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Firefox lost it due to bad memory and plugin management (what I remember reading), and Chrome came in the right time when people were looking for something fast
by munimkazia 13y ago
Firefox lost it due to bad memory and plugin management (what I remember reading), and Chrome came in the right time when people were looking for something faster and snappier. After that, Chrome's developer tools outstripped firebug too. And they were faster in implementing a lot of HTML5 features.
But I think firefox is making a big comeback now. They have made their browser much faster and there is a lot of exciting work happening on their developer tools. I'm slowly getting frustrated with Chrome on my android, and firefox seems far better on it. I was stuck to Chrome due to the sync, but I am considering moving to firefox for desktop and mobile.
I'd also like to say that Chrome is in no way a standard and shouldn't be considered as one by any developer worth his salt. If you make a website that doesn't work as well in firefox, you have lost my respect. (unless you are doing a Chrome experiment or something).