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I've given Firefox multiple chances, but we've had no progress with the MacOS performance issues for years. Also, no pinch-to-zoom? 2007 called, and it wants its browser back.

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Energy usage on MacOS is another problem, especially compared to safari.

I am using safari for a while now, but every now and then you just have to admit chrome does some things much better, like tab management and the dev tools are more user friendly. Which, i realize, is the case for firefox btw. Ff tab management and dev tools are quite nice.

Yes - but it's miles ahead of Chrome IMHO.

I had to move from Chrome to Safari because it just pegged the fans on constantly once I had a few tabs open.

Then I got tired with some sites not working well in Safari and moved back to FF which is much improved.

Yes, all those Macbook Pros that operate at the limits of their thermal system start venting like crazy when using Firefox. I prefer it so much more over all other browsers, but this drove me to using Safari almost all the time.

Firefox will still often call for the dedicated GFX card (boosting battery usage) and then refuse to let it go even if you close the tab. I generally switch to Safari when I'm trying to maximize battery life.

If you haven't already, please fill out the feedback form here: https://qsurvey.mozilla.com/s3/FirefoxInput/

Why?

My big Firefox problem is the lack of media key support. I like to hit play or pause on my keyboard and have my streaming music start or top. It's probably the one big thing that makes me run Chrome all the time.

This sounds like a pretty easy feature to implement and send upstream, you should give it a shot. In my everyone has their niche "one big thing", and it's different for every user and impossible for upstream to accommodate for. But scratching your own itches always works!

It's blocked by this issue:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1411795

You used to be able to work around the problem with an extension (MediaKeys) but that stopped working with Quantum.

That's basically when I went back to Chrome. I keep checking on Firefox to see how they are doing though.

Lack of pinch-to-zoom has also ended all my attempts to move back to Firefox. Just too used to that.

It's equally useful both on Windows and macOS.

I used it for 6 months and gave up few weeks ago for this reason.

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