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Firefox is already as good or better than Chrome. In the long HN thread from a few days ago the consensus was that Mozilla should focus on Firefox and actively

Firefox is already as good or better than Chrome. In the long HN thread from a few days ago the consensus was that Mozilla should focus on Firefox and actively engage in promoting Firefox to increase market share. Here Mozilla is clearly doing that and very well IMO, and now its "stop wasting money blah blah blah." It just so easy to tear people down, that listening to it is usually a waste of time.

dleslie 5y ago
> Firefox is already as good or better than Chrome. I've been a Firefox user since its inception, but I don't think it's better than Chrome and it hasn't been for a very long time. Chrome is faster on all the devices I've tried it on, and by default it serves less telemetry to external sources than default Firefox does. It also supports uBlock, Decentraleyes, et cetera and de-Googled forks, like Chromium, are easily available.
- curt15 5y ago
  uBlock origin is incompatible with the upcoming Manifestv3.
  - dleslie 5y ago
    That's a bummer; will that effect all chrome-based browsers?
    - deadbunny 5y ago
      Most likely. I can't see any of the open source projects having the resources to maintain backwards compatibility for anything Google doesn't want.
- 8note 5y ago
  I use Firefox because the unlock support on Chrome is patchy. I still use Chrome for desktop mostly, but never on other platforms
- MAGZine 5y ago
  I disagree; I used Chrome for a decade but recently switched back to Firefox because I found it increasingly bloated, and the Chrome team keeps making user-hostile decisions that works to circumvent privacy on the web. Saying "Chrome supports the open source package its built on" seems like a cop-out as well, because it's not the same browser. That's like saying MacOS is awesome because it was built on BSD, and BSD is easily available. They bare little resemblance to each other.
- yoasif_ 5y ago
  > by default it serves less telemetry to external sources than default Firefox does What do you mean by this?

dleslie 5y ago

> Firefox is already as good or better than Chrome. I've been a Firefox user since its inception, but I don't think it's better than Chrome and it hasn't been for a very long time. Chrome is faster on all the devices I've tried it on, and by default it serves less telemetry to external sources than default Firefox does. It also supports uBlock, Decentraleyes, et cetera and de-Googled forks, like Chromium, are easily available.

curt15 5y ago
uBlock origin is incompatible with the upcoming Manifestv3.
- dleslie 5y ago
  That's a bummer; will that effect all chrome-based browsers?
  - deadbunny 5y ago
    Most likely. I can't see any of the open source projects having the resources to maintain backwards compatibility for anything Google doesn't want.
8note 5y ago
I use Firefox because the unlock support on Chrome is patchy. I still use Chrome for desktop mostly, but never on other platforms
MAGZine 5y ago
I disagree; I used Chrome for a decade but recently switched back to Firefox because I found it increasingly bloated, and the Chrome team keeps making user-hostile decisions that works to circumvent privacy on the web. Saying "Chrome supports the open source package its built on" seems like a cop-out as well, because it's not the same browser. That's like saying MacOS is awesome because it was built on BSD, and BSD is easily available. They bare little resemblance to each other.
yoasif_ 5y ago
> by default it serves less telemetry to external sources than default Firefox does What do you mean by this?