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[Atom Heart Mother]

Anyone use both at the same time?

I use Firefox for YouTube, GAF, and other shit like Reddit, etc. But Chrome is for anything school, work or personal related. So I'll do an essay on Chrome, but browse gaf in FF.

 

[BobLoblaw]

Firefox til I die. There's no way I'll ever trust a browser from Google of all companies.

 

[Dreams-Visions]

I still use firefox as my backup, but for me it was a memory leak in the browser.

Yep this.

The battle ended when I discovered The Great Suspender, Session Buddy, Ultrawide Video, and Disable HTML5 Autoplay.

The Great Suspender alone is worth switching for (though I think FF has something that functions similarly now). For me, anyway.

 

[Ultratech]

I still use Firefox, but it's got obvious issues with RAM and how it likes to completely freeze when completing Downloads or loading too much stuff (Facebook is a major offender of this).

It sucks since it used to be so good back in the day and now...I dunno.

As for Chrome, I only ever used it when I was having to look up stuff on foreign sites (Korean, JP, etc.).
I pretty much stayed away from it for the most part since it was terrible for gifs and the like for a long time.

And then Edge...Edge is a fucking terrible browser. I'm still wondering how anyone thought that thing was a good idea.

 

[knitoe]

I'll stick with Firefox for Noscript and the ability to download YouTube videos with a 1 click. If only Chrome offer the same thing.

 

[Goldenroad]

I use Firefox for a small amount of things and Chrome for everything else.

 

[Monty Mole]

I don't think Chrome is anything special, but it does seem the most stable and least bloated browser in my experience, which is why I use it. Except on my S8, where I use Samsung's browser which seems faster.

 

[Izayoi]

I use Firefox for a small amount of things and Chrome for everything else.

WINKY

FACE

 

[Izuna]

Chrome is amazing since their update that fixed the battery life issue

 

[One Eyed Willy]

Uninstalled FF about 4-5 years ago and haven't looked back. I use a mixture of Chrome and Edge with great success.

 

[Cynosure]

i tried hard to like Edge. it seemed to run perfectly with my SP4. but I use the touch interface a lot and Edge won't let me highlight texts. i get a "select all/print" instead. Chrome does it with no problems.
bye edge, chrome is treatin me good

 

[SolidChamp]

Wanna hear something totally crazy and slightly off-topic?

Nearly all of South Korea still uses IE in professional spaces.

*shudder*

 

[Erebus]

Dropped Firefox for Chrome about six years ago, and never looked back.

Firmly Safari on iOS though. Third-party iOS browsers are pretty much just GUIs on top of the built-in WebKit rendering engine anyway.

Is that still the case in iOS 10?

 

[Alexander DeLarge]

Firefox til I die. There's no way I'll ever trust a browser from Google of all companies.

Chromium is open source. Use Iridum Browser if Google is your concern.
https://iridiumbrowser.de

 

[ElFly]

Wanna hear something totally crazy and slightly off-topic?

Nearly all of South Korea still uses IE in professional spaces.

*shudder*

but that's cause south korea's e-commerce depends on an active-x plugin I think

a lot of companies still run on ie but it's ie11 which is p nice

I just completed a website for an intranet which MUST run on ie11 but just now discovered that in certain circumstances the company forces IE into "enterprise mode" which is a code name for ie11 emulating ie7 as much as possible, which means we can't have nice things

 

[DerZuhälter]

Is there anyway to move my bookmarks, cookies, browser history and stored passwords from FF to Chrome, without a huge hassle?

 

[Ultryx]

I use Chrome when I don't feel the need to remain hidden behind a VPN. When I want more security I switch over to Firefox.

 

[DeaconKnowledge]

I switched to chrome mainly for the universal bar, but got hooked by the the integration with other Google services and my phone. It's Godly.

I never cared much about the privacy argument - I don't see why anyone would care about the porn I look at, plus I feel it's a bit naive to trust any browser with my "sensitive" information. I could never get a good explanation from anyone about why the privacy argument is a big deal.

 

[JaseC]

I still use Firefox on my PC but switched to Vivaldi (Chromium-based) on my laptop the other month due to the lower resource footprint. Night and day difference. The only thing that bugs me is that Vilvaldi's address bar treats space as a character. E.g. If I type in sto ste in Firefox, I get a bunch of history recommendations related to store.steampowered.com, but Vivaldi treats the space as part of the desired URL and offers nothing but a search option.

