Also, Chrome's resource usage is out of control, at least on my Linux laptop.
Ask HN: Why continue to use Firefox?
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Re: Ask HN: Why continue to use Firefox?
#321. Firefox 58 has considerable speed improvements 2. Firefox has much better support for tab customization like tree style tabs (not yet supported in 58, I think), multiple tabs, where you can close, move, reload multiple tabs together, copy url of selected tabs in custom format etc. 3. Reliable session recovery. With chrome , if you have more than one window each with multiple tabs, recovery of all windows is not gu…
Plus, FF displays current downloads in another window which is annoying.
Re: Ask HN: Why continue to use Firefox?
#33I have a few different clients that I have seperate logins for and I like to keep all that completely separate while still only using a single browser.
Re: Ask HN: Why continue to use Firefox?
#34Taking a stand against companies fighting to undermine privacy is a good reason to choose a product like Firefox. I don't think it's as much about being a for-profit [3] as it is about the intentions of the company, its influence, and the way it makes money.
Re: Ask HN: Why continue to use Firefox?
#351. Firefox 58 has considerable speed improvements 2. Firefox has much better support for tab customization like tree style tabs (not yet supported in 58, I think), multiple tabs, where you can close, move, reload multiple tabs together, copy url of selected tabs in custom format etc. 3. Reliable session recovery. With chrome , if you have more than one window each with multiple tabs, recovery of all windows is not gu…
Re: Ask HN: Why continue to use Firefox?
#36Until Firefox has a method to easily switch between profiles, I'll stick with Chrome. I have a few different clients that I have seperate logins for and I like to keep all that completely separate while still only using a single browser.
Re: Ask HN: Why continue to use Firefox?
#37Until Firefox has a method to easily switch between profiles, I'll stick with Chrome. I have a few different clients that I have seperate logins for and I like to keep all that completely separate while still only using a single browser.
https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/Contextual_Identity_Projec... https://testpilot.firefox.com/experiments/containers/
Re: Ask HN: Why continue to use Firefox?
#38Because I need FIFO ordering for tab switching with Ctrl+Tab, and every time I check, Chrome doesn't support it and extensions can't offer it (because they cannot override the shortcut). Firefox supports it via extensions, although the author has noted it will stop working in 57.
Re: Ask HN: Why continue to use Firefox?
#391. Firefox 58 has considerable speed improvements 2. Firefox has much better support for tab customization like tree style tabs (not yet supported in 58, I think), multiple tabs, where you can close, move, reload multiple tabs together, copy url of selected tabs in custom format etc. 3. Reliable session recovery. With chrome , if you have more than one window each with multiple tabs, recovery of all windows is not gu…
Sorry, why 58? Nightly is on 57 only. What is landing in 58?
Re: Ask HN: Why continue to use Firefox?
#40Earlier quoted context omitted.
https://www.mozilla.org/it/firefox/all/ only reports firefox 55 as available for download.
They mean 57 in nightlies: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/channel/desktop/#night...