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I wish more people with give Firefox a honest try. I've been using it for years and I love it. It's very rare that I need to pull up Chrome to use a site, and

by arpyzo 6y ago

I wish more people with give Firefox a honest try. I've been using it for years and I love it. It's very rare that I need to pull up Chrome to use a site, and frankly I blame the website developer. How hard is it to write a web application that works in Firefox? IMO, one has to be pretty sloppy or lazy to wind up creating a Chrome-only site. Firefox allows me to customize it exactly that way I want, and it's reached the point where I haven't been forced to change that look and feel in a long time. It has a ton of cool features I haven't even had a chance to take advantage yet, such as setting up my own sync server. That said, it has its warts, and the developer's decisions have frustrated me at times, but this goes for pretty much any software that gets "upgraded" on a regular basis. Give is a shot. You might find you like it more than you expected.

PascLeRasc 6y ago
Firefox seems to grow on me more and more every day. I really like all the integrations like reader mode, picture-in-picture, the new email alias stuff. There’s a lot that I don’t care about like containers or whatever the special tab system is, but I like that they’re trying new ideas.
toyg 6y ago
Yeah, I use Firefox and every time I see these pessimist statements like “omg i have to open a site in Chrome _constantly_” I shake my head. I’ve not touched Chrome in years, on Windows and MacOs, and I surf my fair amount of the wavy web. I even uninstalled it on my personal laptop. If one in a billion sites doesn’t work in FF (which, again, has not happened to me in years, except for intranet sites meant to work only with IE6...), just have a dedicated launcher for it, or even better tell their support you’re dropping them because of that. And if that broken site is a Google property: it’s well-known that they do it on purpose, you’re literally giving in to the school bully shaking you down for lunch money. Grow a spine.

by arpyzo 6y ago

PascLeRasc 6y ago

Firefox seems to grow on me more and more every day. I really like all the integrations like reader mode, picture-in-picture, the new email alias stuff. There’s a lot that I don’t care about like containers or whatever the special tab system is, but I like that they’re trying new ideas.

toyg 6y ago

Yeah, I use Firefox and every time I see these pessimist statements like “omg i have to open a site in Chrome _constantly_” I shake my head. I’ve not touched Chrome in years, on Windows and MacOs, and I surf my fair amount of the wavy web. I even uninstalled it on my personal laptop. If one in a billion sites doesn’t work in FF (which, again, has not happened to me in years, except for intranet sites meant to work only with IE6...), just have a dedicated launcher for it, or even better tell their support you’re dropping them because of that. And if that broken site is a Google property: it’s well-known that they do it on purpose, you’re literally giving in to the school bully shaking you down for lunch money. Grow a spine.