Chrome are on top at the moment, like Internet Explorer was, Mozilla is still a powerful force, used by many developers. I am using FireFox ESR at the moment and its great
Chrome Won
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Re: Chrome Won
#272Earlier quoted context omitted.
The problem is we're moving extremely fast to a chrome only world. If it wasn't for corporate sites and the success of the iPhone chrome would probably be dominating the way IE used to. I definitely run into sites that only work on chrome and not in any other browser. In my opinion chrome isn't doing a good job either. It's a massive energy hog and waste more CPU than it needs to. Unlike IE and FireFox and Safari it…
>Unlike IE and FireFox and Safari it comes from a company that is notorious for wanting to know everything about you. That's not true. Microsoft has now gotten into the spying business, and is infamous for the Windows 10 telemetry. They're basically copying Google. Firefox and Safari are the only ones that come from companies that aren't notorious for wanting to know everything about you. And Firefox doesn't try to g…
Firefox sends the DOM hashes to Google just like Chrome.
Re: Chrome Won
#273Earlier quoted context omitted.
The Mobile OS war can still be continued. Mozilla should join forces with Lineage OS instead of wasting time with their own. Do the embrace, extend, extinguish strategy with Android. Secure messaging is also still a hot topic. Join forces with Signal or Wire or Matrix or XMPP. For example, Wire intends to open source their server code and enable federation [0]. Voice control requires some weight for an Open Source so…
I don't know a single Android user that even knows what Lineage OS is all about.
A vast majority of Android users know nothing about custom ROMs.
However I would say that among those who do know, Lineage OS has a fairly good reputation for quality. You wouldn't be targeting mass adoption with this, you'd be targeting the influencers.
Re: Chrome Won
#274So Mozilla lost Firefox OS. And their browser share is smaller then Chrome, and then it was, but still top tier and winning from M$. I'm much less pessimistic. Besides a cross platform and extensible browser we see also the following coming out of Mozilla: * Rust, a modern low-level programming language with cutting edge "safety" build in at zero runt time cost, luring many system programmers. * Servo, tomorrow brows…
Let's not forget that Firefox also has Tree Style Tabs, which for power users is the good reason not to use Chrome and use Firefox instead.
Re: Chrome Won
#275Earlier quoted context omitted.
Chrome is improving on the resource usage front. It's far from perfect but it's getting better. As for privacy you could use the open source chromium, there's a fork somewhere which has all the Google removed.
On windows firefox does everything in one thread while chrome opens many. Depending on the usage both can be fast or slow. Firefox handles multiple tabs better. Chrome handles multiple tabs of videos better
Chrome handles few tabs better, Firefox handles hundreds of tabs better.
Re: Chrome Won
#276I can credit this post and resultant discussion from pushing me to try FF again, and I have to say I'm happy with what I'm seeing. Chrome has been disappointing for a while now from both a privacy and performance standpoint - I simply kept using it out of habit.
Re: Chrome Won
#277Ideological leanings aside as an end user I went back and forth between Chrome and Firefox several times. In fact I would visit https://arewee10syet.com every couple of months and sigh for years wanting to switch back. On Firefox I used to have hundreds of tabs open and no visible ui chrome most of the time, just vimperator/pentadactyl and usually hidden treestyle tabs. Along with a rotating collection of adblockers…
> Readability and integrated 'read it offline later' mode is a cherry on top
Pocket was a good move, but it is still not fully integrated to Firefox like the 'read it offline later' mode of Safari. I really wish it was.
Re: Chrome Won
#278The issue I have with Mozilla is that they seem too technical focused. They do stuff like Rust which must be an incredible investment of time. If you're going to make a new browser engine from scratch, why not use a language that already exist? I understand there's reasons but stuff like that is just wtf imho. Also, they've done stuff like Firefox Hello, that login thing etc. Many were good ideas but they should real…
> The issue I have with Mozilla is that they seem too technical focused.
All of your complaints are technical.
> They do stuff like Rust which must be an incredible investment of time.
Rust is a very small team.
> If you're going to make a new browser engine from scratch, why not use a language that already exist?
Because no language other than Rust offers good support for safe concurrency and memory safety without performance compromises.
> I understand there's reasons but stuff like that is just wtf imho.
> Many were good ideas but they should really focus on their core product and making it solid as a fucking rock.
The desire to do that is the reason for Rust.
Re: Chrome Won
#279Be realistic, the browser war has ended a long time ago. Chrome, Firefox, Opera, Safari, (Edge?)... are all good browsers now. It's wonderful that we have choice.
I personally wouldn't switch to chrome just because it doesn't have tabs on the side (tree style tabs on firefox). This headline doesn't make much sense for many of us.
Re: Chrome Won
#280Be realistic, the browser war has ended a long time ago. Chrome, Firefox, Opera, Safari, (Edge?)... are all good browsers now. It's wonderful that we have choice. I personally wouldn't switch to chrome just because it doesn't have tabs on the side (tree style tabs on firefox). This headline doesn't make much sense for many of us.
Except Safari, which sucks, and Opera, which is irrelevant, and IE, which still matters, and Edge, which is behind.
Firefox and Chrome are both good.