Comment by ezekg
3 years ago
What a weird reply. I think I'd especially notice any glaring problems, seeing as I use it every day for web dev. The only issues I've had is that devtools will sometimes completely crash, giving me a white window, requiring me to close the tab to restart devtools. But that's been rare and I can't remember the last time it happened. I completely de-Google'd my life 2 years ago, and I only have Chrome installed so that I can test things cross-browser when needed (e.g. webgl).
Comparing Firefox to IE5/6 is unfounded.
>I only have Chrome installed so that I can test things cross-browser when needed
Read my grandparent comment carefully.
Suppose you have two products A, B. They are roughly feature equivalent but B has a 10x more engineering effort put in towards QOL improvements and fixing the long tail of performance issues.
You are not going to notice this if you generally use A and only once in a while use B.
OTOH, if you use B and suddenly get transported to a A-only world you are going to miss the polish.
Another way to think about this is to compare cheap clothes/shoes to well made expensive ones.
I used Chrome for 8 years prior. I didn't miss a thing after the switch except my autocomplete/history, which I built back up over a few weeks.
You sound like you haven't actually used Firefox recently. If you have, then maybe give specifics.