. . . you do know Chrome's at version 22 and version 24 is in dev release, right?
Knock FF for the more disruptive update process, and for breaking plugins in earlier releases, sure. But (AFAIK) the plugin interfaces have been stable for quite some time now, and Firefox 15 introduced true silent updates. They seem to have fixed the pain points in their rapid release schedule.
If you use Chrome, however, you cannot knock them for iterating more quickly; Chrome's in the same boat.
My Chrome plugins don't break. They can change the version every day for all I care just don't break my plugins, extensions.
Also, believe me, Chrome is not without its bugs or regressions. Rapid iteration means things will break more often, by its very nature. Hence my statement: you can't knock Firefox for rapid releases if you've moved to Chrome. You're in the same damn boat.
I personally always have both Chrome and Firefox open, Chrome seems more responsive at times ( at least on my Macbook Pro ), but I can't get any productivity out of it (I'm a Web Dev) Firefox is a big winner for me here.
And one more thing about version numbers, chrome latest version is 22.0.1229.94
Yes I just admitted chrome dev tools are better.
Even when I used FF and as much as I liked Firebug the Chrome Dev Tools are better for me as well.
>I could change the font, background and foreground colors I would think of moving to chrome to do my dev work
I'm sitting here going "...uh, I bet you can do that in IE's tools"? In seriousness though, no, I appreciate your honesty. Everyone has their preferences. I uh, will try to refrain from judging your horrible choices (I'm kidding).
I was mostly worried that something major changed in the last few versions of Firefox. I'm fortunate that my current projects are for myself, and thus I don't venture off of my existing tools too much, even for testing.
You can even inspect an inspector to dig right into selectors.
I wish there were flattr for HN (which I had to think about to remember the name of to then mention it).
I use it because no other browser handles 30+ tabs like a champ while only using between 800GB-1.3 GB while still being fast. Chrome uses anywhere between 1GB - 1.8GB. And just look at Chrome's mess. How do I even tell which tabs are which? That's why I really like Firefox's Tab Groups feature. I always have 3 tab groups and it's incredibly easy to switch between them. And then there are great extensions like Tab Mix Plus, NoScript, Firebug...
Moreover, Mozilla is the one company that I really trust. They genuinely care about user privacy, net neutrality etc. Google, not so much.
It's Chrome that makes me yawn.
Oh, and JavaScript was faster in Chrome, FF did improve JS speed though.
However, those are no longer true and FF is very competitive on speed now (well, I'm still waiting for Linux to shake off all the cruft from the 2 years that they simply ignored us), but it's quite fast in my Windows VM and Mac.
edit: I'm now the third person in this thread to tell you that the Firefox upgrade experience has become quite seamless. I promise you, I don't work for Mozilla and I'm betting the other folks don't either. I use Chrome 99% of the time, I have no reason to lie about Firefox being good.
edit2: What plugins do people legitimately use today? Ok, I whitelist Flash, but other than that? Ooops, turns out I also have NaCl and Chrome's PDF viewer allowed.