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How Firefox Loses When it Tries to Copy Chrome (www.quippd.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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You might not know it, but Firefox was once widely considered to be an innovative browser. It wasn’t just an alternative to Internet Explorer (and now Chrome). Firefox introduced honest-to-goodness new features that people loved and rely on to this day.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I was there when Chrome launched. From the start it was a memory hog, but otherwise looked like a decent alternative. Firefox was stable, and lightweight, and overall better tho.

I was also there when FF adopted Chrome's rapid prototyping model of development with radically rising build numbers. It's not about the numbers, but over time FF's entire philosophy has changed mostly to just copycat Chrome.

Especially crappy is the mobile browser imo, which has really turned to meh in the past few years.

And I also blame Mozilla for abandoning the Firefox OS. Something really cool could've become out of that. In fact, something has, as KaiOS has the basis in FF OS, and it looks like a pretty sweet OS honestly.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Actually, the mobile browser had a major overhaul a few years ago. I had switched to mobile Firefox just a few months before the new version and performance has vastly improved. Usability is okay (sometimes I wonder if these folks use their own software). But otherwise not much has changed since then.