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Chrome's UI remains an anathema to me--its strict requirements regarding how one is supposed to organize tabs and so forth are bogwash, and I'll be sticking with Firefox, which allows me to do whatever the fuck I want re UI component placement and usage, with the help of some extensions, until death do us part.

Chrome is the Apple of browsers and it should burn in a fire wrt how it mandates and imposes specific UI patterns on users. Mozilla, for all their "we're trying to make extensions more chromelike" seems to be holding onto that.
I'm actually thinking of switching into video editing career slowly, just as a backup for my current programming profession. The reason is I'm not sure whether I can survive as a competitive programmer in my late 30s and also I think I kind of like editing.
Actually, most of the good things that have happened with the browser have a reference implementation in IE6. Their current "modern" standards were all written after that point.

The stagnant few years after Netscape screwed up Navigator 6 was actually a little mini golden age for web developers. Essentially one target, with a ton of features that are only now being recreated in modern browsers.

It's just a shame that Microsoft was so hated by everybody. Things like their sane Box Model endured 15 years of people referring to it as a "bug" until finally it got introduced as a CSS option and people were overjoyed to finally be able to specify the width of a DIV and have it end up being that size after borders and padding.
Yeah we can only hope that data plans get right-sized so you can't burn through your whole cap in 60 seconds of full-speed downloading.

Although for music in particular we are seeing a lot of "music services are unmetered" types of plans. I remember in Sweden back in the early 3G days (384 kbps of pure speed), the public broadcaster audio streams were unmetered and I would usually listen to those instead of FM since I used Bluetooth headphones.
Is $500M enough to build anything that can be called the 'Fort Knox' of anything?
I actually asked people around me and none of the answer I got is the one you put forward. The most common answer is that they feel they didn't have a choice, they have an android phone because they needed a phone and didn't want to pay the overpriced premium for an apple product and they seem to hate android with a passion. they have a gmail account because they didn't have a choice and had to make one to use their phone and they'd rather use the email they had before getting the phone. They have chrome on their computer because it just popped up one day and replaced their browser (it came bundled with a freeware they installed and set itself as default browser).

When asked about google, they pretty much all knew google was spying and selling ads, which they hate, but all said they felt powerless and didn't what to do.

Totally different from the answers I got from tech aware people who either use google's product and don't care / love google or stay away from google / use them through habit and inertia and feel bad about it.
Firefox was over reliant on plug-ins, gave plug-ins too much power and the plug-in as well as firefox update mechanisms were messy.
Chrome did more out of the box than firefox reducing the need for plug-ins, sandboxed plug-ins from destroying general browser performance and most importantly realised that updating was not a user concern and performed updates silently.
There were also other innovations that Chrome did first that put them ahead of the field (I particularly remember their genius tab closing behaviour).

_That's_ why they "won" not because of fucking adverts.
Is there ANY multi channel client? I tell you: no! And it can't really be because Apple specifically limits AirPlay output to one single destination. It's because wifi sucks and as it is and it just can't work on multi channel(things will get out of sync, some channels will buffer while others will play etc). If you read the avb specs you will underatand why. Wifi needs hw changes.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audio_Video_Bridging
Can it be said that your bias is purely based on the familiarity?

Yes, Firefox has multiple profiles.

Putting "all your eggs in one basket" in security context is suspicious. For SSH, Putty is a small program compared to the whole Chrome, security-wise much easier to evaluate. I don't know how using Chrome for SSH can be rationalized. Who is behind of that "Secure Shell" plugin ("offered by chrome-secure-shell-publishers")?
> Why should I use Firefox, or any other browser, from a standard consumer prospective?

Because your techie friends tell you to. This moved people off of IE6 to Firefox and this is what initially got people to move to Chrome from Firefox. Google's muscle on its web properties did the rest. Even you admit that Chrome is only marginally better on all benchmarks. For me, it's worth it to help your non-technical friends keep the web a bit more open by making them wait 0.1s (or however much longer) to open Facebook.
You can always consider using Chromium if you want "the best of both worlds". You'd protect your students' privacy, which for them can be a valuable lesson. Furthermore you can introduce them in that way to another OSS project, which might spark their interest in OSS.

All without losing the convenience that you talk about.
I would really like to support Mozilla again, but they have had an unreasonable amount of exploits recently, add to this the fact that support for my most beloved tools are gone (Firebug & TamperData) I really see no other point in sticking with FF than a political or ideological agenda.
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I've recently forced myself to switch back to Firefox after 2 years of Chrome, but honestly the performances even on high end machines aren't on par with Chrome, it all feels a bit more sluggish and slower.

