I use Firefox as my daily driver on my personal and work computers with no issues. I guess YMMV there. I haven’t used chrome for about 3 years now. I keep a chromium browser around o just for testing things across browsers, but I never really need it.
I've been using Firefox exclusively for years. I have no idea what these people who say it breaks sites are talking about. If you absolutely need to use chrome for something just keep chromium around for that specific site.
I still use Firefox on my work computers and personal. The reason simply being that I feel the performance is better than chrome most times. I used Firefox / Mozilla for many years, then went to chrome when it was new and shiny, but I’m back to Firefox as I believe it truly is the better product. They just need to somehow market it better to people.
I'm surprised more people don't use Firefox, even from a practical point of view.
The main reason I use it as my main driver is because I use Chrome for all my work stuff. I then use Firefox for all my personal stuff, so it separates the two, especially on my work laptop.
I use Chrome at work and Firefox on personal devices (including my Android phone).
As a heavy user of both browsers, as far as I can see there is really no downside to Firefox.
In fact, even though presumably there are way more engineers working on Chrome than on Firefox, I guess most of Chrome's engineering effort goes towards benefitting advertisers, not users. While Chrome seems entirely stagnant since I adopted it 4 years ago, Firefox gets a steady trickle of improvements and fixes.
Chrome is a good browser, used it at work until recently. I use Firefox at home because I'm very familiar with it now. More importantly to me, whether it really makes a difference, I like at least one part of my online experience not to be totally dependent on Google.
This is precisely why I've switched to Firefox in recent years. It's quite good these days. I don't even have Chrome installed on my current personal PC.
I would much much rather be using Firefox, but I use Chrome because of the issues being mentioned. Firefox becomes unresponsive for me left running for more than a few days.
I started using Firefox about two years ago. The only time I ever have to launch Chrome now is to specifically test Chrome compatibility. Other than that, I've never missed Chrome.
I have switched from chrome to firefox on desktop just recently, because chrome accumulated so many usability problems that i can not stand it anymore.
I was a faithful Firefox user until there were just too many features Chrome had that either Firefox lacks or I just haven't found. For example:
* Takes up less vertical space - very nice on a netbook.
* You can use one address bar to search any search engine with just the keyboard. I used to have separate address/google and wikipedia bars on Firefox; now everything's combined into one bar.
* Sync lets me keep my bookmarks, etc. up to date on multiple machines/operating systems.
* I've noticed that load times and browsing are significantly faster.
etc.
As a web developer, I loved Firefox for its web development tools, but nowadays I've been able to find all the tools I need for Chrome.
I switched to firefox for personal use only. I still like chrome for work. It's a good way to try out firefox and it also separates my work and home life which is nice.
I have used Firefox for long periods of time, mainly because Google stores everything I do with Chrome. But Firefox is just too resource hungry. Slow at times. Even for development Firefox is a hog. At least it feels like it. So I end up using Chrome more.
At home I only use Firefox (on my Linux machines).
For many (not all) sites Firefox is actually the fastest choice.
Being reminded today I also just installed Firefox on my - relatively new - work machine. Somehow I am more tolerant there running Chrome than on my own machines.
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