I haven't used FF in years but I've been so impressed with 57 that I've finally come home. I'm wondering if I'm alone. If you switched, please let us know why you decided to switch.
Ask HN: Who's switched from Chrome to Firefox 57?
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Re: Ask HN: Who's switched from Chrome to Firefox 57?
#2The interface still feels less streamlined compared to Chromium. Also sync was hit and miss, the same as 3-4 years ago when I last used Firefox.
Re: Ask HN: Who's switched from Chrome to Firefox 57?
#3I have, temporarily. Some bugs and occasional slowness, coupled with more memory hogging, have me reconsidering.
Re: Ask HN: Who's switched from Chrome to Firefox 57?
#4I switched to test it, not sure yet whether or not I will stay using it all the time. I definitely notice the speed and the built in screenshot support is pretty nice.
Re: Ask HN: Who's switched from Chrome to Firefox 57?
#5I really like container tabs (you have to enable them in about:config - privacy.userContext.enabled and privacy.userContext.ui.enabled). It allows me to have multiple AWS accounts open at the same time without having 2 different browsers or one account open in private mode. I have 2 main containers I use: production and staging.
Re: Ask HN: Who's switched from Chrome to Firefox 57?
#6I switched. I really like the performance boost, and it just generally feels "snappier". I also had a long seeded desire to support FireFox, so now felt like a great time to jump ship.
Re: Ask HN: Who's switched from Chrome to Firefox 57?
#7I usually have around 100+ tabs open in Chrome at any given time on my 2014 macbook pro. I have been testing out Firefox 57 for about a month now. I am very impressed by the devtools UI and the customization features. The speed is something I don't have to worry about at all, and makes it easier to compare Chrome to Firefox. I am fortunately not in a situation where any of my addons/extensions are unsupported on either browser. It has been fun to compare them and I think I will be switching completely to Firefox.
Re: Ask HN: Who's switched from Chrome to Firefox 57?
#8I guess I'll start it off. I've done a apples-to-apples compare on memory usage of 7 tabs with the same content and FF57 came in at 514 MG to chrome's 512 so that's basically a wash.
The speed has been the main factor along with being able to step away from Google, if only a little bit.
Re: Ask HN: Who's switched from Chrome to Firefox 57?
#9I use Chrome as my secondary browser only when I need to inspect/develop, but I'm using Firefox more often now.
Re: Ask HN: Who's switched from Chrome to Firefox 57?
#10I have couldn't be more happier. The ability for Firefox nightly to modify requests and resend is a bonus. Also less sluggish and quicker. Ublock origin and last pass both supported with nightly.