browser wars Inside Mozilla:Firefox fights back against Google Chrome

[captain_to_fire]

4 minutes ago, huilun02 said:

Multi-threaded optimization and built in DNS based firewall and I'll immediately switch to FF as main browser.

We are at the point where its the web content that is slowing down browsing, instead of the browser.

Hopefully they'll add sandboxing too just like Google Chrome.

[dizmo]

I use Firefox on my laptop but I'm not a huge fan. At least a couple times a day I have to force close it because it's for some reason decided it needs all my RAM. Hopefully they've fixed that in this huge overhaul. 

[Jito463]

1 hour ago, huilun02 said:

built in DNS based firewall

Wait...WHAT?  Firewall in your browser?

[captain_to_fire]

3 minutes ago, Jito463 said:

Wait...WHAT?  Firewall in your browser?

He probably meant firewall (like a NAT firewall) built in to smartphones.

[captain_to_fire]

1 hour ago, Taf the Ghost said:

Also, why are they hyping a new release coming in November, now? The articles are clearly paid-media of some form, so even their marketing is off-point in timing. Make the Tech good, THEN do the Ad Campaign. But, well, missing the point is something Mozilla has gotten really good at.

Just like how Microsoft built up hype on Internet Explorer 9 back in 2010 that it was the only browser to leverage GPU-accelerated HTML5 or how Google Chrome was heavily promoted with Hollywood stars.

 

[JoeCoke]

Am I the only one who still uses Firefox? I mean, for about a year back in '14 I used chrome, but then I went back to Firefox. I just love its interface so much more than Chrome's. Plus, I love the customization. With a few tweaks, it even runs just as fast as Chrome in my experience.

[NvidiaIntelAMDLoveTriangle]

3 hours ago, LAwLz said:

That's actually what they are doing. They go into more details in the second half of the post.

Firefox will become faster, less memory intense, get a new look, new addon structure, and a bunch of other stuff.

Maybe they decide to start doing that, but until now they have been doing anything else. They haven't improve performance or adding some good features since version 3.5

[Drak3]

Edge is my main browser on all my Win10, Firefox set as backup.

Chrome is my main on my S8's, out of pure lazyness to install anything else.

Otherwise, everything I have/had uses/used Firefox. Windows 7, Linux, OSX, etc.

[Trik'Stari]

So is this a news article or an actual advertisement?

 

Either way, don't care. I'm fine with Chrome, and for a variety of reasons I will not use Firefox.

[flibberdipper]

I stopped using Firefox back when I stepped up to a Pentium 4 from a P3 and never really looked back. Even when I test out Firefox it just feels a bit derpy compared to Chrome. Though I will say that I miss having the dedicated downloads window. That was nice.

[Princess Luna]

I've been using Firefox all my life and I intend to stay this way.

[Coaxialgamer]

I've been meaning to ditch chrome entirely. Problem is performance just isn't there for me. If they can improve that, I'm on. 

[Techicolors]

4 hours ago, ElfenSky said:

While I voted Firefox (on Smartphones), I also use Opera on it. It has a way better layout, with the tabs/menu being on the bottom, allowing for one-handed use. I only recently switched to FF because the account sync was too useful, as well as a few other options.

you can change google chrome so the address bar goes on the bottom

 

http://www.androidpolice.com/2017/03/20/15-tips-tricks-get-chrome-android/

tip #2

[Doobeedoo]

Well great. 

Using Opera and I'm happy with it. I tend to use around 100 tabs and runs well. 

[elfensky]

2 hours ago, Technicolors said:

you can change google chrome so the address bar goes on the bottom

 

http://www.androidpolice.com/2017/03/20/15-tips-tricks-get-chrome-android/

tip #2

TIL. Might use  Chrome more often now...

Still though, too invested in the many Firefox add-ons and plugins

[Bananasplit_00]

i used to use firefox before chrome became a thing, and now im so used to chrome that i dont feel like using anything else if i dont have to, il probably check out what firefox 57 has to offer but i doubt il swap

[Memories4K]

I use Vivaldi (Built on Chromium) and i've been loving it so far; i can't go back to Firefox, i left Firefox in like 2010 and tried to go back in 2012 but it was SO. DAMN. SLOW. and simply didn't display a lot of things properly.

You can't just say things like "Fuck, the capitalist monopoly that is Google Chrome; #SaveTheWeb" If the reason so many users prefer it is the fact it does practically everything they need it to do much better than your product can.

[PlayStation 2]

Honestly, I'm fine with Vivaldi and Edge. Haven't particularly cared for Chrome or Firefox for a while now.

[Morgan Everett]

I tried going back to Firefox a few weeks ago, but it didn't last long. It was just too slow. 

[TimeOmnivore]

The only reason I use Firefox is because of this - https://github.com/XrXr/YoutubeSubscriptionChecker

If Chrome had that add-on, I would switch completely over, since I already use Chrome as my backup whenever something doesn't work on Firefox (such as Twitch).

[ScratchCat]

6 hours ago, dizmo said:

I use Firefox on my laptop but I'm not a huge fan. At least a couple times a day I have to force close it because it's for some reason decided it needs all my RAM. Hopefully they've fixed that in this huge overhaul. 

Strange, I've hardly ever had Firefox crash on me , and that was only when I was doing stupid things such as downloading 50000 files at once using an extension. Most likely it is a rogue website with a memory leak.

 

This is great news for all those A53 android phones. Using project Quantum they could perform much better by utilising the multicore rendering or offloading to the GPU.

 

Futhermore keeping multiple cores at a lower frequency might be more efficient than one or two high performance cores at a higher frequency.

[dizmo]

22 minutes ago, ScratchCat said:

Strange, I've hardly ever had Firefox crash on me , and that was only when I was doing stupid things such as downloading 50000 files at once using an extension. Most likely it is a rogue website with a memory leak.

That would mean I was always on the same site though, would it not?

[Snadzies]

I switch back and forth between Chrome and Firefox. Heck I often have both running at the same time.

 

I used Firefox as my main browser for a long time till either and update on Firefox's end or a few websites end cause some issues for a while so I switched to Chrome.

I've gone back and forth like that a few times where some sites will get borked by some update or what not and I'll switch browsers and everything is fine.

[Qub3d]

9 hours ago, manikyath said:

makes me wonder tho.. will they manage to make me dislike the look even more, and will they brick all current addons?

I can't address the look (only to say that themes exist) but as for the add-ons, devs have known this was coming for over two years: https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2015/08/21/the-future-of-developing-firefox-add-ons/. In short, Mozilla has created the WebExtensions API which looks and works very similar to chrome extensions. The plan is to make it easier for devs to port extensions from firefox to chrome, and vice-versa.

 

Yes, this will break older add-ons, and some people aren't happy about the new API. But if your add-on of choice hasn't updated since 2015, chances are it isn't working anyways. 

[iamdarkyoshi]

9 hours ago, manikyath said:

if they do it better than chrome (performance wise) i might switch, might even do some testing on my media center, a celeron J1900 really shows when multithreading is done right

My quad core 7.5w pentium laptop agrees