And I'm having a lot of issues with html5 video playback especially on prime video.

I'm hoping that Electrolysis will improve the general performance at least.
I recently switched back to Firefox after years of using Chrome. Previously, the few times I had to fire up Firefox for development purposes it seemed sluggish to me. Not anymore.

Firefox has been super responsive to me, using less memory than the same browsing activity would on Chrome & Firefox-only (afaik) add-ons like Self Destructing Cookies are A+. On Android, Firefox Mobile works just as good or better than Chrome.

From a developer standpoint, Mozilla's recent work on the Web Extensions API (which is an almost complete match with Chrome's) is outstanding.
I feel bad for users who have to deal with supposedly-security minded companies who cite weak, historical reasons for not doing the right thing now.

Companies who ignore the actual solutions proposed to them, and instead attack a straw-man. Claiming they're being asked to make backwards incompatible changes for all existing users, instead of providing an an opt-in alternative for users who actually care about their security.

Companies whose culture is so inept that they blindly commit the most basic of engineering fallacies: Rejecting solutions on the basis of minor flaws, while defending a incumbent solution with massive flaws, simply because it is incumbent.
Damn I hadn't heard about that problem with the Quark. What I had heard was that it was notoriously difficult to get a hold of low level docs so that you could do anything serious with it (or was that the Curie or Edison?), which put me off trying their line up because all of the ARM Cortex stuff is pretty much open compared to them (CMSIS makes a lot of peripherals trivial to deal with compared to some of the mess that used to exist for ARM).
Can I ask something? For me Firefox IS better. Chrome on Android doesnt seem to support extensions (so no uBlock), doesn't have reader view, and would highly prefer it if I signed in. Orfox and Firefox both do not have these issues.

Even on desktop, I prefer Firefox (although mostly due to higher familiarity with it). Does Chrome really have some killer feature that I'm not seeing? I can't seem to figure out where exactly Firefox lacks.
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In Japan it's $600. I wonder if there's any region checking...
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Choosing linux at the time when you had to compile drivers, apply patches before you could get a monitor properly running was also not very user "standard" from a consumer perspective. But that spirit of trying out a piece of software that gives your more freedom, or allows a more open ecosystem to thrive is and will always be a good reason.

Browsers and mobile OSes are two places where I think even we as developers have accepted the closed and encumbered ecosystem as the status quo because the alternatives are not user friendly.
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No, there needs to be a article on -Wall -Wextra and -Werror being harmful, these are metaflags that:

1. Vary between compiler versions.

2. Vary between compiler implementations.

3. Often contain somewhat useless warnings (Wparentheses) that can change with changes in 1. or 2.
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Can FB really be compared to these diseases though? Maybe I'm nitpicking the details here but a lot of diseases, including bubonic plague mentioned in the article, kill a large proportion of their hosts.
The only effective monetization strategy I've seen for a browser is search. So Google is in a very strong position to make money on Chrome. The problem that Firefox has is that there is no real competition for search anymore. That limits their ability to monetize and their ability to invest in the browser.
You're the perfect personification of how the internet was meant to be used. Your kind of website is always my favorite.

None of my favorite websites update very frequently, but I still check them all regularly. In aggregate, theres always fresh content, and it's better content because the author actually wanted to write about it.

Thumbs up man!
> Unlike Apple and Microsoft, Mozilla is totally committed to the standards-based Web platform as a long-term strategy against lock-in.

This may sound great in theory, but I have serious doubts that Mozilla can deliver on that. At least from my perspective, their decisions in the more recent past have been erratic at best. They even happily implemented DRM when everyone else was doing it. At the moment it feels like Firefox is just copying what everyone else is doing, slightly worse.

And even if Chrome "wins", it's still open source, for the most part. If Google abuses their power, then the thing will be forked and their hole user base will be split. I'm pretty sure Google doesn't want that.

If you want to worry about something, worry about Google controlling Android. They already implemented lock-in there, it's a huge pain to fork in any reasonable way (see CynogenMod) and they control > 85% of the market. But sadly, Mozilla failed here quite spectacularly, because they simply didn't have the resources for it.
I'd suggest creating a new profile in Firefox and checking it again. I use Firefox with tons of tabs and don't notice any lag in tab switching. I also don't have multiprocess enabled automatically (when I tried it about a year ago or so it was slower, but it has improved quite a bit in my reading).
I think your answer is in the title. I'm not sure how concrete you want to go in terms of answers?

The reason you should is mostly constituted from all the things your browser does that you don't know about.

I get that's a hard sell.

