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Our team has basically abandoned Firefox in favor of Chrome. Our team consists of front-end, HTML/JS/CSS types as well as server-side devs. I'm surprised, but e

Our team has basically abandoned Firefox in favor of Chrome. Our team consists of front-end, HTML/JS/CSS types as well as server-side devs. I'm surprised, but every member of the team independently has punted on Firefox. For some, it was the extensions. For others, it was the RAM consumption. With the new release schedule, it seems every time I would open FF with a new version to pull, some extension no longer works. It's purely anecdotal, but it was enough to annoy the bejeezus out of us that we simply switched over to Chrome.

jeremyswank 15y ago
if you use [add-on compatibility reporter](https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/add-on-compatibility-reporter/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/add-on-compat...) then you can tell firefox to use 'incompatible' extensions anyway. most of the time they work just fine.
- e1ven 15y ago
  It the newest Aurora build of Firefox, it's even easier. In about:config, toggle extensions.strictCompatibility to False.
- jroseattle 15y ago
  Good to know, thank you. Of course, there's the potential incompatibility of the incompatibility reporter, but I digress.
ootachi 15y ago
Marking add-ons compatible by default is planned and implemented for FF10 (off by default, but it'll be turned on by default assuming all goes well).
re_todd 15y ago
Firefox was becoming slow for me and a real pain to use, until I lowered the browser.history_expire_sites in "about:config" from 40k down to 10k. I'll probably lower it even more. http://kb.mozillazine.org/Browser.history_expire_sites http://kb.mozillazine.org/Browser.history_expire_sites
- blasdel 15y ago
  On the other hand Chrome stores your entire history going back a year with full-text indexes and doesn't give a shit. For my primary profile that's 2.5 GB on disk (500 MB compressed)
  - krzyk 15y ago
    Yeah, but when you open > 50 tabs, Chrome is slow like a turtle and uses tons of memory. In Firefox I can have 100 tabs open without any hassle.
bradgessler 15y ago
I abandoned Firefox for Chrome simply because it drove me nuts with software updates. It seems like every time I'd open up Firefox, there was an add-on update process and sometimes Firefox updates to install. Chrome just stays out of the way and provides updates with all the crazy pop-ups. The "default" today should be to install updates silently; not pester users with messages about why they should upgrade (I'm also looking at you Apple).
- jlongster 15y ago
  Silent updates are the next important feature coming to Firefox, see the roadmap: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Features/Desktop https://wiki.mozilla.org/Features/Desktop

jeremyswank 15y ago

if you use [add-on compatibility reporter](https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/add-on-compatibility-reporter/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/add-on-compat...) then you can tell firefox to use 'incompatible' extensions anyway. most of the time they work just fine.

e1ven 15y ago
It the newest Aurora build of Firefox, it's even easier. In about:config, toggle extensions.strictCompatibility to False.
jroseattle 15y ago
Good to know, thank you. Of course, there's the potential incompatibility of the incompatibility reporter, but I digress.

ootachi 15y ago

Marking add-ons compatible by default is planned and implemented for FF10 (off by default, but it'll be turned on by default assuming all goes well).

re_todd 15y ago

Firefox was becoming slow for me and a real pain to use, until I lowered the browser.history_expire_sites in "about:config" from 40k down to 10k. I'll probably lower it even more. http://kb.mozillazine.org/Browser.history_expire_sites http://kb.mozillazine.org/Browser.history_expire_sites

blasdel 15y ago
On the other hand Chrome stores your entire history going back a year with full-text indexes and doesn't give a shit. For my primary profile that's 2.5 GB on disk (500 MB compressed)
- krzyk 15y ago
  Yeah, but when you open > 50 tabs, Chrome is slow like a turtle and uses tons of memory. In Firefox I can have 100 tabs open without any hassle.

bradgessler 15y ago

I abandoned Firefox for Chrome simply because it drove me nuts with software updates. It seems like every time I'd open up Firefox, there was an add-on update process and sometimes Firefox updates to install. Chrome just stays out of the way and provides updates with all the crazy pop-ups. The "default" today should be to install updates silently; not pester users with messages about why they should upgrade (I'm also looking at you Apple).

jlongster 15y ago
Silent updates are the next important feature coming to Firefox, see the roadmap: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Features/Desktop https://wiki.mozilla.org/Features/Desktop