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I can't comment on the other points, but the author is right about Firefox. The last time I tried it (several months ago), it really came across as a browser that looks like Chrome but is worse in almost every way. It's lack of performance is what struck out to me the most, despite the fact that I have several extensions running.

This is just anecdotal of course, so take it with a grain of salt.

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To counter your anecdote with some more anecdote, I just switched from Chrome to Firefox and have felt that the latter has some serious performance advantages over the former.

It's probably just me, but I always struggle with the "latter" and "former" construction, especially when they are reversed like that. I had to read it several times before I understood. In case it helps someone else, it translates as:

  To counter your anecdote with some more anecdote, I 
  switched from Chrome to Firefox, and have felt that that 
  Firefox has some serious performance advantages over Chrome.

I wonder sometimes if my inability to parse sentences like this relates to my preference for C over C++. The "former" and "latter" abstraction reminds me of Eli's examples here http://eli.thegreenplace.net/2016/returning-multiple-values-... of first->first and first->second.

Sorry to have been unclear -- thank you for making the effort to read my measly comment, however!

It does appear similar to the idea of abusing tuples, insofar as having to keep the meanings of each element in mind without any help from the syntax. shrugs I guess my nervousness around Internet commenting surfaces as excessively formal language. Apologies again for any future confusion :|

I honestly wonder to what degree this is just a "perceptions being warped by preconceptions" thing. I use Firefox at home and Chrome at work and the differences in performance are insignificant compared to stuff like Chrome constantly asking me if I want to get tracked.

also, iirc, Firefox did alright in benchmarks at many points in history.

My wife was complaining about the performance of her computer. Shes running a MacBook Air, Chrome, Firefox and Quickbooks. Ran a system check and Firefox running 7 tabs (2 spreadsheets, 1 email, 1 pinterest and browising 3 ecom sites) was taking up over 1.4gb of ram. Seriously.

Killed Firefox and the system responsiveness was considerably better. Its amazing that the memory bloat in FF has been allowed to go on for so long. But hey, IoT!

I have never really had performance issues in either browser to be honest. They both work fine, I just prefer firefox, possibly above all else because I love the UI on firebug.

Author thinks that a browser that hijacks ads to show other ads is going to be a hit. The first technology that gets added to that thing via 3rd party plugin is going to be an ad blocker, because the entire idea is stupid.

When I switched from iOS to Android at the start of the year I switched from Firefox to Chrome to give it a try again (because why not) and yup Chrome is better in pretty much every way IMHO. The only thing I actually dislike about Chrome when compared to Firefox is that Firefox saves the page state when navigating backwards but Chrome does not (such as on reddit if you have collapsed comment threads).

Literally everything else about Chrome is better. Oh yeah and it actually syncs all my settings correctly unlike on Firefox where some changes never seem to sync for some reason.

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