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No, Firefox didn’t die because a few of us devs stopped using it and standardized around chromium. They died because chrome has outperformed them on speed and e
by jjcon 4y ago
No, Firefox didn’t die because a few of us devs stopped using it and standardized around chromium. They died because chrome has outperformed them on speed and efficiency for a decade+ (I still can’t run FF on my Mac without my fans whirring to life). Not to mention things completely outside their control like chromes marketing budget.
I’m not trying to place tons of judgement on Mozilla though - just saying we all need to face the reality rather than living in denialism.
- k__ 4y agoYes. While I was the first to jump ship, when Chrome got released, I really tried to like Firefox in the last ten years, but in the end Mozilla failed on so many fronts, that they lost me to Brave.
- eropple 4y ago> I still can’t run FF on my Mac without my fans whirring to life I haven't seen this behavior on a Mac since Firefox Quantum was released, FWIW. It's what got me to switch back to Firefox in the first place. (Sidebery and a few other nice extensions have helped keep me there.)
- jjcon 4y agoI didn’t use Firefox pre-quantum so I’ve only seen this behavior post quantum. I last gave Firefox a try about a year ago and while the fans weren’t as bad the battery life/power consumption just wasn’t comparable to safari or chrome based browsers
- eropple 4y agoIt isn't comparable to Safari for sure, but with similar tabs open, for me, Firefox and Chrome have similar (if not better for Firefox) heat/fan behavior. Leaving a Gmail tab open is cursed in both, though. I would use Safari on a Mac if there was a decent way to sync browser history, etc. to Firefox on Windows, but--welp.