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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

#11
Just switched to Firefox beta to test this out. Looking good so far!

The other thing that I've been waiting for is better multi-profile support. You can get a (pre-release) version of that now by opting into the Containers experiment: https://testpilot.firefox.com/experiments/containers

Re: It’s time to give Firefox another chance

#12
I tried to like the new Firefox, maybe I didn't give it a fair chance, but it instantly disappointed me.I opened 5 gifs in new tabs and CPU usage rushed to 100% an all cores for half a minute.

But often it's the small things that make or break it. For me it was that HTML5 videos don't fullscreen to a new workspace on macOS like they do in Chrome or Safari.

Re: It’s time to give Firefox another chance

#13
Worth looking at this resource, which seems to suggest that Chrome still leads in some of the benchmarks, even in memory usage:

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=firefox-...

Just one study among many, but, worth keeping in mind. Firefox is making strides, but Mozilla still has work to do if they want to stop losing market share. I say this as a Firefox user.

Re: It’s time to give Firefox another chance

#14

Am 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.

While it's true the firefox debugger is lacking in certain areas, it's also better than chrome in others. Debugging CSS animations is much easier in firefox, but firefox lacks a way to look at websocket packets.

One thing I like about firefox is that its debugger is a just a React webapp : https://github.com/devtools-html/debugger.html. So it's fairly easy to add to it !

Re: It’s time to give Firefox another chance

#15

Am 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.

I’ve found the firefox dev tools to be quite good, maybe even better. For instance, I’ve found it has a little better tools for working with iframes.

Re: It’s time to give Firefox another chance

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I tried to like the new Firefox, maybe I didn't give it a fair chance, but it instantly disappointed me.I opened 5 gifs in new tabs and CPU usage rushed to 100% an all cores for half a minute. But often it's the small things that make or break it. For me it was that HTML5 videos don't fullscreen to a new workspace on macOS like they do in Chrome or Safari.

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