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I have several reasons for not using Firefox: Font rendering looks non-native on most platforms. Scrolling behavior seems non-native on most platforms. The c

I have several reasons for not using Firefox: Font rendering looks non-native on most platforms. Scrolling behavior seems non-native on most platforms. The combined location/search bar seems slower, and gives less useful results, than the same feature in other browsers. Inferior developer tools. Mozilla's marketing portraying itself as the white knight of the open web is tiresome and contradicted by past behavior. Pocket is still installed by default, and remember the Mr. Robot scandal? Tracking is easily defeated in other browsers. Besides, if you use Gmail and Google search, and watch videos on Youtube, you've already decided to give your data to Google and you might as well use Chrome too.

wolco 6y ago
What platform are you using?
Semaphor 6y ago
> Inferior developer tools. Very much an opinion, I prefer the Firefox dev tools, especially with the recent changes. And while I can’t speak for other OS, scrolling and font rendering looks native on Windows and has for years.
- WorldMaker 6y ago
  I find most people that complain about Firefox dev tools other than just not knowing where the cheese is stored often just need slight tweaks to their sourcemaps. That problem is self-reinforcing because so many developers only test in Chrome that some of the biggest tools in the ecosystem (webpack, for a big for instance) default to sourcemaps that only work in Chrome, when they could just easily produce sourcemaps that work in both.
kiwijamo 6y ago
Your font rendering remark stands out as a odd remark. I use Firefox as a daily driver across my own PC (Windows), my work laptop (Mac) and on my phone (Android). Font rendering looks fine across all three platforms. Perhaps it seems better to me because Firefox renders things the same way across all platforms (even if it differs from native)? I think I quite like how Firefox renders things the same way regardless of which device I am using. Makes it easier for me to context switch between my devices.
sjellis 6y ago
> Mozilla's marketing portraying itself as the white knight of the open web is tiresome and contradicted by past behavior. Pocket is still installed by default, and remember the Mr. Robot scandal? Here, the perfect is the enemy of the good. Firefox is the only Web browser that is not owned by a giant for-profit company with a vested interest in controlling your computing platform.

wolco 6y ago

What platform are you using?

Semaphor 6y ago

> Inferior developer tools. Very much an opinion, I prefer the Firefox dev tools, especially with the recent changes. And while I can’t speak for other OS, scrolling and font rendering looks native on Windows and has for years.

WorldMaker 6y ago
I find most people that complain about Firefox dev tools other than just not knowing where the cheese is stored often just need slight tweaks to their sourcemaps. That problem is self-reinforcing because so many developers only test in Chrome that some of the biggest tools in the ecosystem (webpack, for a big for instance) default to sourcemaps that only work in Chrome, when they could just easily produce sourcemaps that work in both.

kiwijamo 6y ago

Your font rendering remark stands out as a odd remark. I use Firefox as a daily driver across my own PC (Windows), my work laptop (Mac) and on my phone (Android). Font rendering looks fine across all three platforms. Perhaps it seems better to me because Firefox renders things the same way across all platforms (even if it differs from native)? I think I quite like how Firefox renders things the same way regardless of which device I am using. Makes it easier for me to context switch between my devices.

sjellis 6y ago

> Mozilla's marketing portraying itself as the white knight of the open web is tiresome and contradicted by past behavior. Pocket is still installed by default, and remember the Mr. Robot scandal? Here, the perfect is the enemy of the good. Firefox is the only Web browser that is not owned by a giant for-profit company with a vested interest in controlling your computing platform.