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Re:I cannot continue working on my add-ons by otabdeveloper on Friday January 27, 2017 @11:38PM (#13504935)
> These days, I'm more likely to suggest Brave over FF, if someone really requires a Chrome alternative.

Brave is just a reskinned Chrome.

> We [web developers] owe a lot to FF, Firebug, etc, but the writings on the wall for mobile and desktop.

Where I work developers have mostly switched to Firefox over the last few years. Firefox is just a better browser (faster, less bloated) under the hood. Yes, Firefox will have a difficult time sine they don't have their own proprietary walled-garden ecosystem as a distribution channel, but the technical product is solid.

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Re:I cannot continue working on my add-ons by thezilch on Saturday January 28, 2017 @03:17AM (#13505467)
Do you mean chromium? And it's much more than a skin, lol.

And it's not the experience for many to have a faster browsing experience, but I'm not going to argue how anyone quantities that -- really don't care what others use.

On desktop, I find the tooling much worse and sluggish. But the thread was about mobile, and there are a vanishing number of users of mobile FF.

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Re:I cannot continue working on my add-ons by BrendanEich on Tuesday January 31, 2017 @04:36PM (#13535487)
> Brave is just a reskinned Chrome.

No, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13534564.

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