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The App store idea isn't that dissimilar to the add-ons Firefox has had essentially since it was born (along with a central repository), especially since Firefox add-ons can do so much more with the browser. Admittedly, there's no concept of money with the add-ons, which makes them almost useless as a way to build a business.
According to Snowden's leaked Prism slides, Google was brought into the NSA fold on the 14th of January 2009. So Firefox is well over 4 years behind Chrome in that respect as well. Get your act together, Mozilla!
Seriously? Can't there be one discussion on here that isn't about Snowden or Prism?
I began using Firefox a long time ago (when it was called Phoenix) but switched to Chrome. A couple months ago I switched back to Firefox because Chrome lost my open tab session in some cases (hard crashes when loading the old session), due to privacy issues and because it often triggered long swaps (locking the process) when dealing with lots of tabs (I usually have like 50-60 tabs open in several windows). Also bec…
However the slowness of Firefox when Firebug is on when loading resource-heavy pages starts really bothering me.
With all the nice items recently implemented in Chrome and all the lagging behind and alleged slowness of Firefox, I still see "aw, snap! crash!" in Chrome an order of magnitude more frequently on my screen than Firefox crash reports. However the slowness of Firefox when Firebug is on when loading resource-heavy pages starts really bothering me.
Edit: Maybe it's just me? I'll have a look at my settings. Thanks!!
Chrome was years behind Firefox, too: https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=143 - from at least 2008 thorough 2012 there was no proper color management in Chrome, while Firefox had it. This was a deal-breaker for some users. Eventually Chrome copied what Firefox had for many years. It goes both ways.