Re:Ask HN: What's stopping you from using Firefox as your pr...
by mgreenly on Wednesday January 25, 2017 @04:54PM
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Before I can choose to use it I have to install it and that's significantly less convenient than it is with Chrome.
If I go to Chrome's download page it offers up a 64 bit .deb file. Perfect and I happen to know it keeps it's self up to date.
If I go to Firefox's download page it offers up *.tar.bz2 file. I have no idea if that file is a source package that needs to be built or a binary blob for what architecture?
So, since I'm too lazy to dig deeper Firefox lost out before I even tried it.
If I go to Chrome's download page it offers up a 64 bit .deb file. Perfect and I happen to know it keeps it's self up to date.
If I go to Firefox's download page it offers up *.tar.bz2 file. I have no idea if that file is a source package that needs to be built or a binary blob for what architecture?
So, since I'm too lazy to dig deeper Firefox lost out before I even tried it.