Ask HN: Who's switched from Chrome to Firefox 57? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: Who's switched from Chrome to Firefox 57?

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Post by apetresc » Wed, Nov 15, 2017, 8:58 PM UTC

I switched a few weeks ago when 57 hit the Nightly channel. The main incentive towards Firefox for me has always been the Tree Style Tab extension[1]; it's just that Chrome's better performance used to be a stronger incentive. Now they're more-or-less equal on that front.

[1]: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tree-style-ta...

Re: Ask HN: Who's switched from Chrome to Firefox 57?

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Post by pitaj » Wed, Nov 15, 2017, 8:58 PM UTC

I've been running FF Nightly for weeks now, and I really like it. It feels snappier than Chrome, and I hope it can bring back a significant portion of developers as well.

Re: Ask HN: Who's switched from Chrome to Firefox 57?

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Post by ohazi » Wed, Nov 15, 2017, 8:58 PM UTC

I switched on my work laptop a few months ago, with the knowledge that 57 was the one to look out for. Got the update yesterday and was impressed enough to switch at home as well.

I've also been using Firefox on my phone for a while now, specifically so that I can run ublock origin and video speed controller, since mobile chrome doesn't support extensions.

Re: Ask HN: Who's switched from Chrome to Firefox 57?

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Post by ryduh » Wed, Nov 15, 2017, 8:58 PM UTC

dmlittle wrote: post #5

I 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.

Whoa. Didn't know about that. Definitely going to give FF a shot now. Thanks!

Re: Ask HN: Who's switched from Chrome to Firefox 57?

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Post by steven_pack » Wed, Nov 15, 2017, 8:59 PM UTC

Yep. Like to see some competition and I’m a huge fan of rust, so like to support it any way I can.

I hit minor compatibility issues on some sites, but it’s rare.

Main thing I miss is auto shrinking tabs. FF doesn’t support the bajillion tabs methodology so well right now.

Re: Ask HN: Who's switched from Chrome to Firefox 57?

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Post by ojame » Wed, Nov 15, 2017, 8:59 PM UTC

I've given it a decent shot - but it still has very average profile support, which I use daily. In Chrome, it's easy to see what profile I'm using (top right corner of the window), and very easy to switch.

In Firefox, you need to go to about:profiles to even see what profile you're currently using.

Re: Ask HN: Who's switched from Chrome to Firefox 57?

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Post by peyloride » Wed, Nov 15, 2017, 8:59 PM UTC

I did the switch. The only time I switch the Chrome back is using to debug some angular code. For an odd reason, Firefox shows stack traces too ugly.

Re: Ask HN: Who's switched from Chrome to Firefox 57?

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Post by jpdb » Wed, Nov 15, 2017, 9:00 PM UTC

dmlittle wrote: post #5

I 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.

> It allows me to have multiple AWS accounts open at the same time

I didn't think much about container tabs til I read this. This will be awesome for me. Thanks!

Re: Ask HN: Who's switched from Chrome to Firefox 57?

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Post by Xcelerate » Wed, Nov 15, 2017, 9:00 PM UTC

I've used Chrome continuously ever since it was released, but today I switched to Firefox on both my work and personal laptops.

Both machines are Macbook Pros, one 2012 and the other 2017, and Chrome feels laggy on both. Scrolling is not smooth, and certain web applications are just downright unpleasant to use (notably, Jupyter notebooks and Facebook).

I gave Firefox Quantum a try, and it's an amazing improvement. This is more how I imagined computers to function in 2017 to be honest. There is no noticeable lag on either machine. So I'll be sticking with Firefox for the foreseeable future.

Re: Ask HN: Who's switched from Chrome to Firefox 57?

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Post by jelder » Wed, Nov 15, 2017, 9:01 PM UTC

dmlittle wrote: post #5

I 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.

Chrome has this as a first-class feature, "People." I have one window open for personal, and another for each of the AWS accounts I have access to. Sounds from your description like FF can do this at the tab level?