Firefox is (currently) measurably much less binary exploit secure than Chrome, but it is the browser with a development community thats trying hard not to sell you out.
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I would but for some reason the UI thread for Firefox stutters every couple of minutes for a few seconds. No idea why, I'm not using any addons. I keep trying every 4 months, always the same result on my macbook air and imac.
I'd become your friend if your browser became open source.
I agree with you, but that is the new standard. The NHTSA used to have a much stricter definition, but have since adapted the SAE standards.
It's been a while since there's no significant performance difference between the biggest web browsers. I'm curious about the websites you care about, would they be tied to google in any way ?
>Specifically, the day job shouldn't be too enjoyable if you're making money from it. Once it is, you should start doing it for free and find a job you find less enjoyable.

More specifically, market forces dictate that if a job is all sparkles and lollipops, you don't need to pay people to do it, because they'll do it for free in their spare time. Thus, every job has downsides.
True, though even "totally-by-the-book", Islam allows the consumption of alcohol for non-Muslims. This is why alcohol is usually available at hotels, even in Saudi Arabia.
Wish this issue hadn't been closed. Signal for Firefox is a big missing feature:

https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Signal-Desktop/issues/415
And to allow the manufacturer to use a lower-power (and cheaper) processor with half the RAM and less storage.

Software (something like the OSS ntpd at least) is free, parts on a board, physical board size, routing etc. not so much.
sgoraete v mussornom pozhare, ty prescriptivist web developer scum. da, da, my've all heard the philosophers babble about "oneness" being "beautiful" and "holy". But let me tell you that {this} kind of oneness certainly isn't pretty and if you're not careful you*ll will scare the bejeezus out of your an self.
True. But also the pendulum of which is better (Firefox vs Chrome) has swung back and forth a couple of times since Chrome first came out and overtook FF. At this point though most people are just using whichever was best N years ago, and haven't thought to compare recently.
Genuine question from someone not well versed in this topic but interested in learning more, can you give me some examples of what Google is doing that is abusive of their monopoly power, particularly as it relates to Chrome?

I'm aware of some of the issues involving Android licensing/bundling of apps but not well informed on other aspects.
People listened to the real benefits in terms of speed, tabs and UX while moving from IE, not to the rheotric about freedom, OSS etc. Do we have any such reasons now?
I still feel like Chrome being called closed is in pretty bad faith.

Chromium holds almost all of Chrome and is open source. Multiple (!) alternative browsers are based on this.

You could argue against the WebKit monoculture, but that's a different topic. The browser ecosystem has never been this open
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Firefox is my default browser but I have Chrome handy too in case I have to use Google Docs (things like Copy paste don't work properly in Firefox). I find that Firefox is maybe 50% slower than Chrome on initial load, but thereafter, I can't tell the difference. I really cannot see how an extra second or so of load time for a software product that one uses all day every day (ie you probably load it only once), represents a material performance difference. I think Chrome at this point is much more about inertia, and it is entirely reasonable to argue that we need competition and to request for people to use Firefox. Moreover I find Mozilla to be quite credible on its Firefox roadmap; after all, they invented a whole new, advanced, programming language, just for Firefox, and there's a lot of noise coming out of Mozilla on its various strategies IMO (including the logo, for example) which suggests to me that the organization is dynamic and has a strong future. Therefore I'm supporting Mozilla, and it's essentially costing me nothing, while hopefully doing a small bit to prevent a dangerous hegemony from forming.
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Another nice alternative is Opera. It has better battery life and most features from Chrome (dev tools, process viewer...).
Many systems (hell, even my almost ten year old mid-range Sony TV) have options to adjust audio offset. I'm surprised something like a projector or AV Amp wouldn't.
Firefox was superior to IE 6 even back when it was called Phoenix. The user experience was just SO much better.
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This is no longer true as of late 2015. The new definition is "We define a monthly active user as a registered Facebook user who logged in and visited Facebook through our website or a mobile device, or used our Messenger app (and is also a registered Facebook user), in the last 30 days as of the date of measurement."

So if they don't use Facebook's website or app, or Messenger as a Facebook user, they don't count.

http://www.adweek.com/socialtimes/monthly-active-users-defin...
It used to be but the current opera has 0 innovation in it, it even dropped the innovating par the previous opera had to make the switch to being a google chrome clone.

vivaldi is the browser from opera founder which strive to recreate this innovation and more.

As the company refused to open source the old opera, there is an open source project to recreate it: otter[2].

