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If Firefox were a top tier browser it wouldn't have bugs that were old enough to legally purchase alcohol in the United States [1]. Or have bugs that are old en
by quanticle 4y ago
If Firefox were a top tier browser it wouldn't have bugs that were old enough to legally purchase alcohol in the United States [1]. Or have bugs that are old enough to have a drivers' license [2]. It wouldn't have decade-old bugs that break AJAX forms [3]. It would correctly support prefetching links [4].
And those are just the outstanding bugs. In terms of performance, Firefox is still slower than Chrome. It still has more UI jank, even on Linux. The new plugin API still doesn't give extensions the same level of functionality that they had with the old API, despite years of promising otherwise. Its responses to interaction media queries are inconsistent, necessitating the creation of a test page [5] to determine what its actual responses are (W3C specifications? what are those?).
No, Firefox is not a top-tier browser. It's more privacy-preserving than Chrome, which is why I use it, but I will never claim that Firefox is a better browser.
[1]: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10212 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10212
[2]: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=317081 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=317081
[3]: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=654072 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=654072
[4]: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1527334 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1527334
[5]: https://demos.obormot.net/interaction-media-query-test https://demos.obormot.net/interaction-media-query-test
EDIT:
better dump Android at this point anyway
Dump Android for what, exactly? An even more user-hostile platform, like iOS?
- BlueTemplar 4y agoBeing worse than Chrome doesn't mean it's not top tier. Agreed about the old loss of functionality. At least performance is better now. No, most people should be using a dumbphone these days, at least until we hackers get our shit together enough that alternatives Librem/Pinephone are good enough.