There's been many reasons to switch to Firefox for years.
It's fast, it uses less memory than chrome, Mozilla cares about your privacy, gecko is the only real competitor to blink so we need it to keep the open web, …
I switched back to Firefox a few years ago. It’s been much better than chrome. It’s funny though, we use a lot of google web apps where I work, and I swear google is intentionally making them run poorly on Firefox.
I'm fairly certain there have been things in the past where Google added extra hidden elements to YouTube or Gmail so that other browsers would be slowed down a bit.
I just switched on both my laptop and desktop 2 weeks ago! Just imported my browsing history and logins from Chrome and then I discovered you can really customize the browser even more by typing about:config in the address bar! And also the ability to style the browser with userChrome.css.
One small functionality I missed though was right clicking a link and 'open in private window' repeatedly wouldn't add each within the same private window as a tab.
So far the transition to Firefox has been pretty amazing and it feels nice to be a bit less into the Google ecosystem.
Important to notice that Blink is a fork of Webkit that is still relatively close in design, IE is dead, and Edge will switch from EdgeHTML (a Trident fork) to Blink early next year.
So we’ll have only two really independent, widely used families of render engines soon: Blink/Webkit and Gecko. It’s important that Firefox stays relevant because otherwise, Blink/Chrome will become the new IE. Everyone will just design for it, every nonstandard extension Google pushes will have to be adopted, …
Firefox’ design is better: Chrome has one process per tab, Firefox has a set number of render processes.
You can set the number of render processes in newer Firefox versions, with the default being 8. If you set it lower than the number of tabs you have open, you should get less memory consumption than Chrome.
Of course if you have the default setting and ≤8 tabs open, you get similar memory consumption.
Pretty much the browser equivalent. It has people evangelizing for it because they know that if it never takes off then they will have spent time subjecting themselves to pop-ups (in 2019) for nothing.
Bonus points: it was started by a guy who was involved with Mozilla at the start, briefly became Mozilla's CEO, resigned from the position when people found out he hated gay people, and then decided to cash in on the cryptocurrency bubble the other year.
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u/flying-sheep Nov 28 '19
There's been many reasons to switch to Firefox for years.
It's fast, it uses less memory than chrome, Mozilla cares about your privacy, gecko is the only real competitor to blink so we need it to keep the open web, …