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Re:Getting snappy – performance optimisations in Firefox 13 by wvenable on Friday May 11, 2012 @03:03PM (#3960766)
Why the switch? I don't imagine there are too many people switching from Chrome to Firefox. I simply can't live without the features I've gotten used to, but if I didn't know any better I'd probably just stick with Chrome.
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Re:Getting snappy – performance optimisations in Firefox 13 by Derbasti on Friday May 11, 2012 @05:41PM (#3961566)
For some reason, my main Chrome installation broke (kept resetting itself every few days). Also, I became fed up with sending all my settings, bookmarks and history to Google.

So I tried Opera. It had a few quirks which ultimately threw me off too much. Hence, Firefox. It does not annoy me (much). That is all I ask from good software.

Also, Firefox syncing is quite amazing.

Divorcing myself from Google is still in progress though, with maps and calendar being the last holdouts.

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Re:Getting snappy – performance optimisations in Firefox 13 by Nick_C on Saturday May 12, 2012 @11:17PM (#3965916)
I switched a few months ago and am pretty happy, once you find the right addons.

The reason I switched was some niggling privacy concerns and then discovering that google-chrome won't allow Ghostery to block doubleclick.

Firefox with:

  adblock-plus, 
  ghostery, 
  noscript, 
  requestpolicy, 
  refcontrol and 
  cookiemonster
addresses all the privacy concerns. Then:

  add to searchbar,
  customizable shortcuts,
  duplicate in tab context menu,
  firegestures,
  open link in ..., and 
  sessionmanager
give me pretty much the same UX as I had in google-chrome.
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