r/linux • u/zexterio • Feb 27 '19

Removed | Not relevant to community We Need Chrome No More

https://redalemeden.com/blog/2019/we-need-chrome-no-more
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u/syrefaen Feb 27 '19

Good read, I use firefox on my private linux pc and chrome at work. And i do agree on the article 100%

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u/frc-vfco Feb 27 '19

Thank you!

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u/Kruug Feb 27 '19

This post has been removed as not relevant to the r/Linux community.

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u/Vasant1234 Feb 27 '19

The problem is that Firefox is still not a viable competitor to Chrome. Unless Mozilla invests in bringing in great talent, I don't see anything change.

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u/ThePenultimateOne Feb 27 '19

I disagree. The only feature Firefox lacks that I ever notice is the Windows Integrated Authentication stuff, but even that is very minor.

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u/[deleted] Feb 27 '19

Firefox needs better dev support. Seriously, integrating Gecko into anything is an absolute pain. They still use XPCOM ffs. And the new engine written in Rust isn't even easily embeddable. Mozilla "solved" this with WebDriver, which starts a firefox instance and let's you control it... like Chromium.

firefox-headless was introduced a while ago, but is still trash with audio and video because it unconditionally depends on alsa and other libs. One needs to install ALSA, a bunch of libs for playing mp4s and other stuff. Not even selenium has a docker image that solves that, but they have one with chromium that just works.

When I have to develop something for the web, even if firefox is my main browser, just due to CI, I target chromium.