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Firefox: 46 features you might not know about

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Re: Firefox: 46 features you might not know about

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Post by daleharvey »

this is such an awesome list, the best thing about it is that safari and chrome support a good chunk of these as well, I never even knew pointer events were implemented.

add websockets(which are coming soon), and the one features that really dissapoints me since noone seems to want to address it, clipboard access, and you have a pretty solid base to build most applications.

Re: Firefox: 46 features you might not know about

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Post by booticon »

Methos wrote: post #3
webwright wrote: post #2

They should add the following features: - speed - reliability - small footprint Until then, I'm going to stick with Chrome.

I face this dilemma of using Chrome for speed and small footprint VS gazillions of firefox extensions...

FWIW the latest beta of Chrome supports extensions, and there's quite a bit to choose from. Not quite at the level of Firefox, but it's a heck of a start.

Re: Firefox: 46 features you might not know about

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Post by decode »

webwright wrote: post #2

They should add the following features: - speed - reliability - small footprint Until then, I'm going to stick with Chrome.

This gets said every time Firefox comes up here, so I have to finally ask what I've been confused about for a while: exactly what things are faster that you like so much?

I've used both Firefox and Chrome and all of the things I do more than once a day (open new tabs, close tabs, open new windows) are so fast on both that I can't really tell the difference. Is it stuff like that? Or are there web apps I'm not using that are noticeably faster on Chrome? I'm genuinely curious what I'm missing out on.

Re: Firefox: 46 features you might not know about

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Post by daleharvey »

decode wrote: post #8
webwright wrote: post #2

They should add the following features: - speed - reliability - small footprint Until then, I'm going to stick with Chrome.

This gets said every time Firefox comes up here, so I have to finally ask what I've been confused about for a while: exactly what things are faster that you like so much? I've used both Firefox and Chrome and all of the things I do more than once a day (open new tabs, close tabs, open new windows) are so fast on both that I can't really tell the difference. Is it stuff like that? Or are there web apps I'm not using t…

can people not downvote genuine questions below 0, this was not trolling, downvoting is not for general disagreement.

xul which is used by firefox to render the ui, while being really easy to use and modify, is incredibly slow, firefoxs renderer is also a little slower, but I think most of it is on the responsiveness in the ui, most people attribute this to the different javascript engines but actually they are very similiar in speed.

Re: Firefox: 46 features you might not know about

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Post by samdk »

decode wrote: post #8
webwright wrote: post #2

They should add the following features: - speed - reliability - small footprint Until then, I'm going to stick with Chrome.

This gets said every time Firefox comes up here, so I have to finally ask what I've been confused about for a while: exactly what things are faster that you like so much? I've used both Firefox and Chrome and all of the things I do more than once a day (open new tabs, close tabs, open new windows) are so fast on both that I can't really tell the difference. Is it stuff like that? Or are there web apps I'm not using t…

Chrome is significantly faster on a resource-limited computer. I use it on my EeePC for that reason. On more powerful computers I don't notice enough of a difference to feel the need to switch.
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