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I feel like Firefox is getting better and better with each release. Is anyone using it as the default over Chrome.

rossng 13y ago
I switched from Chrome to Firefox Nightly (i.e. Firefox with Australis) a couple of months ago. I really like it. There's no noticeable performance hit, but I'm definitely finding it more stable. My favourite recent feature addition is the ability to pin add-on shortcuts to the new Firefox menu, which I'm finding a massive improvement over using the add-on bar/ramming stuff into the same toolbar as everything else.
actionscripted 13y ago
Always had Firefox as my default, even when it was stuck on large, slow releases and was lagging a bit behind Chrome as far as features and speed. My reasons are pretty trivial, and I'll readily admit Chrome can be better to work with in certain dev cases, but I like being able to customize the UI. (I think the back/forward buttons belong to the right of the address bar where they're easier to reach with a mouse and I like having an RSS button, dang it.)
Jakob 13y ago
I just switched a month ago from Chrome to Firefox Nightly as my default browser. Some parts of the Chrome Web Inspector still outmatch Firefox (and Safari), esp. the profiling/heap view parts. Right now I switch back to Chrome when I need this functionality. Firefox’ web inspector feels a bit faster to me overall, though. With Firefox’ new design in the nightly and the recent speed upgrades I don’t see a technical reason to prefer one or the other in many situations and that’s a very good thing. Welcome back FF!
stevejohnson 13y ago
I switched back to Firefox for web browsing a few months ago. I had started using Chrome because Firefox used to have horrible random UI freezes on OS X which seem to be fixed now. They're both fine in usability, but I'd rather be using Mozilla's browser than Google's or Apple's. It seems like Mozilla has better incentives than Google to improve the World Wide Web as a whole rather than just its own WWW properties. I still use Chrome for JavaScript debugging. I'm more familiar with it and the tools are better. I expect to switch to Firefox for that when their profiler improves and when they start putting the full stack trace in the console. Edit after actually reading the article: it looks like they have done the stack trace thing in this very release!

I switched from Chrome to Firefox Nightly (i.e. Firefox with Australis) a couple of months ago. I really like it. There's no noticeable performance hit, but I'm definitely finding it more stable. My favourite recent feature addition is the ability to pin add-on shortcuts to the new Firefox menu, which I'm finding a massive improvement over using the add-on bar/ramming stuff into the same toolbar as everything else.

actionscripted 13y ago

Always had Firefox as my default, even when it was stuck on large, slow releases and was lagging a bit behind Chrome as far as features and speed. My reasons are pretty trivial, and I'll readily admit Chrome can be better to work with in certain dev cases, but I like being able to customize the UI. (I think the back/forward buttons belong to the right of the address bar where they're easier to reach with a mouse and I like having an RSS button, dang it.)

Jakob 13y ago

I just switched a month ago from Chrome to Firefox Nightly as my default browser. Some parts of the Chrome Web Inspector still outmatch Firefox (and Safari), esp. the profiling/heap view parts. Right now I switch back to Chrome when I need this functionality. Firefox’ web inspector feels a bit faster to me overall, though. With Firefox’ new design in the nightly and the recent speed upgrades I don’t see a technical reason to prefer one or the other in many situations and that’s a very good thing. Welcome back FF!

stevejohnson 13y ago

I switched back to Firefox for web browsing a few months ago. I had started using Chrome because Firefox used to have horrible random UI freezes on OS X which seem to be fixed now. They're both fine in usability, but I'd rather be using Mozilla's browser than Google's or Apple's. It seems like Mozilla has better incentives than Google to improve the World Wide Web as a whole rather than just its own WWW properties. I still use Chrome for JavaScript debugging. I'm more familiar with it and the tools are better. I expect to switch to Firefox for that when their profiler improves and when they start putting the full stack trace in the console. Edit after actually reading the article: it looks like they have done the stack trace thing in this very release!