41–50 of 142 posts
You can reasonably feel like Chrome is better than Firefox but I don't think it's so much better that it is worth the trade-off.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Firefox on Linux performs really well for me, even with 50-100 tabs open. However I have your same problem with not knowing how to preserve the network history between refreshes, that would be useful.
Do you use Firefox from Mozilla, or do you use one of the forks?
Why did I move from Netscape to IE? Speed. Why did I move from IE to Firefox? Speed. Why did I move from Firefox to Chrome? Speed. Why did I move from Chrome to Firefox? Negative feelings about Google. So for myself the only things that work, hand on heart, are Speed or Repulsion. You can't really sell repulsion. Therefore, I think their only hope is Speed. Admittedly I may be a crap example.
I believe that maybe Firefox has a card to play with decentralization. Think something like IPFS or MediaGoblin easy-to-use integration.
A strong stance would include ad and tracking blocking, on...by default.
This is more like "Optionally Browse Against the Machine After Figuring out How".
Ran a comparison just for fun. Ubuntu 16.04, on netflix chrome jumps between ~15%-40% CPU. Firefox was a solid 40%-55%. And i noticed UI lags when loading netflix pages, took me 3 minutes to go back to chrome.
I think teaching people that Google is dangerous and everyone using Chrome makes it worse is important, and probably a good strategy for Firefox. You can reasonably feel like Chrome is better than Firefox but I don't think it's so much better that it is worth the trade-off.
But the reason I came to Firefox was because I didn't want Chrome to be a clear monopoly and see a time when it was pretty much too late for any competition.
I trusted them until they de facto fired a prominent employee for his political opinions - opinions shared by a large portion of the population. If they can do that to an employee, what can't they do to you , an anonymous user? That said, I stick with Firefox for private use. But the trust is gone.
I think teaching people that Google is dangerous and everyone using Chrome makes it worse is important, and probably a good strategy for Firefox. You can reasonably feel like Chrome is better than Firefox but I don't think it's so much better that it is worth the trade-off.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Do you use Firefox from Mozilla, or do you use one of the forks?
FF with lots of tabs on OS X feels much more sluggish than FF with lots of tabs on Linux, on the very same hardware (MBP 2015). Different approaches to the UI toolkits might be showing.