 

[Herne]

Google are a massive company with a monopoly in search engines and access to the vast majority of the smartphone as well as control of that experience, so it's no wonder.

Using Firefox on my laptop and desktop, Opera on my phone.

 

[Blastoise]

Chrome + Extensions = For Daily Browsing

Safari + No Extensions = For Banking and Gvmt Stuff

Firefox + Addons = For Naughty Stuff

 

[NewGame]

What's causing the drop in Firefox usage?

When I was trying to use it I'd get nasty memory leaks that would freeze everything and it would have to force reset.

 

[Yoshi]

Post-antitrust MS has had no ability to do anything to earn market share fairly by competing. I don't anticipate anyone ever caring about or using Edge, because MS hasn't provided anything resembling a compelling reason why anyone would want to.

I use Firefox and Edge and if I want the browser to perform reasonably well, I use Edge, because Firefox drains memory like a vampire. I like the UI of Firefox more though.

 

[AngerdX]

I switched over to Vivaldi and i do like it the more i use it, and has replaced chrome for me.

 

[Angelus Errare]

Post-antitrust MS has had no ability to do anything to earn market share fairly by competing. I don't anticipate anyone ever caring about or using Edge, because MS hasn't provided anything resembling a compelling reason why anyone would want to.

I wouldn't say they haven't. It does genuinely have some nice ideas but it's only available on Windows 10. And those reasons aren't enough to switch from the wealth of Chrome extensions and the ability to sync basically everything across all devices.

I mean Chrome is available on damn near anything that has a processor, shit some refrigerators have it ffs.

 

[TheRedSnifit]

I used to use Opera a lot, but there was a time where it was unstable and slow so I switched to Chrome. Is it any good these days?

 

[Einchy]

Switched to Chrome once Firefox changed the way they did updates, rather than do huge numerical ones, they changed it up to doing a bunch of small ones but they still numbered them. I remember 2 and then 3 and then 4 all bringing a ton of new changes, so something about them releasing Firebox 8 or whatever and barely changing anything bothered me.

 

[paperboywriter]

firefox is garbage for porn.

 

[Roberto Larcos]

I used to use Opera a lot, but there was a time where it was unstable and slow so I switched to Chrome. Is it any good these days?

I switched back recently, and I'm really enjoying it. I'm not really a power user, 10 tabs open at a time maximum - but it's giving me no issues even with only 4GB RAM. Loving the new built-in dark theme, too. Not quite as pretty as Edge, but nothing is.

 

[Aiustis]

Firefox because if you leave a lot of open tabs it's easier to use:

Switch to tab feature

Turning off the sound coming from one a tab while staying on another

 

[Einchy]

Post-antitrust MS has had no ability to do anything to earn market share fairly by competing. I don't anticipate anyone ever caring about or using Edge, because MS hasn't provided anything resembling a compelling reason why anyone would want to.

The only reason I use Edge is for Netflix and it can't even do that right since it crashes if I pause between episodes.

I hate Chrome for not allowing 1080p on Netflix and forcing me to use Edge.

 

[IISANDERII]

Anybody try Firefox Focus? It's a browser which doesn't allow, trackers, advertising or cookies. I always block 3rd party cookies but Firefox Focus doesn't seem to even allow first party coookies. Maybe I'll use it for pornos

 

[Novocaine]

Rest of the world: No shit.

I moved off of Firefox when Chrome released and never looked back. It started to get really slow and Chrome felt lightning fast.

Nowadays I use Edge on Windows with Chrome as a backup because it's still a bit shit when it comes to certain sites. And Chrome on my phone.

 

[DiipuSurotu]

Anybody try Firefox Focus? It's a browser which doesn't allow, trackers, advertising or cookies. I always block 3rd party cookies but Firefox Focus doesn't seem to even allow first party coookies. Maybe I'll use it for pornos

You can do that in normal Firefox by setting literally one parameter in the settings menu.

 

[Mighty Chin]

I love chrome but for some unknown reason it won't enable Cookies and I can't access Google Products because it says cookies aren't enabled. Even though they are.

