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Re:Save Firefox by developer2 on Thursday May 12, 2016 @05:44AM (#11682337)
Similar boat here. I abandoned Firefox back in the day due to the memory and freezing problems, and general lack of responsiveness compared to Chrome. The difference in everyday use was massive here; we went from having a browser that could hardly handle having 3 tabs open while using a gigabyte of memory, to one that worked flawlessly and used a fraction of the resources. Firefox then put in a lot of effort fixing those issues. By this time though, Chrome's built-in DevTools was more robust for my tastes compared to Firebug or the horrific early versions of their built-in replacement. I had a good development setup, all the addons I needed, and a fast browser. I simply had little reason to switch back.

I did spend a brief period swapping back to Firefox for the sake of perceived privacy, but then they started bundling all sorts of third party bloatware and it was just too much. I'm not a superfan of the information I imagine Google collects from my using Chrome, but the browser itself is just too good to give up. Firefox now only gets opened to verify cross-browser functionality of frontend UIs I work on, and on rare occasions when I want to use a proxy in a browser without it being used system-wide.

Re:Save Firefox by qwertyuiop924 on Thursday May 12, 2016 @08:39AM (#11682898)
I personally think that firefox got a lot better recently. I've been using ff dev since it launched, and it's been pretty good. And in speed tests, it's started to beat Chrome, although things may have since reversed.

But then, I'm not a web developer

Re:Save Firefox by Grishnakh on Thursday May 12, 2016 @12:07PM (#11684419)
>I'm not a superfan of the information I imagine Google collects from my using Chrome, but the browser itself is just too good to give up.

If you don't want to send information back to Google, don't use Chrome.

Use Chromium instead. It's Chrome, but without the spyware, and only has the open-source components.

It won't work for Netflix though, but for all your other browsing, it should work exactly the same as Chrome. Keep Chrome around for Netflix.

Re:Save Firefox by timlyo on Friday May 13, 2016 @04:17AM (#11689261)
I've got chromium working for Netflix on Linux, haven't tried on windows though.