I use it as a primary browser, but there are a few web apps on which it's so uselessly slow or chews so much CPU (consistently 90-100%) that the only viable option is to run them on another browser. Shame.
Ask HN: What's stopping you from using Firefox as your primary browser?
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#22> For me it's a simple feature in Chrome "tab to search" which frustratingly has never been ported into Firefox
Firefox has a similar feature called 'Quick Searches' (look in Firefox's Bookmarks menu). For example, I have one for Flickr - keyword 'fl', url 'https://www.flickr.com/search/?q=%s&w=all'.
So if I type 'fl bridges' in the address bar I go to https://www.flickr.com/search/?q=bridges&w=all
Re: Ask HN: What's stopping you from using Firefox as your primary browser?
#23I use a Chromebook, can't run Firefox easily.
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#241. I switched to Chrome after I got fed up with firefox's tabs not being sandboxed. I worked at a company that ran an app using silver light. It freezing would often lock up my browser (or at least that's what I thought was happening at the time). I switched to chrome and liked the overall "tighter" experience.
2. Now its security issues. I'm watching closely however to see how firefox evolves over the next year.
Re: Ask HN: What's stopping you from using Firefox as your primary browser?
#251) speed.
2) politics. I remembered them announcing that they'd block intrusive ads by default, then quietly backtracked after advertiser backlash.
I understand their balancing act but this demonstrated to me that they'll continue to be beholden to those with power and money in the internet world.
Also, there's clearly competing factions inside Mozilla the company and we have no transparency into their inner workings.
Re: Ask HN: What's stopping you from using Firefox as your primary browser?
#26I never stopped using Firefox since I started using it the first time (around 2004). It's quite fast and pleasant with NoScript.
Chrome is my primary browser "at work", and I use it at home for video (Youtube, Twitch, etc.), and for any guests I have over.
Re: Ask HN: What's stopping you from using Firefox as your primary browser?
#27Speed. It takes twice as long as Chrome to start, and it's noticeably slower when using it to browse web pages.
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#28I don't like the design of the user interface - at all. If Firefox looked and worked exactly like Chrome, I'd use it in a heartbeat. There's way too much clutter everywhere. At some point I'd like to redo the entire design for them.
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#29While watching a Youtube video on OSX, when I hit the fullscreen button in Firefox the video takes about ten seconds to go fullscreen. It only takes three seconds in Chrome. (And <1s in Safari, but Safari is missing some of the extensions I use.)
Re: Ask HN: What's stopping you from using Firefox as your primary browser?
#30> For me it's a simple feature in Chrome "tab to search" which frustratingly has never been ported into Firefox Firefox has a similar feature called 'Quick Searches' (look in Firefox's Bookmarks menu). For example, I have one for Flickr - keyword 'fl', url ' https://www.flickr.com/search/?q=%s&w=all' . So if I type 'fl bridges' in the address bar I go to https://www.flickr.com/search/?q=bridges&w=all
But it still doesn't work as great as in Chrome. Ok. Sometimes even in Chrome it doesn't work perfect, but the ease of use to just search for a youtube video ist great.
Also the mobile browser worked better 2 years ago. Now i haven't tested it lately.