Both Chrome and Edge are just hostile towards my browsing experience. Chrome keeps on rolling out new settings to pilfer my browsing data. Edge will just kill all of my settings to anything Microsoft wants.
Arc and Firefox are working reliably at the moment but Firefox remains a stable option to come back to everytime.
Don't get me wrong, I've been using Firefox for the last decade and I don't intend on using anything else for the foreseeable future, but Mozilla has no idea what they're doing with Firefox nowadays. Firefox View is the most useless thing I've ever seen, that expiring "independent voices" theme picker was some weird hippie stunt[1], the latest UI redesign which split the tab from the window looks hideous, and it's not like Firefox doesn't have things you can tweak for a more private experience[2]. I miss Firefox Test Pilot where they tried out different new features, I found a lot of them to be very useful but sadly lots of them didn't make it. I don't know what's going on at Mozilla but they seem to lack any vision, they're just existing as an option without trying to be the best option.
[1] https://blog.mozilla.org/en/products/firefox/firefox-news/in...
> Mozilla has no idea what they're doing with Firefox
> Mozilla [...] seem to lack any vision
> they're just existing as an option without trying to be the best option
It's not Firefox hate, it's disappointment in Mozilla.
Just because I'm criticizing something doesn't mean I hate it. I want it to be better, and that's something Firefox needs if it wants to get out of the bottom in terms of usage.
Most of it is a performative rant, sort of like a stand-up comedy routine. The target is just material for the routine; nobody takes the comedian too seriously. Every HN thread has it.
If we kept trying to innovate paper, it would just be annoying too.
Sure their sales team is extremely aggressive in corporations and bribe/take out to expensive concerts/sportsball games to sell Power Automate/Office crap.
But from a consumer level, there is almost no reason to use Microsoft services in 2023. Maybe if you are a hardcore gamer and need 60kfpsUltra the day a game is released.
And I was a big fan of Edge when it came out as an alternative to Chrome. There's always an arc (pun intended) where the product goes the profit-at-all-costs direction and chooses to exploit it's users (looking at Chrome/Edge). I will move away from Arc the moment it chooses to do so without allowing me an alternative way to support them.
I would very much miss AppleScript support. It’s the number one reason I (and many users of my tools) don’t touch Firefox. Fortunately, Webkit browsers (Safari, Orion) have got that covered. Unfortunately, Chromium browsers are a more common choice.
One might think the introduction of Shortcuts would be the best time to retire AppleScript, yet Apple made it possible to run shortcuts via AppleScript and one of the standard tasks allows you to run AppleScript from within.
That sounds pretty useful! any chance that script is on gist.github.com or elsewhere?
https://www.alfredapp.com/help/workflows/automations/automat...
The person who has to access a site that takes advantage of that parsing trick every day, I assume.
That having been said... This is an ecosystem thing and if everybody were to switch to Firefox it would be Chrome that had the weird rendering bugs because people would be testing on Firefox first and wouldn't be using layouts that Firefox didn't handle cleanly.
Firefox sucked, weirdly slow.
>2022+
Firefox is just a normal browser. Although, FF on linux was buggy with Spotify. Had to use chromium.
Made the switch around 3 months ago to Firefox and it's been great.
I don't miss anything from Chrome and it's a really solid and fast browser. Mobile iOS could be a bit faster but it's okay.
Desktop Version is the best browser out right now (in my opinion)
Mobile Firefox in iOS is just a wrapper of Safari's Webkit. I use it as I like the syncing features.
Neither Chrome or Safari ever have these issues for me on iOS.
will happily pay any eventual battery price on the laptop
On Android, they also do things right (ok, subjectively) and keep the address/navigation bar on the bottom, so I don't have to stretch to reach the most-commonly used UI elements.