Probably my biggest reason to switch back to chrome from firefox was firefox not supporting the content only zoom made from trackpad on Macos. It is so handy that you can just zoom webpages like they are pictures without site reflow etc. And interestingly enıugh firefox did not support it when i switched.
Ask HN: For those who use Chrome, why do you?
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Re: Ask HN: For those who use Chrome, why do you?
#42I've used every popular browser (chrome/edge/old edge/firefox/opera/brave/chromium/vivaldi) on Windows. Chrome works most smooth of the time without any funny issues. Supposedly people said Edge is Chromium based, and is better, less memory usage, etc. I tried it, it just feels more clunky, takes longer to open, pages take longer to load. I also dislike the interface, chrome's interface seems more natural to me. And…
You can install any chrome extension from the chrome store in Edge, you just click the usual 'add to chrome' button and Edge will install it.
Re: Ask HN: For those who use Chrome, why do you?
#43Chrome is like Starbucks. It may not be the best coffee in the town, but it has acceptable quality and you can find one everywhere you go, with (more or less) the same quality.
I don't want to think about browsers - I use a browser to visit websites. Chrome works for virtually all websites I visit, and doesn't cause too many issues. Maybe Firefox does as well, but I'm too lazy to try out, unless it has something seriously better to offer.
Re: Ask HN: For those who use Chrome, why do you?
#44Earlier quoted context omitted.
Firefox + Multi-Account Containers [1] + Container Proxy [2] + Cookie Auto-Delete [3] have completely changed the way I use the web. I can now have multiple Discord accounts open, multiple e-mail accounts, etc. Cookie Auto-Delete removes all persistent traces of my browsing (Cache, IndexedDB, LocalStorage, Plugin Data, Service Workers, Cookies) unless I have whitelisted a site. And you can whitelist sites on a per-co…
I need to try this. Are those features available on Android too?
I don't have Android, but it can't hurt to check: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/android/addon/multi-account...
Re: Ask HN: For those who use Chrome, why do you?
#45Why did I start? Performance and dev tools. But that was a long time ago. Being technically competent doesn't mean you keep up to date on how all the major options for all major categories of software compare on all major features. Maybe Firefox is better on both counts now.
Why don't I switch? I haven't seen anything about Chrome re. privacy that has really bothered me personally, but I'm also the guy who clicks accept on cookie prompts. More immediately, I'm kept on Chrome by the Google ecosystem and not wanting to configure+migrate with something new.
Re: Ask HN: For those who use Chrome, why do you?
#46I don't but I can share a reason someone I know uses it instead of Firefox: profile switcher. In Chrome you have pretty little button you click on that lists all your profiles in a nice looking way; with two actions you're done. In Firefox, you have to type about:profiles, you get a horrendously looking list with all sorts of useless information, it's just a pain to access and look at. Implement the same UX Chrome ha…
Not sure what your use case is, but Firefox’s containers might solve your problem with the older profile system: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multi-account...
Re: Ask HN: For those who use Chrome, why do you?
#47I use Firefox 99.9% of the time, but I will note that Chrome performs better on lower end hardware.
Re: Ask HN: For those who use Chrome, why do you?
#48Live Captions, mostly, though lately I've been using other browsers and just dragging URLs into Chrome if I need captioning for them.
I'm really hoping Apple introduces a comparable feature soon for iOS and macOS.
Re: Ask HN: For those who use Chrome, why do you?
#49I use Chrome because of its built in password manager. Every time I set up a day to move some of those passwords somewhere else I feel I have something more "important" to do.
I used to use Firefox a lot, but at one point it has so many performance issues, it was unusable for me and Chrome was like a breath of fresh air.
I have Firefox installed now, and sometimes browse with it, but I get the feeling that websites look odd in that browser, as if I was not seeing the websites as if they supposed to look.
Re: Ask HN: For those who use Chrome, why do you?
#50Chrome tab bar reduces width and overflows, Firefox tab bar scrolls That’s makes chrome more power user friendly. Sadly
To me it's the opposite! I'm a tab hoarder. A tab bar like ||||||||||||||||||| is unusable, but Firefox's approach scales infinitely (and I'm on track to have inifinity+1 tabs open)