Ask HN: How can we help Firefox not to dissapear?

Re:Ask HN: How can we help Firefox not to dissapear? by bogwog on Tuesday October 31, 2023 @10:05AM (#38085009)

I agree, although I suspect most people nowadays interact with Firefox for the first time via the mobile app rather than the desktop. The difference between FF mobile and Chrome is pretty noticeable. Overall usability is worse, if not also performance.

If you're using Chrome on mobile, and the differences between the desktop versions are negligible, why would you not just stick to Chrome on desktop as well?

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Re:Ask HN: How can we help Firefox not to dissapear? by freedomben on Tuesday October 31, 2023 @10:33AM (#38085475)

Chrome v Firefox on mobile (android at least) is pretty noticeable, but in a good way IMHO. Firefox on mobile supporting extensions makes it 10x better out of the gate, but there are also little thought-through things like not having the horrendous "pull down from top to refresh" which 9 out of 10 times I trigger is an accident and not at all what I wanted.

I think this is actually a good example of where Firefox could really make a difference on desktop. Introduce a very powerful extension framework, allowing things like what Chrome is removing in manifest v3. Killer extensions will be built and people will switch for that. For the users who would inevitably install malware extensions, there will always be Chrome. Firefox doesn't need 100% market share, just one big enough that it can't be ignored.

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Re:Ask HN: How can we help Firefox not to dissapear? by ohthatsnotright on Tuesday October 31, 2023 @10:13AM (#38085145)

I couldn't survive without uBlock on Firefox mobile. The web is just that hostile and awful.

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