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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
#12I want to switch to Chrome but I can't live without a Firefox addon - tree style tab.
Wow, I have the EXACT same issue. Tree Style Tab is so incredibly valuable, I simply can't use a browser without it for any serious work.
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#13Everyone 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.
Also, you can easily add custom keyword searches under Preferences. For example:
Name: Youtube Keyword: y URL: http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=%s
Then just type "y civilization v" and shazam, you're on Youtube, looking at a list of trailers and previews for Civilization V.
Firefox has the same feature; I believe it's called "Keyword Search" and can be accessed through Bookmark Manager. I always found Firefox's separate search box redundant for this reason.
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#14Everyone 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.
ctrl+L gets you to the address bar. "?" + your query forces a default search (so you can do ?http://www.cnn.com and it will actually search for cnn.com, not take you to the site). If you add keywords, then you just ctrl+l then type, say "php in_array" and your query gets submitted directly to php.net's search engine (if you've pre-programmed it). This is actually very much like Firefox's implementation.
Re: Is Firefox Headed Towards A Massive Decline? Its Co-Founder Thinks So
#15Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
ctrl+L gets you to the address bar. "?" + your query forces a default search (so you can do ? http://www.cnn.com and it will actually search for cnn.com, not take you to the site). If you add keywords, then you just ctrl+l then type, say "php in_array" and your query gets submitted directly to php.net's search engine (if you've pre-programmed it). This is actually very much like Firefox's implementation.
> ctrl+L gets you to the address bar. "?" + your query forces a default search
And for the keystroke-obsessed, Ctrl+K clears the location bar and puts in the question mark for you. :)
Re: Is Firefox Headed Towards A Massive Decline? Its Co-Founder Thinks So
#16Everyone 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.
You don't need a search bar in chrome, just type the address of the site you want to search with and hit TAB. Example:
youtu+TAB and then enter your keyword. Works with every site that support opensearch. en.wiki+TAB will search wikipedia etc.
Re: Is Firefox Headed Towards A Massive Decline? Its Co-Founder Thinks So
#17Everyone 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?
Things I can't live without:
Link Widgets: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2933/
Basically, it studies the source for links like "next" and "previous," and lets you page forward and backward with alt+pageup/down. Works great on xkcd, New York Times, and many others.
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Noscript/Flashblock: 'nuff said.
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Colorzilla: http://www.colorzilla.com/firefox/
Color picker. Combined with Firebug, great for web dev.
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Leet key: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/770/
Okay, this one I could live without, but the ability to rot13/hex/morse/octal/binary encode text at will is nice.
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Facepad: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/8442/
I don't really use this one that often, but it's a good example of Firefox's superiority.
Re: Is Firefox Headed Towards A Massive Decline? Its Co-Founder Thinks So
#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
But it also makes developing extensions more accessible to more developers.
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#19+1 Chrome. But Firefox will always be entrenched.
Re: Is Firefox Headed Towards A Massive Decline? Its Co-Founder Thinks So
#20>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.
Certainly it was easy for firefox to grow fast as netscape had died and ie, well, it's ie. They were right time right place.
For chrome to come along and take a large fraction of firefox users is an entirely different situation. If your claim is that it's easy to grow fast from zero as a proportion of the global internet users then the data from other browsers adoption rates does not support that conclusion.