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Re:Firefox Quantum Lands in Beta, Developer Edition by snaky on Tuesday September 26, 2017 @11:38AM (#15339590)
Are you kidding? It's like "Blackberry is better than iPhone once again, finally losing the keyboard".

The main and only distinctive feature of Firefox was programmability (XUL, XPCOM), and now it's gone. There are forks like PaleMoon and Waterfox though but for how long.

Firefox had to take that app-platform niche (thanks to XUL, XPCOM) that now occupies Electron, but failed on that chasing after Chrome.

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Re:Firefox Quantum Lands in Beta, Developer Edition by minitech on Tuesday September 26, 2017 @01:51PM (#15340994)
No, it’s not like that at all. Firefox’s performance, memory usage, and UI all far outstrip Chrome’s in my browsing now; I don’t see any reason to use Chrome apart from the usual cross-browser testing, and it’s been that way for a year (?) now.

(And Firefox “forks” have always been a very good way to be behind on security patches to no benefit.)

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