Taking a stand against companies fighting to undermine privacy is a good reason to choose a product like Firefox. I don't think it's as much about being a for-profit [3] as it is about the intentions of the company, its influence, and the way it makes money.
Ask HN: Why continue to use Firefox?
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Re: Ask HN: Why continue to use Firefox?
#12Firefox allows non tabbed browsing, leaving window management to the window manager of the desktop environment.
This feature alone is enough for me.
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Re: Ask HN: Why continue to use Firefox?
#131. Firefox 58 has considerable speed improvements 2. Firefox has much better support for tab customization like tree style tabs (not yet supported in 58, I think), multiple tabs, where you can close, move, reload multiple tabs together, copy url of selected tabs in custom format etc. 3. Reliable session recovery. With chrome , if you have more than one window each with multiple tabs, recovery of all windows is not gu…
https://www.mozilla.org/it/firefox/all/ only reports firefox 55 as available for download.
Re: Ask HN: Why continue to use Firefox?
#14Because it's fast. Nightly 57 is very very fast.
Re: Ask HN: Why continue to use Firefox?
#151. Firefox 58 has considerable speed improvements 2. Firefox has much better support for tab customization like tree style tabs (not yet supported in 58, I think), multiple tabs, where you can close, move, reload multiple tabs together, copy url of selected tabs in custom format etc. 3. Reliable session recovery. With chrome , if you have more than one window each with multiple tabs, recovery of all windows is not gu…
Mine are a little simpler: It's "good enough," and seems good for the open web and open source.
Re: Ask HN: Why continue to use Firefox?
#161. Firefox 58 has considerable speed improvements 2. Firefox has much better support for tab customization like tree style tabs (not yet supported in 58, I think), multiple tabs, where you can close, move, reload multiple tabs together, copy url of selected tabs in custom format etc. 3. Reliable session recovery. With chrome , if you have more than one window each with multiple tabs, recovery of all windows is not gu…
https://www.mozilla.org/it/firefox/all/ only reports firefox 55 as available for download.
They mean 57 in nightlies: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/channel/desktop/#night...
Re: Ask HN: Why continue to use Firefox?
#17Container tabs[0] (currently an experiment) will hopefully stick around. That alone is reason enough to use it from my point of view. Paired with Cookie AutoDelete it is the most control I've ever had over my privacy in a browser and it feels good. Fx's new CSS pipeline and the other stuff they're porting from Servo is amazingly cool. Not just tech wise that they can pull this off but the benefits it brings means Fx…
Container tabs are live in the latest nightlies (without addons), so signs are good that it will make it to stable.
Re: Ask HN: Why continue to use Firefox?
#181. Firefox 58 has considerable speed improvements 2. Firefox has much better support for tab customization like tree style tabs (not yet supported in 58, I think), multiple tabs, where you can close, move, reload multiple tabs together, copy url of selected tabs in custom format etc. 3. Reliable session recovery. With chrome , if you have more than one window each with multiple tabs, recovery of all windows is not gu…
The search bar is soon to be hidden by default -- you'll have the option to turn it on. [1]
[1] - https://news.slashdot.org/story/17/09/08/2330232/firefox-57-...
Re: Ask HN: Why continue to use Firefox?
#19I'd never consider using a free browser from an ad network, and don't have windows or a mac. That pretty much leaves Firefox as my daily driver.
Not to mention I've been using it since Netscape 0.9 or whatever it was first released as. Started on Mosaic ;-).
Have appreciated the kick in the pants from chrome and keep chromium around for testing. Shame about the dumbing down of the UI but extensions have mostly saved me so far. I prefer traditional widgets, a single OS theme, and hate skinz.
Re: Ask HN: Why continue to use Firefox?
#20A lot of the things being said here are true. I gave FF a chance again (after nearly a decade) last month. I switched back to chrome for two reasons:
1. After a couple of days of use, page interaction began to 'stutter'. Every 2-3 seconds the page would lock up. 2. They still don't sand box tabs, so a crash brings down everything. I lost work because FF locked up on one tab while I was working in another. Everything came to a screeching halt.
That was enough for me to forget FF all over again. #1 consistently happened on two different machines, but I couldn't find a fix (just similar issues related to graphics HW acceleration from two years ago.) I have no idea how isolated these incidents are, but if I can't rely on FF to work > 99% of the time I can't use it.