Dear Mozilla, we have to talk…
Tags: mozilla, firefox, improvementrequest, webstandards
Published: 2023-08-20 19:42:20

## TL;DR

I use **[Firefox Developer Edition](https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/developer/)** as my default browser, and it has amazing features, but lately it has become harder to maintain this conviction due to its **poor performance and behavior**. And Mozilla, you can do something about it.

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## A cool browser

I do want to use [Safari](https://www.apple.com/safari/). It's cool, it accepts the **“theme-color” meta tag** and it's **super fast**. Its interface looks good, and **webpages look good in it too**. It integrates fine with macOS, so **you can use your defined text replacement configuration**, too.

Let's illustrate Safari's coolness with an image:

![Front view of the screen of a MacBook Pro with a background of a jungle and a river in gray tones. In the background, without occupying the entire screen, the Safari window with an open post and you can see how integrating the "theme-color" meta tag makes the browser interface appear integrated with the white color of the page.](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/09zc1aw2ar9d1njwfy8k.jpg)

## Hi!

Hi, **my name is Carlos and I am a Front-end developer** at [Paradigma Digital](https://paradigmadigital.com). In my day-to-day life, I use Firefox as my default browser. I also use Chrome because **Google Meet performs horribly in Firefox**.

Back to my day-to-day life, I found **Firefox Devtools have more interesting features** than the other browsers' Devtools, like the **Style Editor** and the **console multi-line editor mode**.

## The browser issue…

I chose Firefox mainly because I lived through the times of IE (5, 6, 7, 8, 9) and **I DO NOT want those times to come back**, but it looks like they are on their way!

The problem with IE wasn't its performance or weird behavior from version/OS to version/OS. It was really about **being used by more than 95% of the users**.

Which browser has a similar user quota nowadays? Chrome! 

Chrome, Opera, Edge, Arc, Vivaldi.... **they all are a Chromium based browsers**.

```
👉 Please don't use Brave, its creator is a homophobic piece of sh*t.
```

Simply by changing from Opera (Chromium) to Firefox, I found myself **writing more robust code thanks to its better support for standards** (HTML/CSS).

Did you notice that many webapps/services **perform poorly in non-chromium based browsers**? Or that their interfaces are broken? **That's what happens when the majority of the developers use Chromium browsers**.


## The talk…

Dear Mozilla, **I DO know the reasons to use Firefox** instead of Safari, and of course, instead of any chromium based browser, I DO.

But, Mozilla, you gotta pay more attention to your users and what they need. **You have to help us to want to use your browser**.

Every week I read one of your newsletters warning us about TikTok, Facebook, or any privacy-ill company doing plain evil stuff. **Aren't you wasting energy in all the wrong places** instead of making **a better browser**? One that works just fine and looks cool?

Here are some ideas of **features that I would like to see improved in Firefox**:

- The Firefox Devtools are amazing and have better features than the rest of the Devtools panels, **but they don't always work fine**.
- **Accept the “theme-color” meta tags already**, for god sake!!!
- Every time you launch a new version, the current one **stops working properly**. Fix this!

And if you find some time to spare, **find a way to integrate really well with macOS**!

Or not, I suppose continuing to do whatever you are doing right now will work just fine.

## Let me know in the comments

What is your default browser? Do you use more than one? In what cases? Why and for what reasons?

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**Credits**:

- <small>Photo by [Felipe Labate](https://unsplash.com/@felipelabate?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText) on [Unsplash](https://unsplash.com/photos/MeDMTl7Lna0?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText)</small>.
- <small>Mozilla logo by [Mozilla](https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/)</small>.
- <small>Macbook Pro device by [Apple](https://www.apple.com/safari/)</small>.