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I also switched back to firefox a few weeks ago and I'm not impressed.

* Performance is really not that good. I especially have issue on Google sites (Docs and Drive).

* Scroll-wheel to switch between tabs is gone.

* No multi-tab management (shift/ctrl+click to select and move multiple tabs) like Chrome has

* Firefox's UI on Android is utter garbage, so I haven't been able to switch there which defeats the point of having browser sync. [it leaves zero space for the url bar, all taken by useless buttons which Chrome cleverly hides under the menu button]

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> I especially have issue on Google sites (Docs and Drive)

And YouTube. And Search. Hangouts, Gmail, Maps, Calendar, Groups, everything else? I don't buy it for a second that it isn't on purpose, even with the polyfill justification.

You only make it easier for people like me to continue ignoring Chrome (if I even needed more reasons).

I don’t think Google is trying to slow it down or does any work to hamper FF or Safari or IE.

I just don’t think they care. If it works, more or less, ship it.

Not lightning fast in Chrome? Put a couple of engineers on it.

Welcome back to 1998 and ‘Best Viewed With’ badges.

Let's hope they don't decide to serve Firefox users JSON output and call it a day

https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/7oxiae/i_had_to_us...

> Scroll-wheel to switch between tabs is gone.

But I can scroll through list of clickable and readable tabs if they don't fit the screen all at once, unlike in Chrome where you get lots of unusable hair-thin controls instead.

What's wrong with the Firefox on Android? Recent version is minimalistic in terms of design, while works the same way as desktop FF in terms of UX. I've never had any issues, plus "Firefox Sync", "Send Tab to Device..." and Pocket Reader integration—are really great features.

As for desktop version, multiselect/moving tabs is convenient on Chrome, but vertical tabs/bookmarks/history/synced devices available in Firefox is much, much better.

And not to forget the most important feature: you can install uBlock Origin

I had no idea you could select multiple tabs in Chrome. That's awesome--thank you!!

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