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iSwitched to Firefox!

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For a start, I don't mean you @FireFox ;)

 

So, I've been a fanboy of chrome since 2010-2011, and always scoffed at the idea of using Firefox. It never really took my fancy so to speak. But, after seeing all of the Firefox users on this forum, I gave it a shot.

 

 

 

 

Thank God I did. Its design is beautiful, sleek and original and its amount of GOOD and actually well functioning plugins was a nice change from Chrome's plugins. They never really did it for me.

 

So, should you give it a try? HELL YES. Even small things like download lists are well implemented into the browser, and is a nice change to the browser we all know and most love.

 

Which plugins have I acquired? Well, so far I picked up AdBlock Plus (I don't watch YouTube videos on my laptop, so stop trying to stop me from using it) and an AMAZING plugin entitled "The Fox, Only Better" which makes the experience with Firefox a lot cleaner feeling. It minimises the address and bookmark bar when you're not using it, exposing only the top menu and the tabs bar. This works very well, even on my crappy laptop (specs in sig).

 

So, I'd rate Firefox a 10/10 for its uniqueness, yet familiarness and its beautiful all round feel, which makes it a brilliant and welcome change from Chrome. This will now be my everyday browser.

 

 

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I LOVE firefox, but it's so easy to login to your google account on ANY pc and have all your bookmarks and everything you need right there, it really is the only reason i use Chrome, oh, and also managing tabs, i'm so used to chrome, i'd have to get used to firefox again :P (talking about dragging one tab from one screen to the other between 2 different windows) 

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I would have switched long ago if it actually worked correctly for me. 

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For a start, I don't mean you @FireFox ;)

 

So, I've been a fanboy of chrome since 2010-2011, and always scoffed at the idea of using Firefox. It never really took my fancy so to speak. But, after seeing all of the Firefox users on this forum, I gave it a shot.

 

 

 

 

Thank God I did. Its design is beautiful, sleek and original and its amount of GOOD and actually well functioning plugins was a nice change from Chrome's plugins. They never really did it for me.

 

So, should you give it a try? HELL YES. Even small things like download lists are well implemented into the browser, and is a nice change to the browser we all know and most love.

 

Which plugins have I acquired? Well, so far I picked up AdBlock Plus (I don't watch YouTube videos on my laptop, so stop trying to stop me from using it) and an AMAZING plugin entitled "The Fox, Only Better" which makes the experience with Firefox a lot cleaner feeling. It minimises the address and bookmark bar when you're not using it, exposing only the top menu and the tabs bar. This works very well, even on my crappy laptop (specs in sig).

 

So, I'd rate Firefox a 10/10 for its uniqueness, yet familiarness and its beautiful all round feel, which makes it a brilliant and welcome change from Chrome. This will now be my everyday browser.

 

 

Thanks for reading this review :D

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Welcome to the best browser in the world.

 

inb4 hate

I havn't used anything but Firefox in so many years.... and I also don't get the hate.. it performs VISUALLY (meaning I don't notice any diff) the same to me as it did years ago...

So what gives?

 

 

Besides IE.. for those 5s it's in use so I can Ninite DL Firefox.

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I've been using both on and off because I use my laptop daily and the all mighty dual core APU can't handle chrome.

I'd say I like both equally. Though the download bar of chrome can go to hell and the scrolling in waterfox can also go.

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I havn't used anything but Firefox in so many years....

Besides IE - so I can Ninite DL Firefox.

 

I also use Opera for sites that won't work with cookies blocked on FF.

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I've been using both on and off because I use my laptop daily and the all mighty dual core APU can't handle chrome.

I'd say I like both equally. Though the download bar of chrome can go to hell and the scrolling in waterfox can also go.

I love the download organisation in Firefox. It's why I've taken to it :P

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I would have switched long ago if it actually worked correctly for me. 

Dat sneaky switch between "880 information" and "980 information" :P Just noticed that lol

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Welcome to the best browser in the world.

 

inb4 hate

too many issues with gifs on the forums for me, so that's why I don't use it, that and less issues with youtube for me.

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I would recommend Adblock Egde over addblock plus

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I like firefox as well 

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I am so used to chrome. It has all my bookmarks, and it so easy to log in to Gmail and other services. EDIT: I mean on other PC's. All my bookmarks just follow me to the PC I log onto.

I don't see the point, I am far too used to chrome to benefit from any possible improvements.

 

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They're not as different, visually, as they used to be, Firefox and Chrome. I switched from Chromium to Firefox a few years back because it was closer to the native look and feel of my Linux system, whereas Chrome uses its own hardcoded style. Also it just plain works. Not sure how the situation is on Linux but it's been a very reliable browser for me. Shame it doesn't fully support HTML5 HD video playback in YouTube though. As soon as that gets implemented I can ditch Flash. Mostly.

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I switched to Chrome like 3-4 years ago as I was having a problem with Firefox, but can't remember what.

 

Now I've got an android phone and having a shared browser history and the ability to pull up tabs of my PC/Phone is so helpful.

If there was some way to maintain that functionality, I'd probably try swapping over, Chrome is such a memory hog.

 

I do have a portable version of Firefox, just for certain plugins really.

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Welcome to the Firefox club(do we have one?)

I'd definitly suggest to take a look at the top add-ons you can install in Firefox, especially AdBlock.

They make browsing so much more pleasant.

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Welcome to the light side.

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yay

 

You people have weird bookmarks.

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Its a known fact that more intelligent people use Firefox.

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I was using FireFox at first then switched on/off to Chrome finally came back to FireFox after Chrome started using like 2-3 gigs of ram...

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the reason I switched from chrome to firefoxw as the terrible firefox 4 version.

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i have used chrome since day one, when it was on beta and youtube didn't even work on it, and when sites tried to put all the fucking tool bars on IE and FF, seriously thank god chrome made that shit stop, also on you on that time i do agree it was the best browser on the planet, fast and responsive, but now is just a mess, after the ram problem it does have a few issues to, its not longer the faster, which was the main reason i switched to it,

 

i switched to firefox last month and i couldn't be happier, but i'm not using the vanilla version, if you are on a 64bit PC, then waterfox is a much better option its the same thing just recompiled to 64bit, no changes where made to the source code at all, just a few that fixes the issue with memory leaks, but is the same and all extensions work on it, and flash, java and silverlight work on 64bit with it, which is better,

 

my only problem with firefox is that youtube sucks on it, half the times the video lags and for some bloody reason the good youtube extensions are only in chromium browsers, which is why i have to rely on opera for it

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