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Just reinstalled Firefox due to this info

mentos 6y ago
Yea not sure if anyone on the Firefox team is reading but I have not had any reason to consider Firefox until reading this thread. If Firefox made their browser the best at ad-blocking instead of performance (which also might go hand in hand) I would consider using it again.
- kaba0 6y ago
  I’m fairly sure they have made their browser the best at ad-blocking already. But due to human nature, negatives like daring to remove some feature with minuscule usage gets heavily upvoted.
- smabie 6y ago
  Is Firefox worse than Chrome in anyway? Performance seems on par and it has a truly transformative app that iirc is unavailable in chrome: treetabs.
  - tfehring 6y ago
    >Is Firefox worse than Chrome in anyway? IME Firefox is much more of a battery hog on MacOS, Chrome's history page is much better, and some sites (Glassdoor and Google Meet come to mind) don't work properly in Firefox. And I don't really use the developer tools in either but I've generally heard that Chrome's are better. I still use Firefox as my daily driver but it's not flawless.
    - depressedpanda 6y ago
      I don't use Glassdoor, but Google Meet works fine in Firefox, at least as far as I can tell. What issues are you experiencing? The dev tools in Firefox are better for working with CSS [1], about as good for everything else. I only resort to Chromium when working with PWAs. [1]: https://youtu.be/a-V8GFtwjos https://youtu.be/a-V8GFtwjos
dlandis 6y ago
I just tried FF again today for the first time in months and updated to the latest Mac version and...I found the Quit feature didn't work. Neither Command-Q nor Quit option from the menu...And it's something like this every time I try it -- there another wtf moment with the first 5 minutes.
- kiwijamo 6y ago
  What you describe has always worked just fine on my Firefox/Mac installations.
  - dlandis 6y ago
    A quick google reveals a large number of people facing the same issue every year, going back to at least 2014.
MAGZine 6y ago
I keep chrome installed as a backup because some sites are just plain broken. But 99.9% of my browsing works fine, and so I've made FF my default browser on both personal and work machines, and have not looked back. Chrome is just too hostile to its users. Between incognito mode tracking users around the web, this extension/API hoo-hah, among other things, I'm just not excited about it as a browser anymore. You did a lot for us, Chrome, but it's time to loosen your grip on the browser market.

Yea not sure if anyone on the Firefox team is reading but I have not had any reason to consider Firefox until reading this thread. If Firefox made their browser the best at ad-blocking instead of performance (which also might go hand in hand) I would consider using it again.

kaba0 6y ago
I’m fairly sure they have made their browser the best at ad-blocking already. But due to human nature, negatives like daring to remove some feature with minuscule usage gets heavily upvoted.
smabie 6y ago
Is Firefox worse than Chrome in anyway? Performance seems on par and it has a truly transformative app that iirc is unavailable in chrome: treetabs.
- tfehring 6y ago
  >Is Firefox worse than Chrome in anyway? IME Firefox is much more of a battery hog on MacOS, Chrome's history page is much better, and some sites (Glassdoor and Google Meet come to mind) don't work properly in Firefox. And I don't really use the developer tools in either but I've generally heard that Chrome's are better. I still use Firefox as my daily driver but it's not flawless.
  - depressedpanda 6y ago
    I don't use Glassdoor, but Google Meet works fine in Firefox, at least as far as I can tell. What issues are you experiencing? The dev tools in Firefox are better for working with CSS [1], about as good for everything else. I only resort to Chromium when working with PWAs. [1]: https://youtu.be/a-V8GFtwjos https://youtu.be/a-V8GFtwjos

dlandis 6y ago

I just tried FF again today for the first time in months and updated to the latest Mac version and...I found the Quit feature didn't work. Neither Command-Q nor Quit option from the menu...And it's something like this every time I try it -- there another wtf moment with the first 5 minutes.

kiwijamo 6y ago
What you describe has always worked just fine on my Firefox/Mac installations.
- dlandis 6y ago
  A quick google reveals a large number of people facing the same issue every year, going back to at least 2014.

MAGZine 6y ago

I keep chrome installed as a backup because some sites are just plain broken. But 99.9% of my browsing works fine, and so I've made FF my default browser on both personal and work machines, and have not looked back. Chrome is just too hostile to its users. Between incognito mode tracking users around the web, this extension/API hoo-hah, among other things, I'm just not excited about it as a browser anymore. You did a lot for us, Chrome, but it's time to loosen your grip on the browser market.