 

[nynt9]

Firefox because if you leave a lot of open tabs it's easier to use:

Switch to tab feature

Turning off the sound coming from one a tab while staying on another

I don't know what the first is and I googled it and all I found was people asking how to disable it, lol.

Chrome has the second.

 

[ronaldthump]

Im using firefox. I only use chrome to save tumblr porn.

 

[uncelestial]

If you have a problem with Google you should be using a Chromium derivative like Iridium so you can get Chrome without Google. Chrome is based on Chromium which is open source.

If you don't have a problem with Google you should be using Chrome because you can create fullscreen apps out of webpages, get the best CSS/HTML5 support that everyone making websites uses as a benchmark, and have a signed-in experience that syncs across devices, not to mention the omnibar with built in search suggestions that auto-complete beautifully and world-class developer tools.

Under no circumstances should anyone be using a Mozilla or Microsoft browser.

 

[fritolay]

What's causing the drop in Firefox usage?

Chrome

 

[neoism]

fuck chrome

 

[DiipuSurotu]

It always puzzles me when people touts Chrome's "sync across devices" feature as if it were a killer feature or something. Firefox has the exact same feature.

 

[gamz]

It always puzzles me how people touts Chrome's "sync across devices" feature, when Firefox has the exact same feature.

Yup. It does and works the same.

 

[Future]

I'm that guy that keeps a 100-500 tabs open at any given time. Despite my love for the Fox it doesn't seem to handle that load even close to as well as Chromium. Both CPU and memory usage are through the roof once you break 100 or so.

Holy shit. Are these the use cases that create all those memory leaks? Maybe that's why I never see these problems

How do you even surf like this? At that point you are just using tabs as bookmarks

 

[Nokterian]

Chrome has been better overall in the last 2 years orso, they really redeemed themself at least to me everything just works faster and i do like that my account is linked the same thing on my phone for example.

Ever since they fixed gifs that was the moment it went better.

 

[gamz]

If you have a problem with Google you should be using a Chromium derivative like Iridium so you can get Chrome without Google. Chrome is based on Chromium which is open source.

If you don't have a problem with Google you should be using Chrome because you can create fullscreen apps out of webpages, get the best CSS/HTML5 support that everyone making websites uses as a benchmark, and have a signed-in experience that syncs across devices, not to mention the omnibar with built in search suggestions that auto-complete beautifully and world-class developer tools.

Under no circumstances should anyone be using a Mozilla or Microsoft browser.

Disagree. Edge on Windows 10 is great.

 

[Struct09]

Dropped Firefox for Chrome about six years ago, and never looked back.

Firmly Safari on iOS though. Third-party iOS browsers are pretty much just GUIs on top of the built-in WebKit rendering engine anyway.

Chrome iOS updated earlier this year to use the same renderer as Safari, it was a major upgrade

 

[paperboywriter]

Disagree. Edge on Windows 10 is great.

last time i checked it basically had no addon support. is it better now?

 

[The Real Abed]

It always puzzles me when people touts Chrome's "sync across devices" feature as if it were a killer feature or something. Firefox has the exact same feature.

Yup. It does and works the same.

So does Safari.

Pretty much all browsers have this now. It's the reason I dumped Chrome when Apple added it. It was all I needed to make my decision to leave the (at the time) completely buggy and broken Chrome I was using. (And believe me, I was constantly reinstalling, uninstalling and switching channels, just to try and get a version that didn't have the worst bugs.)

Actually, I've never gotten Firefox Sync to work properly at all. It definitely doesn't work the same for me. Then again, does iOS even have an actual proper Firefox browser? Or is their app still just a bookmark machine that opens Safari for you? Even then it never properly synced with that for me either.

 

[Faddy]

Switched to Chrome once Firefox changed the way they did updates, rather than do huge numerical ones, they changed it up to doing a bunch of small ones but they still numbered them. I remember 2 and then 3 and then 4 all bringing a ton of new changes, so something about them releasing Firebox 8 or whatever and barely changing anything bothered me.

You know they changed to mimic Chrome's update model.

Current version of Chrome is v58, Firefox is v53.

 

[Vic]

So I tried to go back to Chrome on my Linux laptop and nah; Firefox consumes far less memory it's not even funny.