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Did exactly this, a few weeks ago. Was heavy Chrome user, now fully on Firefox (and Safari on mobile). I am so satisfied with this decision, and the transition was much easier than expected.
I would do it instantly if the devtools were half as convenient as Chrome. Unfortunately they are super clunky
Everyone in this thread needs to put their money where their mouth is and go back to Firefox if they're currently using Chrome.
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Yes. After SPDY had already been implemented and shipped in Chrome.
It's not like interoperability suffered because of that. HTTP fallback was always there.
Where one actor can also start using the new "standard" overnight and break lots of services for people which are not using their browsers... You know what I mean. It's some kind of enforcing to have a monopoly.
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If building from scratch maybe, but when was the last time a browser was built from scratch? Even Chromium was forked from WebKit.
That's my point. The web is so complex that browser engines are becoming a monoculture. Even if you forked Chromium now, you'd need hundreds of engineers just to keep up with all the new things that are constantly added.
We're really far from IE6 era of complete stagnation.
It seems like more and more, Google is leveraging their near-monopoly on web browsing to just skip the proposal process and do whatever they want without discussion.
in this case it looked OK > Though existing HTML support for id and name attributes specifies the target element directly in the fragment, most other mime types make use of this x=y pattern in the fragment, such as Media Fragments (e.g. #track=audio&t=10,20), PDF (e.g. #page=12) or CSV (e.g. #row=4). fragments is already there but most pages do not have a clickable ID attribute. If Chrome could automatically provide…
Everyone in this thread needs to put their money where their mouth is and go back to Firefox if they're currently using Chrome.
Did it on Monday evening. Great choice, no problems at all. Could import all data, also switched to Firefox on my Smartphone where I can now run uBlock, too.
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Did it on Monday evening. Great choice, no problems at all. Could import all data, also switched to Firefox on my Smartphone where I can now run uBlock, too.
It makes such a difference on mobile being able to run a good blocker.