Omega Kirby
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Chrome is naturally the best choice
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Former Mozilla CTO: "Chrome won."
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whiteninja
Member
Switched years ago due to FF locking up occasionally. Though I prefer firefox on android since it's the only browser I can seem to get adblock to work with.
Steeped in a Sea of Games
Member
I always used Firefox because the market leader is usually the one most targeted for malicious exploits. It seems like that logic should still be viable today.
I knew Chrome and Safari were doing better than Firefox, but I didn't know the gap to Chrome was that huge. I also didn't know that FF was barely doing any better than IE.
There are some things that I like better on Firefox, but I just can't use it anymore. It's simply way too much slower than Chrome.
There are some things that I like better on Firefox, but I just can't use it anymore. It's simply way too much slower than Chrome.
DontBeThatGuy
Member
I mess with all the browsers on occasion out of boredom, but always end up defaulting back to Chrome. (after years of being an Opera user, that is)
Roberto Larcos
Member
Was it patched at all? I loved it, but found it too unstable for day-to-day use.
I like Safari the most in terms of design and usability but the extensions are really limited so I use Firefox. Not sure what I'll do when Firefox discontinues its current extension API thing. Might switch to one of the forks.
Chrome is a botnet so it's out of contention.
Chrome is a botnet so it's out of contention.
CheesecakeRecipe
Stormy Grey
Mozilla introduced one of the best features to Firefox with Tab Candy/Panorama/Tab Groups, which was an answer for my chronic tab usage, especially during heavy research days. Then, they discontinued it because they claimed it would be too much work to keep functional as they rewrote core parts of Firefox. A developer quickly created a decent replacement as a plugin, but that's being discontinued because Mozilla is reinventing the wheel again. Mozilla also had plugin certification issues that caused several developer friends to drop support for Firefox for a little while.
Mozzarella Flamedoggo was my browser of choice for a few years, but they only ever seem to get in their own way. Chrome has changed very little about itself to the average user - both a good and a bad thing - but that stability has paid off in the long run. Firefox for Android's jittery scrolling issues persisting for years, while they make changes elsewhere that nobody seemed to ask for, is another example. It's been 'fixed in the nightlies' for at least the past two years. I'll just stick with Brave.
Mozzarella Flamedoggo was my browser of choice for a few years, but they only ever seem to get in their own way. Chrome has changed very little about itself to the average user - both a good and a bad thing - but that stability has paid off in the long run. Firefox for Android's jittery scrolling issues persisting for years, while they make changes elsewhere that nobody seemed to ask for, is another example. It's been 'fixed in the nightlies' for at least the past two years. I'll just stick with Brave.
SporeCrawler
Member
man so this is the end of netscape?
Herr Schwarz
Banned
Chrome eats too much ram for what its doing
I use thunderbird
Are there other email clients that offer the same number of options thunderbird has? I honestly haven't looked around.
megarockexe
Member
It's sad when your browser of choice doesn't make it. Or rather, is such a distant second. I've used Firefox for years, ever since I found it installed on a school computer in 2005.
I just don't like using Chrome. Its overly simplified context menu and all custom UI just doesn't feel right.
I just don't like using Chrome. Its overly simplified context menu and all custom UI just doesn't feel right.
Princess Viola
Member
I used to use FF for years before switching to Chrome.
Still have FF because I've occasionally had sites that didn't work in Chrome, for whatever reason, but the one thing I always noticed was how slow FF was compared to Chrome.
Still have FF because I've occasionally had sites that didn't work in Chrome, for whatever reason, but the one thing I always noticed was how slow FF was compared to Chrome.
Why aren't you using your real name and a photo of you here?
axisofweevils
Holy crap! Today's real megaton is that more than two people can have the same first name.
Doesn't chrome still have trouble with animated GIFs? Firefox still for me.
Fnord
Member
This is the primary reason IE needs to die.
DiipuSurotu
Banned
I use thunderbird
Are there other email clients that offer the same number of options thunderbird has? I honestly haven't looked around.
Dunno but nowadays people tend to just use webmails (and Outlook at work).
openrob
Member
I loved opera, using chrome for many years now out of convenience, but my friend was telling me this week that it's still really good.
