What’s up with Firefox?

Re:What’s up with Firefox? by ZenoArrow on Wednesday January 25, 2017 @02:23PM (#13484984)

Agreed. I prefer Firefox, but I recognise there's really not that much difference between Firefox and Chrome in terms of usability and features, they both seem about on par to me (some areas Firefox is slightly ahead, some areas Chrome is slightly ahead). The suggestion that Firefox is something "time forgot" is basically just trolling, someone looking for a reaction rather than something substantial.

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Re:What’s up with Firefox? by komali2 on Wednesday January 25, 2017 @03:04PM (#13485461)

The numbers don't back either of your claims, though - significantly more people use Safari and Chrome than use Firefox. I for one appreciate chrome for the fact that it syncs with my google everything, across all devices, google accounts, etc.

I'm probably going to hate myself for my blase attitude towards security when I inevitably end up on some massive dump of hacked accounts, but I've kind of given up on privacy/security. It's just so convenient to be able to pull up on my phone the tab I had open on my browser when I'm in the kitchen cooking, or whatever.

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Re:What’s up with Firefox? by ZenoArrow on Wednesday January 25, 2017 @03:11PM (#13485524)

>"The numbers don't back either of your claims, though - significantly more people use Safari and Chrome than use Firefox."

The reason we're in disagreement is we're picking different forms of comparison. You're looking at popularity, I'm looking at technology. I don't dispute more people use Chrome, but that doesn't make it automatically better from a technical point of view. As I said before, technically Firefox and Chrome are fairly equal, and there are benchmarks and feature comparisons that back this up.

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Re:What’s up with Firefox? by rebelwebmaster on Wednesday January 25, 2017 @06:46PM (#13487361)

"It's just so convenient to be able to pull up on my phone the tab I had open on my browser when I'm in the kitchen cooking, or whatever."

FWIW, Firefox supports syncing tabs between devices as well.

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Re:What’s up with Firefox? by icc97 on Wednesday January 25, 2017 @08:56PM (#13488092)

The firefox syncing is awesome. FF syncing feels friendly and the Chrome feels like a stranger being 'overly' friendly.

Somehow I'm willing to sell most of the rest of my soul, but not my browsing history.

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Re:What’s up with Firefox? by funnyfacts365 on Wednesday January 25, 2017 @08:35PM (#13488005)

Yes it does. My 2 laptops and 2 Android phones all use the dame profile. Everything syncs, tabs, passwords, addons...

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Re:What’s up with Firefox? by myowncrapulence on Wednesday January 25, 2017 @05:21PM (#13486804)

  for the fact that it syncs with my google everything, across all devices, google accounts, etc.

Shudders My god that's the last thing I'd ever want and exactly why I avoid Chrome and Android devices.

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Re:What’s up with Firefox? by vacri on Wednesday January 25, 2017 @11:50PM (#13488840)

> significantly more people use Safari and Chrome than use Firefox

This is true. Significantly more people use "Safari and Chrome" than "Firefox". However, significantly less people use "Safari" than "Firefox". Chrome is the gorilla, Safari is waaaaaaay back in the pack.

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Re:What’s up with Firefox? by bzbarsky on Thursday January 26, 2017 @01:33AM (#13489202)

It depends on whether you count "desktop" market share, "mobile" market share, or "both" (and if "both" how you weight it).

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