Comment by vinayms | Hacker News Reader

Comment by vinayms | Hacker News Reader

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The biggest draw to Chrome is the dev tools. The debugger especially is on par with Visual Studio, may be better, and smooth (too smooth actually, especially the scrolling) whereas Firefox chokes 90% of the time as if it were created by novices. For instance, the break point never works, and if it does, the variable values are undefined. I am using v60 but this has been happening for many versions now. I have never faced a hiccup with Chrome. That said, I use Chrome exclusively for debugging and do general development and browsing exclusively on FF. Only if FF could improve theirs and spare us running two memory hogging browsers simultaneously.

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As for the topic, I am not sure how much of this is out of genuine concern for the users and how much is opportunistic jabs at the competitor's revenue. Will the jabs lead to hooks and upper cuts and eventual KO? IDK but it seems like we have a nice match on.

> Firefox chokes 90% of the time as if it were created by novices

Hey now, don't be mean…

> As for the topic, I am not sure how much of this is out of genuine concern for the users and how much is opportunistic jabs at the competitor's revenue.

I wouldn't call it a jab at competitor's revenue, but it does make good business sense to extol privacy as a "feature" of your products.

We as a crowd, as technical peeps, are really hard to please.

You simply can't get it right. Track your users to oblivion? Evil, shady company.

Start integrating features in your products to limit invasive tracking..it's not genuine, it's a ploy to screw other companies' revenue.

I like the skepticism, but taking a step back to reflect on this nowandthen is good IMO.

I use a bare chrome for dev, and Firefox for my other browsing needs. Does the work...

> whereas Firefox chokes 90% of the time as if it were created by novices

I've found the opposite to be true. When I use Chrome I have pages freeze occasionally, but Firefox handles them every time.

> I am not sure how much of this is out of genuine concern for the users...

Does it matter as long as it benefits the user?

On a philosophical level, yes, intentions matter, not just here but in general. There are ample scenarios where wrong intentions lead to positive results, and they are rightly criticized.

As for this point you have highlighted, its just a comment, thinking out aloud, and not worthy of dissection or having a discussion about.

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