WebExtensions in Firefox 48

Re:WebExtensions in Firefox 48 by giovannibajo1 on Saturday April 30, 2016 @12:17AM (#11600325)

Yeah I agree. Firefox is slowly becoming a Chrome clone. It took them a long while to migrate everything to follow the Chrome lead (release strategy, update strategy, multiprocess architecture, sandboxing, extension API, HTML UI, etc.) but I wonder what's the benefit of having two identical browsers. Yes the HTML engine is different but then so what, I don't think end users are ever going to switch because of HTML engines.

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Re:WebExtensions in Firefox 48 by scrollaway on Saturday April 30, 2016 @07:01AM (#11601242)

I'm sick of both Chrome and Firefox, honestly.

I like Chrome's UI a lot so I don't mind Firefox becoming that. However, god damn it I just want a good browser. One I don't have to restart on a regular basis. One that doesn't become sluggish after a day of usage, or 20 tabs open.

Firefox right now is an overall sub-par experience. Of the two, it's the only one that I've seen actually crash (Chrome has individual tab crashes). The scrollbars aren't stylable and it is a lot slower.

And then Chrome has its own issues as well. Its "Restore tabs" dialog is too easy to click away (firefox's is a lot better) and it just loses the tabs. Not to mention when there's a lot of tabs to restore, it loads everything at once instead of doing lazy loading like Firefox. And Chrome still doesn't have autoscroll... I use an extension for it, but it can't touch the chrome:// pages...

These are all extremely long standing issues, it's incredible they haven't been fixed. Fat good that competition between Mozilla and Google is doing.

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Re:WebExtensions in Firefox 48 by derefr on Saturday April 30, 2016 @04:32AM (#11600927)

Does there need to be a difference? Having two independent "rival" implementations of every feature is useful for the health of the web development ecosystem. The two apps could just be completely interchangeable from a user's perspective—a single site giving users one or the other for download at random—and that would still be true.

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Re:WebExtensions in Firefox 48 by malka on Saturday April 30, 2016 @05:51AM (#11601095)

This. If tomorrow Google goes truly crazy with the tracking in chrome, this lower the cost of switching for the end user

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Re:WebExtensions in Firefox 48 by nathancahill on Saturday April 30, 2016 @12:32AM (#11600373)

Privacy is a big reason I'm still using Firefox over Chrome.

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