me and mozilla go way back, to the days of netscape navigator. we’re old friends… even through the worst of times (aol ownership), i’ve stood by my best bud.
I remember back then when people stop using FF because it used more PC resources than the OS itself and all started using Chrome because it was fast and lightweight.
Mental how it is genuinely the other way around now, but on the masses people might not even know that a computer has limited resources so that’s probably a contributor to no mass exodus to FF.
The average person definitely doesn’t have a good understanding of computational resources, but they will use an application they find smoother and less clunky than another. Realistically the performance and resource usage of chrome is not going to be bad enough to drive most people to Firefox these days, and Firefox won’t be enough of an improvement for most people to notice. Chrome also had a huge marketing campaign when it launched… I suspect that was crucial for getting people to adopt chrome (otherwise how do you even get people to think about switching?), but I don’t think Mozilla has the resources for such a campaign. Time will tell, though. I hope we’ll see more people switching to Firefox in the future.
Not necessarily. Using more RAM doesn’t increase energy usage, at least not significantly. And if you can use that to avoid making disk or network accesses, it’ll save energy. Obviously keeping the CPU spinning at 100% isn’t helping anybody, though.
Always has been.
As someone using Firefox for basically ever, Chrome has always seemed like bloated garbage to me. Deleted it a while back and never looked back.
I switched about 2 years ago when I turned on sync. It’s just so reliable and fast, it’s simple and does its job perfectly. Frequently send tabs between devices and it’s instantaneous, bookmarks get synced immediately as well. Also they promise they don’t sell our data to advertisers which is a plus, though I can’t verify it and they could go rogue in the future idk. Also the fact that the browser is not intrusive at all is a huge plus. No annoying popups “try feature X” “login with your google account now” etc etc.
I do have some issues with it but that’s mostly because some people/companies don’t properly test their website on firefox. Also had an issue with its performance in the past, but now lately it feels as fast as chrome both on android and pc.
I used Vimprobable for a while. But I came to miss some of the gui features.
I had my first website tell me today that I can’t access their domain on FF. It was Adobe. Fuck em
I’m not a fan of the inability to drag a tab into a snapping position, I have to drag it out, then drag the new window to the snap location.
And apparently this has been a documented issue for 15 years, and there’s been little to no progress in all that time.
The open source community works in mysterious ways. This bug reminds me about the audio via HDMI bug for old radeon video cards. A simple flag in kernel configuration could have fixed it, yet the bug has been present in kernels from something like 4.1 to 6.0. It only recently has been fixed, after years of having to patch your kernel for a very simple bug.
The secret is fixing it yourself and submitting a pull request for approval/further additions.
Unless its GNOME in which case the maintainers will tell you to screw off and you will promptly switch to a better alternative.
When it comes to open-source software, usually it’s absolutely critical bugs that get patched or necessary features that get worked on, since it’s really just volunteer work.
Pay every contributor a salary to make the program “feel” nice instead of actually bloody work (hi every ms app), then we’ll talk.