Firefox Is as Fast as Chrome Now, and No One Cares

Re:Firefox Is as Fast as Chrome Now, and No One Cares by bllguo on Thursday December 07, 2017 @07:41PM (#15875739)

Well you have to be better than Chrome, otherwise why switch? I am a diehard Firefox user, but if all you care for is speed then there is no reason to switch until Firefox surpasses Chrome. There are transition costs.

For me one killer feature Firefox has is container tabs.

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Re:Firefox Is as Fast as Chrome Now, and No One Cares by 27182818284 on Thursday December 07, 2017 @10:55PM (#15876552)

>Well you have to be better than Chrome, otherwise why switch?

This is such a killer point I wish I could give you ten upvotes. I tried the new Firefox, was immediately impressed by its speed, Tweeted about it and thanked them, and then I continued using Chrome.

Makes sense why Microsoft was hit with IE anti-trust issues. Inertia exists in software.

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Re:Firefox Is as Fast as Chrome Now, and No One Cares by dingo_bat on Thursday December 07, 2017 @07:51PM (#15875808)

For people to switch en mass, Firefox's features and speed will not help. People have to start feeling problems with Chrome.

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Re:Firefox Is as Fast as Chrome Now, and No One Cares by gozur88 on Friday December 08, 2017 @12:48AM (#15876932)

True. I switched from Firefox to Chrome when Firefox stopped working. Literally - it would freeze and make me reboot my PC. Not gonna switch back as long as Chrome works.

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Re:Firefox Is as Fast as Chrome Now, and No One Cares by kaushalmodi on Friday December 08, 2017 @01:13AM (#15877017)

Ever hit Ctrl+S on sites like Gmail or Inbox on Chrome?

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Re:Firefox Is as Fast as Chrome Now, and No One Cares by dingo_bat on Friday December 08, 2017 @07:37AM (#15878264)

No. What's that supposed to do?

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Re:Firefox Is as Fast as Chrome Now, and No One Cares by kaushalmodi on Friday December 08, 2017 @08:04AM (#15878374)

Try it :) For me, Ctrl+S on Chrome on most sites hangs up the browser for few seconds, even into minutes before it shows the File Save popup. And most of the times, I do Ctrl+S by mistake out of habit has that binding is for searching in Emacs.

Not sure why Chrome takes minutes to present the File Save popup, but that action is instant on Firefox.

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Re:Firefox Is as Fast as Chrome Now, and No One Cares by explainplease on Sunday December 17, 2017 @07:14AM (#15945450)

The same thing happens to me! I always thought it was just Qt/KDE being slow for some reason, but maybe it is Chrome!

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Re:Firefox Is as Fast as Chrome Now, and No One Cares by XtalJ on Thursday December 07, 2017 @08:18PM (#15875936)

Yes, the container tabs are really nice if you want to make tracking harder for advertisers, LinkedIn etc.

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Re:Firefox Is as Fast as Chrome Now, and No One Cares by Terr_ on Thursday December 07, 2017 @08:37PM (#15876025)

I'm eagerly waiting the ability to associate a bookmark with a given container, especially when opening multiple bookmarks at once. Apparently it'll arrive in v59.

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