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> The thing that I don't understand is why the world has switched over to Chrome leaving Firefox behind Reasons why I, a former Firefox promoter switched to Ch
by sangnoir 4y ago
> The thing that I don't understand is why the world has switched over to Chrome leaving Firefox behind
Reasons why I, a former Firefox promoter switched to Chrome:
1. Speed. Chrome was blazing fast compared to other browser
2. Stability: Chrome could have a tab crash without bringing down your entire browser.
3. Really good developer tools that were superior to Firebug. As a matter of fact, Chrome Dev tools were my gateway drug as I'd use Chrome for work and Firefox for personal browsing, and the gradually shifted entirely to Chrome.
- squarefoot 4y agoSituation has changed dramatically wrt points 1 and 2 since years, however. As for 3, I'm no web developer so can't comment on this.
- toastal 4y agoThe dev tools are really good in Firefox and its browser forks.
- danielheath 4y agoOne or two devtool features are better in firefox, but when I gave it a good try a year or so back I had the devtools get stuck / crash / fail to find an element that's onscreen moderately often - enough that I'm not keen to use it for work by default.
- ghusbands 4y agoChrome is still significantly faster for me on multiple computers. Even now, Firefox can't smoothly scroll though this very page [1] without obvious jitter; no browser should have trouble with that. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33442281 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33442281