Give Firefox a chance

#1

Post by dtroode » Sun, Jun 23, 2019, 10:12 AM UTC

Re: Give Firefox a chance

#2

Post by vehemenz » Sun, Jun 23, 2019, 11:20 AM UTC

I've given Firefox multiple chances, but we've had no progress with the MacOS performance issues for years. Also, no pinch-to-zoom? 2007 called, and it wants its browser back.

Re: Give Firefox a chance

#3

Post by BozeWolf » Sun, Jun 23, 2019, 11:24 AM UTC

vehemenz wrote: post #2

I've given Firefox multiple chances, but we've had no progress with the MacOS performance issues for years. Also, no pinch-to-zoom? 2007 called, and it wants its browser back.

Energy usage on MacOS is another problem, especially compared to safari.

I am using safari for a while now, but every now and then you just have to admit chrome does some things much better, like tab management and the dev tools are more user friendly. Which, i realize, is the case for firefox btw. Ff tab management and dev tools are quite nice.

Re: Give Firefox a chance

#4

Post by wtmt » Sun, Jun 23, 2019, 11:26 AM UTC

Not a lot of details compared to what many others have said before. The developer tools enhancements in Firefox are interesting.

> Safari is on the second place just because of macOS popularity.

Shouldn’t this be “iOS” instead of “masOS”?

Re: Give Firefox a chance

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Post by vardump » Sun, Jun 23, 2019, 11:28 AM UTC

vehemenz wrote: post #2

I've given Firefox multiple chances, but we've had no progress with the MacOS performance issues for years. Also, no pinch-to-zoom? 2007 called, and it wants its browser back.

Lack of pinch-to-zoom has also ended all my attempts to move back to Firefox. Just too used to that.

It's equally useful both on Windows and macOS.

Re: Give Firefox a chance

#6

Post by stanislavb » Sun, Jun 23, 2019, 11:33 AM UTC

If only it was a bit faster.

Re: Give Firefox a chance

#7

Post by needle0 » Sun, Jun 23, 2019, 11:48 AM UTC

Vertical. Tabs. For my usecase, nuff said. Chrome developers WONTFIXed requests for this a long time ago, so keep using Firefox I will (that and doing my part to preserve web engine diversity).

Additionally, I've begun trying out Brave/Vivaldi/Opera to see if I can uninstall Chrome from my system entirely; They all run Blink, so I assume I can open the occasional compatibility-issue pages on those.

Re: Give Firefox a chance

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Post by ctvo » Sun, Jun 23, 2019, 11:54 AM UTC

These constant pleas to get me to use Firefox for some other motivation than features and performance won't work. I'll switch back in a day.

- Battery life on both iOS and macOS is poor compared to alternative (Safari)

- Dev tooling is poor compared to alternative (Chromium)

Re: Give Firefox a chance

#9

Post by glenrivard » Sun, Jun 23, 2019, 11:57 AM UTC

Why? Chrome works great and is the better browser, IMO.

Re: Give Firefox a chance

#10

Post by petepete » Sun, Jun 23, 2019, 11:59 AM UTC

I switched back to Firefox from Chrome earlier this year, and the experience has been very positive.

It performs well, feels snappy, the dev tools are on par with Chrome's and everything feels right.

The only negatives are that container tabs are still taking a bit of getting used to (why can't I have a 'Work' window in which all the new tabs are 'Work' tabs by default?) and the initial migration of passwords was a bit of a pain.

However, I'm glad to be back.