<story><title>uBlock Origin Maintainer on Chrome vs. Firefox WebExtensions</title><url>https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/support-ublock-origin/6746/451</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bad_user</author><text>After being a Chrome user for several years, I&amp;#x27;ve switched back to Firefox for the past two years or so and I&amp;#x27;m really, really happy with it.&lt;p&gt;Latest version does multi-processing, e10s is finally here (though it might still get disabled by usage of certain add-ons, I remember I had to force it to stay enabled).&lt;p&gt;On performance, in the past it felt sluggish, but now Firefox is fast and for my usage patterns it uses less memory than Chrome.&lt;p&gt;And one thing I really love is the Awesome Bar, which is a pain point every single time I open Chrome. I have a lot of websites I need to return to and in Chrome I end up searching on Google far more than I should. I guess that&amp;#x27;s the biggest difference between Firefox and Chrome, as Mozilla does not feel obligated to shareholders to extract ads clicks from you (although I hope that whatever they do keeps them afloat).&lt;p&gt;Also, tab management. I installed &amp;quot;Tab Center&amp;quot; from the Test Pilot and it&amp;#x27;s awesome. The experiment is now over unfortunately and the code itself for Tab Center isn&amp;#x27;t compatible with WebExtensions, but there&amp;#x27;s work going on to port it and that highlights that Firefox&amp;#x27;s WebExtensions will be more flexible than Chrome, if they aren&amp;#x27;t already.&lt;p&gt;But in the end I actually care more about trusting my browser and its maker to protect my interests. I actually trust Google more than I trust other companies, but something feels very wrong for a company to have so much leverage on me. Which is why, as long as I have a choice, I&amp;#x27;ll always prefer Firefox over Chrome, or Safari, or Edge.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>exDM69</author><text>To me, the best feature of Firefox compared to Chromium (both out of the box, no extensions. not sure if there are extensions that could help) is the address bar. Firefox does a fuzzy search into your browsing history and if you visit the same sites often, the suggestions are quite good.&lt;p&gt;Contrast this with Chrome, where the idea behind address bar user experience seems to be maximizing the number of Google searches done.&lt;p&gt;But the one that really keeps me on Firefox is Vimperator. It&amp;#x27;s the best keyboard oriented browser UI in mainstream browsers. The extensions available for Chrome are nowhere near as good (last time I tried).&lt;p&gt;The worst part of Firefox is the terribly long startup time. It can take up to 10 seconds after a reboot and takes quite a long time even with warm caches. Chromium startup is near instantaneous.</text></comment>
<story><title>uBlock Origin Maintainer on Chrome vs. Firefox WebExtensions</title><url>https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/support-ublock-origin/6746/451</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bad_user</author><text>After being a Chrome user for several years, I&amp;#x27;ve switched back to Firefox for the past two years or so and I&amp;#x27;m really, really happy with it.&lt;p&gt;Latest version does multi-processing, e10s is finally here (though it might still get disabled by usage of certain add-ons, I remember I had to force it to stay enabled).&lt;p&gt;On performance, in the past it felt sluggish, but now Firefox is fast and for my usage patterns it uses less memory than Chrome.&lt;p&gt;And one thing I really love is the Awesome Bar, which is a pain point every single time I open Chrome. I have a lot of websites I need to return to and in Chrome I end up searching on Google far more than I should. I guess that&amp;#x27;s the biggest difference between Firefox and Chrome, as Mozilla does not feel obligated to shareholders to extract ads clicks from you (although I hope that whatever they do keeps them afloat).&lt;p&gt;Also, tab management. I installed &amp;quot;Tab Center&amp;quot; from the Test Pilot and it&amp;#x27;s awesome. The experiment is now over unfortunately and the code itself for Tab Center isn&amp;#x27;t compatible with WebExtensions, but there&amp;#x27;s work going on to port it and that highlights that Firefox&amp;#x27;s WebExtensions will be more flexible than Chrome, if they aren&amp;#x27;t already.&lt;p&gt;But in the end I actually care more about trusting my browser and its maker to protect my interests. I actually trust Google more than I trust other companies, but something feels very wrong for a company to have so much leverage on me. Which is why, as long as I have a choice, I&amp;#x27;ll always prefer Firefox over Chrome, or Safari, or Edge.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Ntrails</author><text>One thing I&amp;#x27;ve been finding lately with firefox is that the Netflix website is abysmally slow.  It lags on loading, goes unresponsive a lot etc etc.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve always watched twitch in Chrome (second browser, other screen, works fine) because firefox used to be bad.  It&amp;#x27;s likely that I will start doing the same with Netflix.</text></comment>