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A smaller top panel? Really? I switched to Chrome because of 3 major things: 1) I can open and close it at least 3 times in the time that it takes Firefox to
by larrik 16y ago
A smaller top panel? Really?
I switched to Chrome because of 3 major things:
1) I can open and close it at least 3 times in the time that it takes Firefox to open. If a Firefox extension needs updates, then it's more like 12 times.
2) I had to occasionally open all of my bookmarks from a folder (15 or so). Doing this in Firefox would take something like 15 minutes, and most of the tabs would just fail. Chrome would do it nearly instantly, and act like it was no big deal.
3) The newer Firefoxes completely broke the shift-reload to clear the cache option. I still haven't found a decent way to force a complete fresh page load in Firefox 3.5+, which means it's a nearly useless for development. Chrome works great this way, and Firefox used to, but now Firefox creates a duplicate tab instead with the same shortcut? Wha? (I'm not actually sure which version of Firefox broke this)
Combine this with things like the fact that Chrome will let you have a regular session PLUS one or more Incognito sessions (extremely useful for developing websites with login or other state, or even just for keeping two different GMails open), or that the default tab behavior in Firefox has always been pretty weak, and Firefox just has a long way to go to win me back.
It makes me sad, because all things being equal, I'd rather support Mozilla than Google any day.
- pcwalton 16y agoIf these issues still happen in Firefox 4, I would be very happy to debug them if you can reproduce.