Ask HN: What's stopping you from using Firefox as your primary browser?

Re:Ask HN: What's stopping you from using Firefox as your pr... by jacek on Wednesday January 25, 2017 @03:53PM (#13485964)

1) It is significantly slower. That's probably because multiprocess ("e10s") is not enabled (and I don't even know why). 2) Stable version still does not support touch scroll on Linux (only Developer version does). Also do not understand why.

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Re:Ask HN: What's stopping you from using Firefox as your pr... by vanous on Wednesday January 25, 2017 @04:02PM (#13486061)

I use FF as primary. Enabled touch and love it. Debian unstable, FF stable.

Enable e10s

MOZ_USE_XINPUT2=1 firefox

dom.w3c_touch_events.enabled

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Re:Ask HN: What's stopping you from using Firefox as your pr... by jacek on Wednesday January 25, 2017 @06:20PM (#13487218)

I still don't know how to enable e10s. That trick works on Developer version, not stable.

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Re:Ask HN: What's stopping you from using Firefox as your pr... by mythmon_ on Wednesday January 25, 2017 @04:05PM (#13486078)

As for why e10s is not enabled: It is being slowly rolled out to many users, and each new version of Firefox enables it for more users. It is a huge change to the browser, so Mozilla is being very cautious with the transition.

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Re:Ask HN: What's stopping you from using Firefox as your pr... by flavoie on Wednesday January 25, 2017 @04:49PM (#13486545)

touch on Linux is also the reason I keep using chrome

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