> Firefox is very usable and increasing its market share starts with you. Or to use another cliche - be the change you wish to see.
I use Firefox despite long standing bugs. Somehow a browser that aggressively throttles background tabs is still able to leak memory to background tabs. For the longest time Firefox messed with my wireless headset, they finally added proper support for web audio APIs and things are better now.
CPU usage is still all over the place. Some inactive tab will cause FF to spin CPU usage up to 100%.
Firefox still leaks resources, I can shut down all tabs and still have the media playback process using up tons of CPU and RAM.
WebGL performance is worse than Chrome.
TBF it has been getting steadily better over the last year, I have noticed a marked improvement. I'd say a year or so ago it was noticeably bad on a regular basis, now it is an occasional annoyance. But it should never have gotten that bad.
More to the point of the question, Google spent a LONG time pushing Chrome, hard. They paid lots of # to bundle it with app updates years ago. Visiting Google properties causes banner ads "Download Chrome!" to appear. A few years back YouTube videos would occasionally just stop working in Firefox.
And now days with Node development, well, Node developer tools are built into Chrome. React developer tools run in Chrome.
I use Firefox despite long standing bugs. Somehow a browser that aggressively throttles background tabs is still able to leak memory to background tabs. For the longest time Firefox messed with my wireless headset, they finally added proper support for web audio APIs and things are better now.
CPU usage is still all over the place. Some inactive tab will cause FF to spin CPU usage up to 100%.
Firefox still leaks resources, I can shut down all tabs and still have the media playback process using up tons of CPU and RAM.
WebGL performance is worse than Chrome.
TBF it has been getting steadily better over the last year, I have noticed a marked improvement. I'd say a year or so ago it was noticeably bad on a regular basis, now it is an occasional annoyance. But it should never have gotten that bad.
More to the point of the question, Google spent a LONG time pushing Chrome, hard. They paid lots of # to bundle it with app updates years ago. Visiting Google properties causes banner ads "Download Chrome!" to appear. A few years back YouTube videos would occasionally just stop working in Firefox.
And now days with Node development, well, Node developer tools are built into Chrome. React developer tools run in Chrome.