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Well you have to be better than Chrome, otherwise why switch? I am a diehard Firefox user, but if all you care for is speed then there is no reason to switch until Firefox surpasses Chrome. There are transition costs.

For me one killer feature Firefox has is container tabs.

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>Well you have to be better than Chrome, otherwise why switch?

This is such a killer point I wish I could give you ten upvotes. I tried the new Firefox, was immediately impressed by its speed, Tweeted about it and thanked them, and then I continued using Chrome.

Makes sense why Microsoft was hit with IE anti-trust issues. Inertia exists in software.

For people to switch en mass, Firefox's features and speed will not help. People have to start feeling problems with Chrome.

True. I switched from Firefox to Chrome when Firefox stopped working. Literally - it would freeze and make me reboot my PC. Not gonna switch back as long as Chrome works.

Ever hit Ctrl+S on sites like Gmail or Inbox on Chrome?

No. What's that supposed to do?

Try it :) For me, Ctrl+S on Chrome on most sites hangs up the browser for few seconds, even into minutes before it shows the File Save popup. And most of the times, I do Ctrl+S by mistake out of habit has that binding is for searching in Emacs.

Not sure why Chrome takes minutes to present the File Save popup, but that action is instant on Firefox.

The same thing happens to me! I always thought it was just Qt/KDE being slow for some reason, but maybe it is Chrome!

Yes, the container tabs are really nice if you want to make tracking harder for advertisers, LinkedIn etc.

I'm eagerly waiting the ability to associate a bookmark with a given container, especially when opening multiple bookmarks at once. Apparently it'll arrive in v59.

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