It’s time to give Firefox another chance
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It’s time to give Firefox another chance
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Re: It’s time to give Firefox another chance
#2I was extremely skeptical of all the changes they were doing - I said it myself 100 times, "they're just building a Chrome clone, they're killing all the features I like in favor of speed".
But here I am, running Nightly because holy shit this thing flies. Their work has paid off and they're not even done yet. Webrender is coming, it's not quite stable enough for daily use yet (mostly just graphics glitching and integration performance issues as far as I could see), but there's a lot of work being done and it's only getting better.
Their whole "Project Quantum" eliminated the UI performance issues that used to plague the browser and they're improving security sandboxing all the time.
To those who loved the power and control like myself, they still offer a ridiculous level of configuration flexibility and extension APIs - while no longer as powerful as they were - are still better than other browsers on the market today.
Re: It’s time to give Firefox another chance
#3If you’re like me, you switched your default browser over to Chrome years ago and never looked back.
Why should I take browser advice from someone who doesn't pay attention? Especially someone who lauds the "simplicity" of Chrome...
I do love how fast Firefox 57 is though.
Re: It’s time to give Firefox another chance
#4Firefox has been my daily driver for 2-3 years now. I’d switched to Chrome several years before that but when FF fixed its lag issues I went back right away.
Mozilla overplay the “not for profit” card but with Google you can be sure they are collecting and archiving absolutely everything that passes through their servers.
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#5"It feels fast and light and I may just make it my default browser again once the stable version comes around."
"Is Firefox Quantum significantly better than Chrome? No. But they are on par again"
Well this ringing endorsement sure sold me. Anyone else? Bonus: you can mix your own Firefox Quantum using two regular Firefox Colas, some Jet and Nuclear Materials at any crafting bench.
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#6Am I the only one here who thinks that nothing can beat the Chrome debugger ? Nothing comes even close.
It's a different story if you are just browsing, like the 95% or more of the internet consumers.
Re: It’s time to give Firefox another chance
#7Switched to Firefox a while ago. I love it. My little tip is to go into add-ons > Appearance, and change over to a compact theme. It looks a lot better than the default theme imo!
Re: It’s time to give Firefox another chance
#8If you’re like me, you switched your default browser over to Chrome years ago and never looked back. Why should I take browser advice from someone who doesn't pay attention? Especially someone who lauds the "simplicity" of Chrome... I do love how fast Firefox 57 is though.
I think "never looked back" is more a turn of phrase than anything here. Obviously the author has looked back, otherwise he wouldn't be writing this article.
Re: It’s time to give Firefox another chance
#9I was very critical of Mozilla in the past about all their
"science projects" like Rust. While I appreciate Rust, I thought it was wrong for Mozilla to be wasting resources on it, instead of focusing on Firefox.
I was so harsh with them only because I strongly believe that Firefox is my only hope for a free web.
But then I tried 57, and I must admit, boy was I wrong. This thing is fast! I haven't stopped recommending it to friends and colleagues!
Good job folks!
Re: It’s time to give Firefox another chance
#10I was extremely skeptical of all the changes they were doing - I said it myself 100 times, "they're just building a Chrome clone, they're killing all the features I like in favor of speed". But here I am, running Nightly because holy shit this thing flies. Their work has paid off and they're not even done yet. Webrender is coming, it's not quite stable enough for daily use yet (mostly just graphics glitching and inte…
And FF Developer Edition still lets you install unsigned extensions.