The title of the article (which is different from the title here, which is merely clickbaity) is misleading, though there is the potential that ad blocking becomes much worse due to the deprecation of the webRequest api mentioned in the article. If that does have a significant impact on ad blocking, I would expect many users (both devs and casual users) to switch to Firefox.
Google Just Gave 2B Chrome Users a Reason to Switch to Firefox
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Re: Google Just Gave 2B Chrome Users a Reason to Switch to Firefox
#52Earlier quoted context omitted.
Firefox on mobile has improved enormously since Quantum. It works well enough to ditch Chrome.
No it doesn't. For example to tap a link you have to tap it directly, links don't have a halo around them to make them easier to tap. Tapping things like the [-] buttons here in HN is very hard. It's stupid shit like that that makes it unusable for me. I don't believe for a second the developers of Firefox for Android use it every day and haven't fixed that. And if they don't dogfood what hope is there for that softw…
> I don't believe for a second the developers of Firefox for Android use it every day and haven't fixed that.
Why is that so unbelievable? I use Firefox every day and haven't even considered that this might be a problem. I don't have difficulty hitting the [-] on HN, but if I did, I would simply zoom in until it becomes large enough.
Re: Google Just Gave 2B Chrome Users a Reason to Switch to Firefox
#53Earlier quoted context omitted.
I hope to see Firefox eventually providing an embeddable framework, considering that Chromium isn't just monopolising the web browser space... it's spreading into desktop applications through Electron. Left unchecked, Google will manage to poke its fingers into every pie within reach. It seems like the ideal solution of using the OS's native web toolkit hasn't been successful so far. So the next best offering (aside…
I regret XUL was abandoned - it was a great idea, but much ahead of its time.
Plus one. This was the beggining of the rot in Mozila. This marked the moment the went from making general purpose web/http based platforms based on OpenSource principals to builing a single a www specific advertising platform. I still use Firefox and support them financially. Its the best we have. But they stopped caring about anything other that being the frontpage to the Internet a long time ago. They gave up on supporting developers.
Re: Google Just Gave 2B Chrome Users a Reason to Switch to Firefox
#54Earlier quoted context omitted.
That might be your personal impression but I don't share it. Development wise it's not so much about our pain as about certain known bugs that went unfixed for up to 2+ years, similar goes for a range of CVEs (re:being secure).
Do you believe Chrome or Firefox on Android to be faster or more secure than Safari on iOS?
Performances issues will be hard to estimate, as you can not compare safari to the others on the same phone, which means that you will not be able to correct for hardware and software stacks influences.
Re: Google Just Gave 2B Chrome Users a Reason to Switch to Firefox
#55Great to see mainstream media picking this up and giving Firefox some exposure. With Microsoft switching to Chromium, Firefox is now the only viable (cross platform) alternative. FF gaining back a solid amount of market share is critical for the browser ecosystem in the future. (Personally I switched back to FF after the first Quantum release, which brought performance back on par with Chrome. On mobile, the ad block…
Which site has the most reliable browser metrics?
https://data.firefox.com/dashboard/user-activity probably has the most reliable metrics on Firefox users. Not enough to compare to other browsers, but if there's a large switch from Chrome to Firefox, it should eventually show up on the graph.
Re: Google Just Gave 2B Chrome Users a Reason to Switch to Firefox
#56Earlier quoted context omitted.
What don’t you like about Firefox? Speaking as a FF user I have a hard time using Chrome too. In other words you get used to what you use and FF is a decent option.
Not the original commenter, but Firefox has noticeably poorer performance on my MacBook pro 2018, especially on react-heavy sites like the AWS Console or Twitch.tv
Mostly this, performance is atrocious on a lot of sites I use.
I also dislike its history management, download management, auto-complete, search in address bar functionality, pocket integration, and much more. I'm sure if I were forced to spend more time with it I could possibly find configurations to customize all those things in a way I like, but even using it for a few days the easily findable settings weren't flexible enough.
Re: Google Just Gave 2B Chrome Users a Reason to Switch to Firefox
#57I have one system I still use chrome on - my late-2013 Macbook Pro. The reason I use chrome as my main browser there is because Firefox and Slack do not seem to be friends on MacOS. I use slack in the browser rather than the native app and FF seems to get copy and paste functionality all messed up. I would use Safari, but some quirk of the office webmail (Outlook of some sort) means that email from Safari gets flagge…
I’ve got the same generation MBP. Why not just use the slack desktop app? I’ve never had a problem running that side by side with Firefox. And performance for both is nearly as good as on my current model laptop at work.
Re: Google Just Gave 2B Chrome Users a Reason to Switch to Firefox
#58by the way - if you want adblocking on Android, Firefox accepts extensions, including uBlockOrigin.
Re: Google Just Gave 2B Chrome Users a Reason to Switch to Firefox
#59Earlier quoted context omitted.
What don’t you like about Firefox? Speaking as a FF user I have a hard time using Chrome too. In other words you get used to what you use and FF is a decent option.
Not the original commenter, but Firefox has noticeably poorer performance on my MacBook pro 2018, especially on react-heavy sites like the AWS Console or Twitch.tv
Both Chrome and Firefox are noticeably heavier than Safari on macOS. The most obvious sign of that is battery usage.
Re: Google Just Gave 2B Chrome Users a Reason to Switch to Firefox
#60Earlier quoted context omitted.
I hope to see Firefox eventually providing an embeddable framework, considering that Chromium isn't just monopolising the web browser space... it's spreading into desktop applications through Electron. Left unchecked, Google will manage to poke its fingers into every pie within reach. It seems like the ideal solution of using the OS's native web toolkit hasn't been successful so far. So the next best offering (aside…
I regret XUL was abandoned - it was a great idea, but much ahead of its time.
That was before Firefox was born, right? Or was the success of Firefox the demise of XUL?