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The Chrome alternatives for both of these do not compare well. Cvim, vimium, etc lack a lot of depth like .vimperatorrc (a config I can track in Git!).
The TreeStyleTabs alternatives in Chrome require a separate sidecar window in Chrome! This mikes window management a nightmare. Sigh.
> only about 38% of Firefox users have an extension What? You can't describe 38% of your user base with the word "only". This should read "a whole 38% of Firefox users ..." I use Firefox because I trust it better than chrome, but I need those extensions I am using.
Firefox's address bar is much more intelligent than Chrome. The moment i type a keyword it shows me the sites i visited from the past that has this keyword. Firefox also supports flick gesture from my Wacom tablet on my Windows machine to scroll up/down webpages.
It's not owned by an advertising company, and it's the only full-featured browser I'm aware of that has great ad blocking on Android.
I guess I'm in the 5%.
I have been responsible for a lot more installs than just my own -- lots of those people with little to no extensions. But in the last year or so I've switched to giving people Chrome (it just makes more sense these days) and when I'm no longer using Firefox I will definitely have no reason to advocate for it.
But I understand, I'm on the losing side. The way that I've used the web for the last decade is going to be obsolete and I will have to suffer with whatever I can scrounge together to continue to work effectively. Whatever browser I can make that happen with will be the one that I use. If a lot more people had learned how awesome some of these add-on provided features are, they would have continued to be supported.
- I can disable EME and choose not to install Flash, and that applies to most other features that I don't want to use.
- I started using it around Firebird because of its nature as a lightweight browser that provided extensions to let me pick and choose my functionality. I think of Firefox as a piece of software that says "yes" to the way that I want to do things more than it says "no".
No processes. No hangouts. No index service started without asking. Chrome on Windows is a pig. Back when I was using it then nonstop then 25% of CPU usage was pegged to Chrome. I gave up trying to manage Chrome and switched to Firefox. Recently Firefox said they were moving away from threads to processes. I think that's a mistake. Killing Chrome was a pain at times because when it does hang all the child processes h…
To me, dropping their plugin architecture to achieve compatibility with Chrome is a bit absurd. Vimperator, GreaseMonkey and many others make Firefox unique.
[1] I know there's Conkeror, but the project seems to have stalled.