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I have been using Firefox on macOS for a while but firefox is not well-integrated with the OS. Scrolling, downloading files, playing video/audio and many more have different convention from Safari/Chrome. Also, I am trying to avoid using Firefox on battery because it is a killer.

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I've been using FF on macOS for the past year and haven't noticed any problems with the battery. I'm not sure what the problems are with scrolling, downloading, or playing media are either to be honest.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=909760 and https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1104146 are the issues for downloading which are 4 and 6 years old.

Chrome and Safari support keyboard multimedia keys to play/pause video and audio which firefox does not. Picture in Picture is not available on Firefox.

Pinch and double tap gestures to zoom are not available. Scrolling does not follow system conventions like overflow kinetic scrolling.

https://pcwalton.github.io/2018/12/07/plans-for-2019.html mentions about excessive power consumption on webrender.

> Pinch and double tap gestures to zoom are not available. Scrolling does not follow system conventions like overflow kinetic scrolling.

I find this hugely annoying as well on MacOS when using the touchpad. This is also the reason why I stick to iOS instead of going for Android. All of these details are great on my laptop and phone, though they're not what I really need on my desktop.

Ah I see, I guess I don't use any of that stuff myself. I tend to move between macOS and Linux, so I don't get too attached to system specific shortcuts. That said, I really don't see any of these problems as being show stoppers, and I haven't noticed much difference in battery usage between Chrome and FF.

2015-01-25 Support elastic overscroll (rubberbanding) on macOS: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1124108

I’ve commented about this before, specifically about Firefox on OS X, but the sentiment seems to be that “you’re using it wrong”.

Truly in the Steve Jobs spirit.

Some (most?) people have no eye for design and simply don't notice stuff like that.

Until recently Firefox's URL bar had a THICK blue glow when it was in focus, instead of the more subtle one the rest of Mac OS has. It infuriated me. They didn't fix it for years. Why? Because nobody noticed it or cared enough, I guess.

> It infuriated me. They didn't fix it for years.

"They didn't fix it" implies someone reported it as a bug. Even if no one did, if you were infuriated by it, surely you did, right?

It’s an art to craft a bug report convincing enough to address the issue.

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