I did give it a try. I used it like I use Chrome. Many tabs open and keeping them open for a couple of days. I did that a couple of times. It, of course, crashed every single time and for some reason made my 4GHz quad-core i7 with 64Gb memory freeze for 5 minutes where I couldn't even ^d in a terminal.
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#42I switched cold turkey to Firefox a few months ago. It was fine for a bit but eventually became unbearably slow. I made the switch on both my work MacBook Pro (retina) and my personal MacBook Air. Both had similar issues. That and the fact that it ships with things like Pocket made me jump back to Chrome.
Different strokes. This certainly was not my experience.
What you didn't find to be true in your case - Firefox becoming slower over time (as OP says) or Firefox shipping with Pocket? Or both?
Personally my reason was Pocket incident and since then I never went back to Firefox. Checked few months ago and they still had Pocket. Besides I am pretty happy on Safari except the lack of extensions which I am kind of used to by now.
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#43When it stops being a battery hog on Macs, sure. On Android the performance is comparable to Chrome, but I can never get used to some of their UXes (pressing the X button doesn't clear the address bar, instead closes it). Also no seamless page opening with Google search app (although I suspect they can't do much about this)
Google search opens a ChromeCustomTab.
AFAIK the implementation of CustomTabs is open and the API agnostic so Firefox could provide FirefoxCustomTabs if they wanted to.
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#44Some of us never left :)
Yeah, I mean I only switched from IE because it froze my computer if it ever opened more than one window (this was a Windows ME system with about half the ram ME claimed as required). I've been Mozilla since ~2002. The idea of switching for anything short of the apocalypse just seems weird, like getting rid of a car because it's a couple years old.
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#45Also, Print options really suck on Firefox. They should copy from Chrome.
I think it's pretty annoying that Chrome doesn't use the system print dialog by default. It repeatedly confuses the less savvy users where I work.
The chrome print dialog is totally broken for us. It always tries to use the wrong size paper from an empty paper tray. We always need to click through to the system print dialog. I need to tell people to do that every single time because they forget every single time. I should switch everyone to FF just for that.
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#46Firefox permanently broke Pentadactyl. I'm really not going to be excited about Firefox until it has something of that caliber again.
With all due respect, less than 0.1% of browser users likely feel that way. Don't mean to discredit or invalidate your feelings, I just feel the need to disclaim that it's impossible to meet people's need with that granularity. The alternative is that they keep XUL, make 0.1% of the install base happy, and ditch the performance increases that Quantum/WebExtension have given us... at which point there wouldn't be a NY…
The one thing I wanted from XUL was tree style tabs, and Firefox managed to add enough APIs to make tree style tabs work in the post-XUL era.
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#47If I would have ever switched to Chrome, it would have been to save probably less then one minute per day (when Chrome was faster)... not worth it for me.
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#48I switched back a few months ago on all of my devices and only go back when I need Chrome devtools, Firefox is absolutely back in its prime. Feels just as speedy as Chrome on desktop and mobile, and handles large numbers of tabs better. Ironically, or maybe intentionally, Google services are the only thing degraded. Google even refuses to give you the regular home page. Thankfully you can just get an extension that f…
the real answer is, where you can, move off of google services. I've gone to duckduckgo and i'll never go back.
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#49Earlier quoted context omitted.
Not sure I understand. I routinely have a personal Google Drive tab and a work tab in Chrome. Ditto with email.
There are occasions where Google’s native multi account management falls flat.
I have had problems. I don't remember what I did but they went away. And now I use two accounts in Chrome routinely without issues.
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#50I didn’t realize it went anywhere.