[1]: https://vivaldi.com/
[2]: https://otter-browser.org/
It irks me tremendously when we take this attitude. I think the problem is that developers have no spine or backbone and are used to bending over too easily - largely because of the personalities we tend to be "nice people".

As developers we have a number of failsafes and checks and balances in our processes: code reviews, TDD, unit through to integration testing, audit trails on every byte of code changed etc. To suggest that a wrong hire is "too costly" is ridiculous.

Compare this with a management consultant who is often on client site alone and whose work is heavily based on personality - "the airport test" - any wrong move could end up risking the client relationship with the business.
I think it can start with developers choosing firefox over chrome. Hackers were the first people to try out linux, when it was sub-par, didnt have most drivers. If not for those initial few foragers, we would still be stuck with Windows for most of our computing. Change in this space hardly ever starts because someone made the most consumer friendly, best performing piece of software. Change starts by the way of foragers who become contributors that leads to improved performance.
My circle of Friends and Family contains a few Outlook[0] diehards as well.

I sympathize, as I was an Evolution loyalist for a very long time. It started crashing under the load of multi-GB folders, so I migrated to GMail.

I was considering switching to Thunderbird when they dissolved Mozilla Messaging[1]. Now my G-Suite storage is running up against the free limits, so I will probably be looking at migrating email back to the desktop this year.

[0] No, not Outlook Express (with it's support for NNTP), I mean the version of Outlook that is part of Office.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Messaging
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> * Chrome hasn't embraced the WebExtensions specification (I'd love to be wrong on this).

I'm by no means an expert on this, but aren't WebExtensions based on the chrome extension API? Says pretty much that on the developers page[0] of Mozilla as well.

[0] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Add-ons/WebExtensions
No one could reasonably outcompete Microsoft. Then suddenly nobody even discusses IE anymore. And tons of people use Linux.
Lawyer. With years of building and debugging code I find the logical aspects of the law rather interesting. Though the amount of reading, less so.
Sure, the only problem I see here than some people that work on startups think it's OK to force people to work overtime all the time - and for them it's the norm - where it should be an exception.

I saw it multiple times it even sometimes ends up with lawsuits like @ LinkedIn. I truly believe people can succeed without creating this kind of bad work culture.
> _That's_ why they "won" not because of fucking adverts.

Given that Opera was basically "Chrome without Google marketing" I heavily doubt that. (The first version of Chrome was such a blatant Opera clone, it was just funny)
This is a deterministic password manager, which is not a very good idea. https://tonyarcieri.com/4-fatal-flaws-in-deterministic-passw...
The best you can usually do is clustering, but at that point you can just as well render clusters as single nodes and significantly lessen the strain on the visualization or the layout. I'm always astonished when customers ask about visualizing graphs with tens of thousands to millions of nodes. Thy usually have never thought about the UX implications of that (let alone the time needed to calculate a layout which results in an image so large that each node is smaller than a pixel anyway).
Yup, OpenBSD have even changed calls to other entropy sources to returning strong random by default from arc4random.

http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs&m=141807513728073&w=2
> They even happily implemented DRM when everyone else was doing it.

This is a totally disingenuous interpretation of EME. I think you mean when Google, despite their ~open source bona fides~ with Chromium, collaborated with Microsoft and Netflix to introduce DRM to the browser and used their crushing market dominance to force Mozilla to comply or fall even further behind?
Partially related, but they didn't demonstrate massive focus. FirefoxOS - why did they start that?

It was like they forgot why they started Firefox (I used it when it was still called Firebird) in the first place - to have a streamlined focused browser that didn't include Mozilla's other suite (email, Frontpage clone, browser) but in the end has ended up being Mozilla 2.0.
It was too slow and sluggish for too long. I just fired it up, and although that is not the case any more, at the end of the day... it is useful to just be mainstream when mainstream is good. https://www.netmarketshare.com/browser-market-share.aspx?qpr...
In my experience the firefox devtools are much better (more features, better UX) than Firebug nowadays. I've been using them for one and a half years now (Firebug before).

Give it a try: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Tools/Migrating_fro... and https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Tools
An aftermarket head unit with DAB+ costs about €150 with installation. Owners of older cars aren't stuck, but they will have to pay for the privilege of continuing to receive radio broadcasts.
I just opened an Ubuntu VM where Firefox is the default and it feels like going ~10 years back: random messages, random prompts to accept, bloated interface etc.

http://imgur.com/a/Wn7HL
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Excellent article! Lots of tips that are applicable to non-React projects as well (simple over customisable components for example).
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Yesterday they banned a privacy extension that doesn't fit their business model and forcefully removed it from users who already had it installed.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13327228