that matters. Since Chrome rolled out auto-login, I've made it my personal mission to stop using it, and now I'm realizing I haven't even installed Chrome on my newly imaged laptop. I doubt I'll have any reason to switch back.

rafaelvasco 7y ago
Installed Firefox in my new machine and never looked back. Before I used Chrome, Yandex, Vivaldi and Opera. Only miss Yandex much superior native start page;
giancarlostoro 7y ago
Wow I agree, this is one hell of an update! I'm in awe of the improvements for the developer tools.
nashashmi 7y ago
There are a couple of websites that Firefox doesn't work. Same experience on mobile. But Chrome works all the time.
- drak0n1c 7y ago
  For those cases having Brave or another Chromium browser as a backup works well.
- Enginerrrd 7y ago
  This is absolutely true, though I have still switched to Firefox and no longer use Chrome. I've taken to filing bug reports or reaching out on the "contact us" page of websites when I find a feature isn't working correctly on firefox.
  - iudqnolq 7y ago
    Sometimes those are FF bugs (or "bugs", but FF wants to fix them anyway), and you can report them to the firefox-run https://webcompat.com https://webcompat.com through the menu. > People expect websites to work regardless of the device or browser they are using. When a site works in one browser but not another, that is most likely a web compatibility bug that we want to know about. I reported an inline-svg rendering bug in FF preview. It only took a minute or two, and a volunteer responding within a day that they had replicated the problem and moved it to a Github issue, which frankly amazed me.
kup0 7y ago
Yep. After trying all sorts of browsers for months at a time, I've come back home to Firefox. Despite Mozilla's occasional off-track behavior (Mr. Robot add-on, Pocket, etc) I still think they are hands-down the best option. That's truly saying something that if Firefox can screw up every now and then but still feel worlds ahead of other browsers in terms of their approach to web browser building, and that's how it feels to me. Chrome auto-login was the thing that made me leave Chrome for good. That was the turning point, and it's been a long time since. Manifest v3 is just another nail in the coffin for me personally.

by icefog 7y ago

rafaelvasco 7y ago

Installed Firefox in my new machine and never looked back. Before I used Chrome, Yandex, Vivaldi and Opera. Only miss Yandex much superior native start page;

giancarlostoro 7y ago

Wow I agree, this is one hell of an update! I'm in awe of the improvements for the developer tools.

nashashmi 7y ago

There are a couple of websites that Firefox doesn't work. Same experience on mobile. But Chrome works all the time.

drak0n1c 7y ago
For those cases having Brave or another Chromium browser as a backup works well.
Enginerrrd 7y ago
This is absolutely true, though I have still switched to Firefox and no longer use Chrome. I've taken to filing bug reports or reaching out on the "contact us" page of websites when I find a feature isn't working correctly on firefox.
- iudqnolq 7y ago
  Sometimes those are FF bugs (or "bugs", but FF wants to fix them anyway), and you can report them to the firefox-run https://webcompat.com https://webcompat.com through the menu. > People expect websites to work regardless of the device or browser they are using. When a site works in one browser but not another, that is most likely a web compatibility bug that we want to know about. I reported an inline-svg rendering bug in FF preview. It only took a minute or two, and a volunteer responding within a day that they had replicated the problem and moved it to a Github issue, which frankly amazed me.

kup0 7y ago

Yep. After trying all sorts of browsers for months at a time, I've come back home to Firefox. Despite Mozilla's occasional off-track behavior (Mr. Robot add-on, Pocket, etc) I still think they are hands-down the best option. That's truly saying something that if Firefox can screw up every now and then but still feel worlds ahead of other browsers in terms of their approach to web browser building, and that's how it feels to me. Chrome auto-login was the thing that made me leave Chrome for good. That was the turning point, and it's been a long time since. Manifest v3 is just another nail in the coffin for me personally.