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I love Firefox but some JS heavy demos etc. just don't work fast enough. I hate that I know exactly why. It's because they were only ever tested on Chrome during development.
The OP is clearly having performance issues with Chrome presumably due to extensions interfering or something else. I can guarantee you that Google makes sure Gmail loads at least as fast in Chrome as in Firefox.
Chrome is customizable too (panes you can open/close), Chrome extensions are also thriving, and Chrome was the one who invented the "clean look", same as Firefox invented tabs.
This post just feels like weird marketing. There's nothing actually substantive about it. It doesn't feel like it belongs on HN.
I now use Brave on everything: Linux, Mac, iOS, iPadOS. Mozilla has some really weird stuff going on in their financials that bother me, and as a result, I just can’t use their products anymore. This is similar to my feelings about Google, Microsoft, and so on. I prefer tech companies to just be tech companies and not branch into other fields. I understand that Brave’s stance on certain things bleeds into politics wi…
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Have you read the last sentence as well? > It's because they were only ever tested on Chrome during development.
That only means the developers didn't care if it was fast, or even works, in other browsers. It says nothing about Firefox. The first sentence, where the author complains that JS heavy apps are too slow in Firefox, is the part that's about Firefox.
It does in no way imply that FF is worse than Chrome, but it does imply that (some) web developers are lazy.
The Tree Style Tab extension[1] is wonderful for "keeping tabs" on our modern "to forget" lists (unclosed tabs). Putting tabs on the left is also a good screen real estate trade for wide aspect ratio screens. [1]: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tree-style-ta...
The other thing I use a lot is firefox's readability builtin (it's not an extension), which removes all the cruft and *walls from websites and makes them... readable in one click.
These two together are killer apps for me. I might consider switching to another browser (firefox isn't exactly the paragon of virtue it used to be either anymore), but the new browser would need to have these two features.
And if you use it longer than 30 mins the memory leak will crash your computer. /s (this is my own experience, FWIW, but I understand not everyone has this.) -Emily
Sync'ing is great, general use is pretty good. I keep Chrome in backup for a handful of sites that just don't work on Firefox.
Not sure if it has changed recently but for ages the regular version of Firefox on Android lacked several things that were in Firefox Nightly (eg pull down to refresh, which might seem trivial but it's annoying as anything when it's not there!)
> 1. It opens websites really quickly, much faster than Chrome
This is the same thing everyone says whatever new browser they move to. Once some one hoards 100 tabs it becomes slow.
(Again,I am not against firefox or chrome - just meaning that everything is quick initially - somehow becomes slow in a few weeks)