Linus and Firefox

[vishy92]

2 hours ago, floofer said:

The episode was written by Riley, so it’s not from a well-informed perspective 

Damn. Roasted

[Ashley MLP Fangirl]

i think it's because of the marketshare firefox has, the epic extention flop recently and because it's now seen as kind of a bloated slow browser by many including me. 

[Blademaster91]

8 hours ago, firelighter487 said:

i think it's because of the marketshare firefox has, the epic extention flop recently and because it's now seen as kind of a bloated slow browser by many including me. 

The extensions breaking certainly didn't help Firefox although it was fixed quickly, not sue how its bloated or slow compared to chrome as chrome uses much more ram. I've tried switching to chrome and didn't really notice a difference in speed.

[Princess Luna]

I use Firefox, I use it so much all my systems do not have Chrome installed at all to begin with.

 

I really like Firefox and while it does it for me I won't drop it.

 

I don't care if whoever dislikes it, nitpicking people for their browser preference is even dumber than getting into a fight during a sports match with the rival fans.

[2FA]

Only thing Chrome has anymore worthwhile is Chrome Remote Desktop. FF and Chrome are fairly indistinguishable feature and speed wise at the moment on modern PCs.

[RejZoR]

On 5/21/2019 at 10:51 PM, Kuvesz said:

A lot of people are still faithful so to speak and it has become a lot better since the Quantum update. (Before that you had to do some real legacy bs)

I'm not really sure when it has gotten "worse" and I've been using it since beta versions of 1.0... So it wasn't the fastest in stupid useless synthetic benchmarks where Chrome reigned supreme. But on real actual webpages Firefox has always been faster. And as browser, it's just better.

[RILEYISMYNAME]

Firefox is great. Made a couple jokes at its expense, because it's pretty much always been the "other" browser, even though it's reliable, feature-rich, and getting faster all the time. Not to mention it's run by people who actually seem to care about the web and open-source. 

 

I actually have been seriously considering switching to it, just to give Google one less thing. 

 

Anyways luv ya

[imreloadin]

14 minutes ago, RILEYISMYNAME said:

Firefox is great. Made a couple jokes at its expense, because it's pretty much always been the "other" browser, even though it's reliable, feature-rich, and getting faster all the time. Not to mention it's run by people who actually seem to care about the web and open-source. 

 

I actually have been seriously considering switching to it, just to give Google one less thing. 

 

Anyways luv ya

 

[Noctus]

Firefox used to be the shit (back when it was IE and FF as the big daddy browser's) then it's slowly got a bit shit, yet still better than IE. During this chrome appeared out of nowhere and looked slicker/did things better/smoother/more than it. And for me it's never really recovered. Plus now my Google account is so convenient across platforms that I don't think I'll ever switch back. Chrome ftw. 

[The King of the Undead]

my problem is to many extensions do not want to download on my pc I am thinking this is because of linux though 

[Zodiark1593]

FireFox remains my primary browser of choice on my x86 machines, with the exception of a small period of time where it was a slow, bloated mess a few years ago. Currently, it runs quite nicely, even on my Atom machines (including the one with 2 GB of RAM).

 

On Android however, for some reason, it runs quite slow and scrolling runs at a consistently lower framerate than Chromium-based Samsung Browser. Whether it's the software itself, or the oddball cpu architecture within the Snapdragon 821, it just does not feel good to read and scroll through, and battery life takes a notable hit as well. Which is a massive shame as I really love the UI far more so than anything Chromium-based. But, as I tend to read and scroll simultaneously (I'm a fast reader, and even a 5" device is quite small to keep up with me), smooth, consistent scrolling is very important (to myself) for a reasonable experience, and of all the browsers I've tried (I've tried a very many), the Samsung Browser runs the best for my particular device/config.

[Bouzoo]

2 minutes ago, Zodiark1593 said:

FireFox remains my primary browser of choice on my x86 machines, with the exception of a small period of time where it was a slow, bloated mess a few years ago. Currently, it runs quite nicely, even on my Atom machines (including the one with 2 GB of RAM).

 

On Android however, for some reason, it runs quite slow and scrolling runs at a consistently lower framerate than Chromium-based Samsung Browser. Whether it's the software itself, or the oddball cpu architecture within the Snapdragon 821, it just does not feel good to read and scroll through, and battery life takes a notable hit as well. Which is a massive shame as I really love the UI far more so than anything Chromium-based. But, as I tend to read and scroll simultaneously (I'm a fast reader, and even a 5" device is quite small to keep up with me), smooth, consistent scrolling is very important (to myself) for a reasonable experience, and of all the browsers I've tried (I've tried a very many), the Samsung Browser runs the best for my particular device/config.

I used Samsung Browser, it was great, after that I've tried Kiwi which was less good but still pretty darn good and now I'm on Firefox on android as well. I agree, it's slower on my SD 835, but ever since I decided to ditch Chrome I've been looking for an alternative or both desktop and mobile and I've decided to try one solution. There are apparently some multiprocessing config limitations that I've to try yet. What annoys me is that for some Chrome normal functions I have to use add-ons on Firefox and It can get annoying and slows the page loading.

[Virus__]

On 5/31/2019 at 9:46 AM, RILEYISMYNAME said:

Firefox is great. Made a couple jokes at its expense, because it's pretty much always been the "other" browser, even though it's reliable, feature-rich, and getting faster all the time. Not to mention it's run by people who actually seem to care about the web and open-source. 

 

I actually have been seriously considering switching to it, just to give Google one less thing. 

 

Anyways luv ya

You should. Firefox is great. I've pretty much been using it where I can since 2004. Most recently having it on iOS is great. Plus it's got some good extensions, like one that stops Facebook tracking you across the internet via the like button & comment box plugins sites use.

 

I still use Chrome where I have to be logged into other things like my work account for Google+ etc. Which is a Gmail back end anyway. But I find Firefox still works the better out of both on both my Windows machines, my Mac & iPhone.

[MrJrCookie]

On 5/21/2019 at 10:30 PM, Kuvesz said:

Hi all!

 

First post here, registered because I was curious why Linus hates (has a dismissive attitude to be correct) Firefox so much? I mean do you guys think he actually used any Firefox version since 3.5 or something? I feel that since Quantum Firefox is an up to date viable browser and basically the last major one that uses Gecko and not WebKit or Blink (which is a fork of WebKit and is used by google).

I would really love to see a video from LTT actually trying out all major browsers on desktop and mobile (well the actually good Firefox (Preview) for Android is still in very early beta but still) and actually taking a good look at what they can do and what they stand for (Like the pretty good privacy aspects of Firefox). This new Edge video was a good start I think, now it just needs to be made into a series. What do you guys think?

He does not hate firefox, he never said anything like that. He does not use it because it's unstabe (atleast for hem, not me).