Doctoglethorpe
Member
Chrome on Android, safari on iOS, edge on windows. Sorry Mozilla. You used to be pretty much the only option, but now with operating system integration the other three big boys are just better.
Mechanized
Member
You will pry Firefox from my cold dead hands.
This! Although I still use FF on Linux distros.
otakuderek
Member
I'm mainly on iOS, so I use Safari for about everything.
Uno Venova
Banned
This question doesn't really answer mine. How is Google's 'collection of data comparable?
and I have used a real photo in the past.
Angelus Errare
Banned
Kind of a weak argument they're making. They start out by saying MS and Apple if they won the browser wars would simply replace chrome as the "default". With that said, everyone should use Firefox because if we become the default we wouldn't want "world domination".
If you're the default then you're kinda already on that whole "world domination" path.
Also kind of dumb considering how much Apple values privacy.
Pushing web standards and new features really took off when Chrome came into play. Now they weren't the first trying to create meaningful web standards and get people off this whole fractured browser nonsense, but Mozilla was going at their own pace. Chrome was the browser that forced them to be way more quick on it.
Lastly Mozilla waited too damn long to start retooling their browser
Heavy Iron Industries
Member
I was a fan of Opera until my favorite sites looked funky with it.
Schrade
Member
I think a lot of the reason is because Firefox/Mozilla have been making it look and act more and more like Chrome and saying "screw you" to the people who loved what Firefox was.
They've been taking away Extension functionality bit by bit and making it be more like Chrome's extensions.
They've been changing the UI to be more like Chrome.
I mean if they want to be Chrome then why should people use Firefox?
I switched to Pale Moon years ago. It is what Firefox used to be and I really truly hope it's not going to go the way of the DoDo like Cyberfox and Firefox are.
Spiritwalker
Member
Opera Neon looks dope. I might check that out.
I switched from FF to Chrome in the late 00s (or 2010) and haven't looked back since. Never had any problems with it.
I switched from FF to Chrome in the late 00s (or 2010) and haven't looked back since. Never had any problems with it.
MercuryLS3
Junior Member
Safari all day everyday.
Angelus Errare
Banned
Vivaldi is pretty nice.
MercuryLS3
Junior Member
This and it kills battery a lot faster than Safari on my mac.
the vast majority of the internet is browsed by phone, desktops are now a minority.
Android ships with Chrome by default.
iOS ships with Safari as it's only browser engine. Both Chrome and Safari are based off the Webkit rendering engine.
So everyone designs for that rendering engine. Yeah, Google forked it into Blink or whatever, but most of the internet can be described as being browsed by Webkit. Even Opera switched to it. So only IE and Firefox are separate for known browsers.
opticalmace
Member
Wut at the curve fitting for chrome. It doesn't even have the right curvature.
newtypepilot
Member
I still use firefox for both desktop and mobile. It has better extensions imo and ublock origin is not available on chrome mobile without root.
Shadow Puppetry
Member
Still using Firefox since forever and will continue to do so.
Yep. Still use Firefox because of mouse gestures, not to mention uBlock and others. You can do a gesture anywhere to do anything in Firefox, which you have never been able to do in Chrome, hence it will never be a viable product for me to use.
Rodney McKay
Member
I'm Firefox on the Desktop but Chrome+Samsung Browser for mobile.
I tried Firefox on mobile for a long time, but the scrolling was always worse and I never liked the font and I could never change it (letters were too tall and narrow).
I do get he occasional video issue in Firefox on the desktop and switching to Chrome would fix it, so I'm not surprised a lot of people have permanently switched, if even just for that.
I tried Firefox on mobile for a long time, but the scrolling was always worse and I never liked the font and I could never change it (letters were too tall and narrow).
I do get he occasional video issue in Firefox on the desktop and switching to Chrome would fix it, so I'm not surprised a lot of people have permanently switched, if even just for that.
Don't worry by 2019 Chrome is going to be used by 120% of all web traffic
thoseAREmySHOES
Member
Yeah, I didn't either. It hasn't been perfect the last few updates, but nothing bad enough for me to want to switch.
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