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Firefox desktop market share now below 9%

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Re: Firefox desktop market share now below 9%

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Post by jholman »

viswaprasath wrote: post #263
EpicEng wrote: post #95

Earlier quoted context omitted.

DevTools are lacking and they broke a ton of add ons with the API update (with no simple way to side load.) I can't use it. I tried again about five months ago and, one two machines, pages would stutter as I scrolled. Not worth my time to mess around with.

Would love to know your favorite add-ons that are broken and not available in AMO for FF57+ some of the contributors during their free time working on to bring extensions. can you share link or about the addon ( https://github.com/firefox-addons/ideas )

As one of the FF faithful, I almost quit when downthemall stopped working.

https://www.downthemall.net/

Re: Firefox desktop market share now below 9%

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Post by s9w »

Still puzzling to me. Chrome with its non-native, childish looks, questionable google integrations; and on the other hand the non-optional vertical tabs for firefox. I've never seen a tech-savy chrome user in the wild. Neither among colleagues, nor among friends.

Re: Firefox desktop market share now below 9%

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Post by thomasknowles »

Firefox on Linux appears to adopt the GTK themes (in my case Dark Themes) for web elements (Forms, message poxes, etc) and I have great difficulty removing the customisation. Chrome based browsers do not do that and it's one of the primary reasons I still use Chrome.

Re: Firefox desktop market share now below 9%

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Post by xg15 »

dak1 wrote: post #48
bjz_ wrote: post #9

Been really enjoying Firefox, especially after Quantum. More devs should support and use it, lest we be beholden to Chrome for the rest of time.

I would love to use Firefox more for dev, but until it has a first class way to disable CORS, I can't. "CORS Everywhere" is not sufficient (it alters responses, but does not actually disable CORS, which doesn't cover all needs). Chrome I can at least disable CORS via the command line, and Safari does it best by putting it in a Developer menu that I can easily toggle. Firefox's dev tools also seem to still be behind —…

Out of couriosity, wouldn't it be an option to implement CORS? From my understanding, it's just a few static headers.

Agreed with the missing WebSocket inspection.

Re: Firefox desktop market share now below 9%

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Post by interesthrow2 »

Personal reasons why I'm using Chrome right now instead of Firefox: Chrome is faster, or feel faster, why I don't know, but it seems to perform better on low end gear. It starts fast and most pages don't seem to "block" while loading. Second, I despise Firefox dev tools, period. I hate the console input being stuck in on a single line, this isn't how most CLI UI work, so why does it make sense for Firefox to do that? it doesn't.

Obviously since Google started pulling that "logged in Gmail == logged in Chrome" stupid stunt, I want to move away from Chrome, but Firefox will seldom be my first choice as an alternative.

Re: Firefox desktop market share now below 9%

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Post by dajonker »

jeswin wrote: post #23

I have switched to Firefox on mobile as well. There are some occasional hiccups (rare), but the speedup and battery life you gain from ad-blocking makes it totally worth it. For those who are evaluating, please install AdBlock before you take a call - and do try it for a few days.

Yes, having ad blocking on mobile makes a huge difference in usability as well.

Re: Firefox desktop market share now below 9%

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Post by qmarchi »

interesthrow2 wrote: post #275

Personal reasons why I'm using Chrome right now instead of Firefox: Chrome is faster, or feel faster, why I don't know, but it seems to perform better on low end gear. It starts fast and most pages don't seem to "block" while loading. Second, I despise Firefox dev tools, period. I hate the console input being stuck in on a single line, this isn't how most CLI UI work, so why does it make sense for Firefox to do that?…

Have you made any attempts to try out the new Firefox Developer Edition? They've done some revamping recently of the Dev tools (to the point that, yes, multi line is supported in the console)

Re: Firefox desktop market share now below 9%

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Post by polskibus »

interesthrow2 wrote: post #275

Personal reasons why I'm using Chrome right now instead of Firefox: Chrome is faster, or feel faster, why I don't know, but it seems to perform better on low end gear. It starts fast and most pages don't seem to "block" while loading. Second, I despise Firefox dev tools, period. I hate the console input being stuck in on a single line, this isn't how most CLI UI work, so why does it make sense for Firefox to do that?…

I find FF much faster in web apps (ie.Zeplin) or large websites than Chrome. I switched to FF also on Android, no regrets.

Re: Firefox desktop market share now below 9%

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Post by qmarchi »

giancarlostoro wrote: post #254
Klonoar wrote: post #177

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Camino was fantastic, used it back in the day. :) I'm not sure what Mozilla's deal is these days, to be honest, but Firefox really just doesn't feel like it fits in on Mac. It's frustrating, because I want to support it... but I just end up back in Safari because it feels far more smooth and integrated.

I got into using macOS later on but after 10 years of Firefox I had no issue with it on the Mac. I guess I possibly did not even notice the bugs mentioned. Ironically I couldnt use Chrome after beta cause I was too used to how Firefox works.

I was originally using chrome for pretty much everything, but I started getting annoyed with the performance hiccups and I wasn't switching over to Safari because of the failure of the extension ecosystem ($99 to publish an extension?). Firefox being the best choice out there has been positive to the point where I don't have Chrome installed on anything other than my phone.

Re: Firefox desktop market share now below 9%

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Post by Semaphor »

Groxx wrote: post #267
Semaphor wrote: post #266

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Thanks, but I know about the about:config string. Especially with very low values, it had some weird behavior last time I tried it.

yea, doesn't really surprise me. most about:config is pretty hit or miss. out of curiosity tho: was that before the UI overhaul (i.e. have you done it since it became HTML+CSS instead of XUL)? personally I'm loving Tree Style Tab, so I don't really pay attention to the tabbar any more.

I only started using FF after some bigger release this year, it was too slow for me before.

And good point about Tree Tabs. I've been wanting to try it for a while, might as well do it now :)

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