We live in the era of browser monopoly. Google occupied the whole web by its Chrome. Chrome has more than 50% of users:
Safari is on the second place just because of macOS popularity.
Now, most of the developers choose between Chrome and Firefox. And in 2017 Mozilla released their updated version of Firefox — Firefox Quantum with new customization settings, better extensions support, privacy and what's more important — speed. 2x faster than old Firefox and faster than Chrome.
Firefox using their own new engine with new Quantum CSS and Quantum DOM rendering. A lot of explanations here. And Chrome uses a lot of memory, Firefox — less.
Also, Firefox has a lot of useful features like showing useless CSS rules and supports prefers-color-scheme: dark media rules, that Chrome supports only in beta now.
Do you scare about extensions? Now, most developers write their extensions for both Chrome and Firefox.
And the final reason — stop the monopoly. Give a chance to other companies that smaller and you can see how frontend develops.
Move all your bookmarks in Firefox for one week and try.
Latest comments (99)
A chance? Where Mozilla removed all their unique creations to be mainstream user compatible and removed their massive amount of customization almost fully in the meantime out of the browser?
Also, Mozilla is dominated and controlled by Google and Mozilla jumps if their overlord commands them to do so.
Seeing no reason why i should support sell-outs - both moral wise and concept wise!
A chance? After Mozilla made a pathetic Chrome imitation browser out of it to be mainstream compatible and for this removed their own unique creation and massive customization abilities?
I see no reason why i should support a cheap sell-out company which is the slave of Google and does everything what their overlord demands.
Why Firefox is useless as a development tool? Works good for me: love seeing useless CSS styles and work with fonts
Why go give chance to Firefox instead of using and sync Chrome on all platforms. Because if you like Google Ecosystem, but don't have Chromebook (original, not with installed Linux), your single way to that ecosystem is Chrome with all it sync of accounts, history etc. Firefox just don't do it very well, because they don't have their own OS now(who remember FirefoxOs?)) If you are paranoid, I am sure, that Firefox don't secure enough for you, so you will go with Thor. BUT Firefox and some other browsers must exist and try to overthrought Chrome (despite they obviously don't able to do it) because competition will move industry (browser in our case) forward. Shortly, Firefox and other than Chrome browsers must exist, but they are doomed to fail, because they are not ready to world of tech ecosystems
Yes, Chrome in some aspects is better than most of the browsers, but now Firefox has interesting features for web developers (for example dev.to/gabe/four-firefox-dev-tools...). I also love Chrome and it's very good working with cache, but a lot of developers using ONLY Chrome, that's not good. We need to support other companies and users, who use Firefox and use what is convenient in our case. Using ONLY Chrome is like using a spoon for all of our cases (do you like digging with a spoon?)
Chrome with all it plugins is module swiss knife, while firefox is swiss knife, but some instruments doesn't look or work as good as in chrome
Swiss knife is a bad knife, bad screwdriver, bad corkscrew, bad scissors but all in one. Not so good
You haven't just used good Swiss knifes)
Forgot to mention, Google's site like search, YouTube, gmail etc are undoubtedly popular and just works better with Chrome (it can be just tricks from Google, but they have rights to use them imo,because these services are developed by then)
Great article, i will give a chance to Firefox
Thanks!
they betrayed us by removing extensions in 57 and are not doing anything to get us back
they have to atone for their sins, they have to pay us back in full, and in the meantime we have Waterfox that cares about people, unlike Mozilla
The only reason I don't use
Firefoxbecause of its aesthetics. Chrome just looks good, I have no problem with performance as my laptop's configuration is good enough to handle 100+ tabs in Chrome while running 2-3 instances of VS Code and some other small applications.Show me how to customize its look and feel!!!
Firefox just looks good for me. Don't have problems with it
It's really difficult moving away from chrome for browsing. This is more difficult now that all my passwords are randomly generated and I access them by being 2-Factor authenticated into chrome, not to mention all the other information synchronized via cloud.
Moving away from anything is difficult, but sometimes it's worth
Have almost switched a few times in the last few months and finally did today. Exported my chrome passwords to last pass and away we go.
Good step!
In Firefox on MacOS, I don't know what the problem is, but my 2017 MacBook Pro has TERRIBLE battery life when using Firefox. And I mean terrible. It literally will use 1-2% of battery per minute, and will drain my battery in about an hour to an hour and a half at most.
This is a known bug with screen scaling on MacOS, but oddly when I recently reinstalled MacOS and didn't touch the Display Settings, the bug still happened. Until this is fixed, Safari gives me several times the battery life. I wish I could use Firefox, but it just has a lot of performance problems on my laptop. :(
I am using Windows + Firefox and after realizing this article I hear a lot of bad comments from MBP Firefox users. Strange bug with performance and battery life. Mozilla need to fix this
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