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I interpreted the comment to mean, they run old FF (with extensions) alongside chrome (incompatible), because they don't want to run two versions of FF. I don't

I interpreted the comment to mean, they run old FF (with extensions) alongside chrome (incompatible), because they don't want to run two versions of FF. I don't quite understand this either, but it makes more sense than the other interpretation, I think.

Causality1 7y ago
Bingo. DownThemAll is something I would describe as "mission-critical". I had trouble getting two different versions of Firefox to not interfere with one another in odd ways such as everything running fine until I open a file with Firefox as the associated program and one version would open but have all the settings from the other version and Portable Firefox refusing to save settings or extensions at all. Using Chrome for casual browsing was just less of a headache.
- gruez 7y ago
  >I had trouble getting two different versions of Firefox to not interfere with one another This shouldn't be an issue if you run your secondary instance with -no-remote -profile="your separate profile". >Using Chrome for casual browsing was just less of a headache. That still doesn't answer the original question though. Why choose chrome over firefox, when it has no legacy firefox extensions? Does chrome have those legacy extensions' features built in? Was chrome better than firefox, and the only thing keeping you on was the legacy extensions?
  - Causality1 7y ago
    I run both Chrome and Legacy Firefox at the same time.
  - smolder 7y ago
    Because they want an up to date browser for purposes that don't require the extension.
- toxican 7y ago
  FWIW, DownloadThemAll works fine on current Firefox. I used it a few weeks back to grab a bunch of SNES roms from an open directory without issue. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/downthemall/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/downthemall/
  - Causality1 7y ago
    Hey that's fantastic, thanks for the info. I'd given up hope.

Causality1 7y ago

Bingo. DownThemAll is something I would describe as "mission-critical". I had trouble getting two different versions of Firefox to not interfere with one another in odd ways such as everything running fine until I open a file with Firefox as the associated program and one version would open but have all the settings from the other version and Portable Firefox refusing to save settings or extensions at all. Using Chrome for casual browsing was just less of a headache.

gruez 7y ago
>I had trouble getting two different versions of Firefox to not interfere with one another This shouldn't be an issue if you run your secondary instance with -no-remote -profile="your separate profile". >Using Chrome for casual browsing was just less of a headache. That still doesn't answer the original question though. Why choose chrome over firefox, when it has no legacy firefox extensions? Does chrome have those legacy extensions' features built in? Was chrome better than firefox, and the only thing keeping you on was the legacy extensions?
- Causality1 7y ago
  I run both Chrome and Legacy Firefox at the same time.
- smolder 7y ago
  Because they want an up to date browser for purposes that don't require the extension.
toxican 7y ago
FWIW, DownloadThemAll works fine on current Firefox. I used it a few weeks back to grab a bunch of SNES roms from an open directory without issue. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/downthemall/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/downthemall/
- Causality1 7y ago
  Hey that's fantastic, thanks for the info. I'd given up hope.