The most bizarre part of this is coworkers ridiculing someone for using a completely modern browser that's just as up-to-date as Chrome, and possibly with better privacy. Completely bizarre to me. I'm glad I don't work there.
Why would you ridicule someone for using <i>Firefox</i>? It's a great app, high quality, innovative and extremely well maintained.<p>Chrome is as well, of course - but there's no need to be ashamed of using Firefox!
I've been using Chrome for a few years and just moved back to FireFox because Chrome's insane memory usage (on desktop).<p>There are some rough spots in the UX still: (1) I miss my omnibar from Chrome (2) seems like scrolling can be jankier<p>But I prefer to use a Browser from a non-profit like Mozilla, which I feel safer with.<p>I do hope the Firefox team focuses on UX, speed, standards compliance, and security while keeping their browser slim and fast. Less features often means better UX since the UI is less cluttered.
I use Chrome and often have ~100 tabs open. I spread them across multiple windows and try to keep related tabs together in their own window.<p>I use the excellent Session Buddy[0] extension to make this easier. With that, I can save windows ('tab groups') and restore them easily, and it also has a nice list view showing all windows I have open and the tabs in each (which is usually the best way to find a single tab).<p>[0] <a href="http://www.sessionbuddy.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.sessionbuddy.com</a>
I'm in the same boat: I love chrome (actually, it's my primary browser), but I can never quite leave Firefox because of the plugins:
- Multifox ( N different browser sessions, rather than just one for incognito mode and one for normal browsing)
- DNS Flusher (Chrome staunchly refuses to accept when I change my hosts file, which I do daily to switch between live, staging, and production servers).
- Tamper Data (a great tool for monitoring and messing with http requests from your browser).
I'm still using Firefox.<p>As I posted in another thread I periodically test Firefox against Chrome (well Chromium actually, as I refuse to use closed source Chrome) on the pages I frequent.<p>Firefox typically is faster and consumes less memory at least for the sites I frequent.
I'm in the same boat but my plugin of choice is Tab Mix Plus. I can't function without multi-row tabs; my style of browsing is to open lots of tabs. Chrome becomes useless to me in 15-20 minutes of heavy work-related browsing due to too many tiny indistinguishable tabs.
As far as tabs go, if I need organization I have multiple windows of Chrome open with different tabs across different work spaces on my Macbook, and I can just three finger swipe between them.<p>Usually, I have one window open with a bunch of relevant iOS dev tabs (Apple Docs / stack overflow threads) in the space with XCode and Simulator, and another window open with my email / work-related tabs open just a three-finger swipe away.<p>Also, does anyone else find that giant banner "A new kind of magazine for thoughtful shoppers." a bit intrusive?
I'm a browser extension/addon developer and I can tell you that firefox lets you do extra functionalities that the chrome API won't let you, at the cost of making it hard to code an extension (e.g: extra markup language like XUL).<p>I love my FF with Roomy Bookmarks, Alexa, Status-4Eva, and LastTab
Firefox user here. There are so many great plugins I would love to use chrome for, but one singular thing keeps me using Firefox: side tabs.<p>Not even tree style, just a plain and simple side tab list. I'm a tab addict and I can't live without opening a dozen every session. Then i keep them open for weeks like a todo list.<p>Does anyone know if it's possible to write a chrome plugin that can integrate right into the side of the chrome window?
One of my favorite Firefox extensions is RESTClient (<a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/restclient/?src=search" rel="nofollow">https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/restclient/?s...</a>). Haven't found a tool as nice in Chrome yet.<p>That said the only reason I have Firefox around is for that tool and browser testing. I keep subconsciously coming back to Chrome for most of my daily tasks and the lovable Omnibar.
I got addicted to left-pane treeview bookmarks waaay back in my Opera days, imported into FF, still waiting on Chrome (sheesh). But at this point I doubt it would make a difference since the performance advantage has been pretty much erased. FF is fine -- what <i>is</i> Chrome's real advantage these days? Honest question...<p>And there's <i>still</i> not even a decent extension that does it, which seems really odd to me. Anyone know of one (left pane bookmarks that is)?
Two things keep me on Firefox, or did, last time I checked.<p>One is Vimperator or Pentadactyl — whichever better survives the extension-breaking release of the week.<p>The other is that Chrome on Linux cannot be told to use the GUI key for shortcuts rather overloading Control in MS Windows fashion.
I too use Firefox as my primary browser. My co-workers do raise their eyebrows often but I dont think they are trying to ridicule me.<p>The thing that truly keeps me with Firefox is Firebug. Chrome developer tools don't even come close.
I'm pretty minimalist when it comes to add-on usage, but until Chrome's font rendering stops being dogshit compared to other browsers on Windows -- particularly with East Asian fonts -- I'm sticking with Firefox.
Agree with both points from the author. The other 2 big ones that I can't get Chrome to do as well as Firefox are Type-Ahead Find, and the default behaviour of the location bar to match on any URL in your history. The Chrome version tries to be too clever. I just want straight text-to-URL matching.
For me, it's history sync that brought be back to firefox. If you use HN/reddit/etc. from multiple computers, history sync is really helpful. Last I checked, chrome didn't sync history.