Do you think IE6 was bad? Remember how long it took to get rid of it? Imagine a world where the monopoly leader doesn't just walk away from the browser (which is what MS did with IE6) but actively abuses the situation. It will be orders of magnitude worse. Say hi to amp. Say hi to chrome. Say hi to google. Say goodbye to the web.
I suspect a lot of people in this conversation are not old enough to remember, even if they wanted to.
Maybe universities should have an obligation to promote nonprofit tools (i.e. Firefox) rather than shady commercial software that only happens to be gratis.
Now… well, IE11 doesn't even support ES6 properly, and good sites have started relying on that, and Edge is just evil Chrome – unless it's got Firefox installed, Chrome's your only option. But sites that use Chrome-only APIs aren't worth using anyway.
(Oh, wait, Zoom needs either Chrome or a malwarey desktop program.)
And there are alternatives to Zoom, e.g. Jitsi.
...and the malwarey desktop program is also Chrome.
I also don't understand why everyone is up with pitchforks at Google on this when Apple did the same thing to URLs a while ago. I guess engineers are just as susceptible to groupthink as anyone else.
They do kind of do that. Rather than going through the consensus process for getting a web standard added, they implement it in chrome then unilaterally write a standard for themselves. See for example, the SGX (signed exchange) "standard" they pushed out.
I think this feature is important enough for me to consider switching this time.
That being said, I admit that staright out of the box Firefox doesn't have the same experience but you can customize every little thing about it to make it suit your needs.
This said, I honestly don’t understand what people mean when they say the experience is “superior” in Chrome. It’s a web browser. It browses. You get passwords saved and synchronised. Everything else is an extension. What’s so bad about FF...?
It also felt noticeably slower at the time.
Finally, with Chrome's market share, good extensions that Just Work are more common there, in my experience. I use a whole host of plugins on desktop, and when I looked at switching back to FF last year, I did not find equivalents for everything.
I did go back to FF on mobile, because I do remember the nightmare of IE 6 and want to protect the web from total Google control. On mobile, I miss the dev tools and array of extensions less.
I just could not live without firefox and being unable to share tabs/links from anywhere in my phone to my desktop and or laptop
I hate the hell out of that. My phone is my phone, my laptop is my laptop, just leave them alone.
As for bookmark, firefox should be able to import chrome bookmark. It can even import saved passwords and cookies so your active session is preserved.