Is Firefox Headed Towards A Massive Decline? Its Co-Founder Thinks So
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Re: Is Firefox Headed Towards A Massive Decline? Its Co-Founder Thinks So
#2Everyone that I know are using Chrome right now, except guys like me that like to tweak their browsers (something that Chrome fails miserably) and some extensions that sadly does not fit well into Chrome architecture. The other major problem (a search bar) was partly solved by Duck Duck Go.
Re: Is Firefox Headed Towards A Massive Decline? Its Co-Founder Thinks So
#3We'll now within 10 minutes of installing 4. If it's not drastically faster than the current version, then the story is over and we're starting a dull, pointless addendum.
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#4>Certainly, Google Chrome is now growing at a much faster pace than Firefox is.
I get tired of seeing this repeated ad nauseam. It's easy to grow fast from zero; Firefox grew fast from zero. It's a lot harder to grow fast from double-digit penetration.
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#5We'll now within 10 minutes of installing 4. If it's not drastically faster than the current version, then the story is over and we're starting a dull, pointless addendum.
I want to see its memory management. Chrome destroys FF in this area, in my experience. It is even worse when you're running add-ons(which I can forgive, to an extent), but even when disabling those, it is still a hog.
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#6Everyone that I know are using Chrome right now, except guys like me that like to tweak their browsers (something that Chrome fails miserably) and some extensions that sadly does not fit well into Chrome architecture. The other major problem (a search bar) was partly solved by Duck Duck Go.
I wouldn't say Chrome fails miserably at browser tweaking, but maybe I don't do enough tweaking myself. What exactly are you trying to do that Chrome won't let you do?
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#7I want to switch to Chrome but I can't live without a Firefox addon - tree style tab.
Re: Is Firefox Headed Towards A Massive Decline? Its Co-Founder Thinks So
#8Everyone that I know are using Chrome right now, except guys like me that like to tweak their browsers (something that Chrome fails miserably) and some extensions that sadly does not fit well into Chrome architecture. The other major problem (a search bar) was partly solved by Duck Duck Go.
Why do you need a search bar in Chrome? Just type what you want into the "address" bar, and it will search your default search engine.
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#9If Firefox Mobile doesn't catch on they are doomed... That's where the world is going.
Re: Is Firefox Headed Towards A Massive Decline? Its Co-Founder Thinks So
#10Everyone that I know are using Chrome right now, except guys like me that like to tweak their browsers (something that Chrome fails miserably) and some extensions that sadly does not fit well into Chrome architecture. The other major problem (a search bar) was partly solved by Duck Duck Go.
I wouldn't say Chrome fails miserably at browser tweaking, but maybe I don't do enough tweaking myself. What exactly are you trying to do that Chrome won't let you do?
Google Chrome's extensions are purely based on HTML, CSS and some custom Javascript. That's incredibly limiting, especially when you're talking about UI manipulation. When you're creating Firefox extensions, you're writing the same native language (XUL) that the Firefox developers use to add features to Firefox itself.
Chrome's extensions only have similar capabilities as Mozilla JetPacks have.