Chrome is really popular. I'm pretty sure everyone knows it. Chart confirmation. I still use Firefox.
Side Tabs
A good side tabs extension is the primary reason I use Firefox. A row of tabs on top is the worst thing ever. Lists are great:
I use the "Tab Tree" extension (thank you Sergey Zelentsov). Chrome has a handful of side tabs extensions, but I don't consider them usable.
That's It
Side tabs is the only reason I use Firefox.
What's different?
Since I'm using Firefox on my laptop, I'd like everything to sync to my phone so I don't have to retype all my passwords. I like Firefox for Android's tab screen better than Chrome. That's the only difference I notice so that works out pretty well.
I'm in the dev tools quite a bit throughout the day, and I find the Firefox dev tools more intuitive. Chrome can take it's 'Elements', 'Sources', 'Application' tabs and shove it - I prefer 'Inspector', 'Debugger', 'Storage'. Honestly it's not a big difference to me. Some people feel strongly about dev tools.
Should I ever be debugging a cross-browser issue, my other (more popular) browsers are clean installs. Nice to have.
Firefox doesn't support integrated windows authentication. That's alright by me.
I don't understand why more people don't demand side tabs.
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I still use Firefox because of a much more important feature: I can bookmark a website into the toolbar with simply dragging and dropping the tab!
Come on Chrome, why the f*ck not is this not possible, why I have to push another button for this!????? Goddamn....
Firefox quantum developer edition is a dream!
Also, in Chrome, infinite opened tabs will result in each tab being infinitely small. In Firefox, tabs can be scrolled through with the mouse wheel.
There's this extension called Tabs Outliner on Chrome that offers really great nested tab functionality (IMO better than FF's Tree-Style Tabs).
I use Firefox on my home machine purely for the performance of Quantum. I still find Chrome extensions superior by far, though. That could change as more WebExtensions are added in FF, but so far I've not found direct equivalents that work just as well.
(For those curious: Tabs Outliner, Quick Tabs, and Google Search Navigator, are my mainstays that I make sure to install wherever I go. I have corresponding extensions in FF (Tree-Style Tabs, Saka and Google Search Keyboard Shortcuts), but they're not equally good.)
The reason I use Firefox is memory consumption. My laptop doesn't get down if I've one IDE running with Firefox. But with chrome I've to code on sublime.
Just use Vivaldi :)
what i hate about firefox is the dev tools, recently they removed the preveiew tab and i really hate iit
I often use split screen, so this is a no for me, also I'm trying to navigate trough tabs using the keyboard.
I'm not familiar with the FF dev tools since ...many yrs ago, did they added all the goodies from Chrome? Debugging, remote debugging (from mobile or node), throttle web requests, multiple resolution/user agents/mobile emulation, load files from local storage & modify them, fire charts, CPU/GPU/Memory analysis?
As a side note I even used Chrome fire charts with data from C#, to measure the performance :))
my only hate for firefox is that firefox on ipad sucks. there, ive used chrome so long now, switching would be a problem.
amazing recommendation! thanks! : )
Firefox has built in options to stop HTML5 video autoplay as well.
I've been thinking about making the switch back to Firefox for a week now (since I found out about the autoplay option) and after this and the video I saw today with the CSS grid inspector coming soon, I'm gonna go back now.
I'm going to try out the side tabs as well. They seem neat.
I'm with you on Firefox for a few reasons (the ones that make me stick with Firefox):
Firefox is infinitely customizable and extensible. Yes, you can have your side tabs. I like my top tabs (gauge of how much I'm distracted by how many tabs are crowded there) clean of any buttons in a tab bar with the new tab button on the left and the close tab button on the right, under the address bar (where it should be), which is under a combined menu and bookmark bar. No other browser does this!
When debugging SSL Certificates, Firefox gives me a ton more info than any other browser by default. Chrome? Zilch. IE/Edge? Nada. I'm assuming this is because Firefox doesn't use any OS based framework for web page calls.
Firefox was first on Unix and Linux. IE... a showing when it got around to it, and never raced again. Chrome? Late, but it's here to stay. I'm too used to Firefox.
For everyone here wanting this but not use Firefox, give Vivaldi a shot! It's based on Chromium, but with tons of new features and awesome things. Tried it because I wanted something different and never looked back.
same here... i also love vivaldi's tab stacks & groups!
Wow, I'm impressed. Sounds like Vivaldi for Android and a Sync feature are high priorities for them too. I'm sure I'll switch in the next 18-24 weeks.
why switch? use them both! personal browser, professional browser!
I 2nd this. I love Vivaldi b/c you can still have access Chrome Web Store.
Yeah, it's a shame that extensions in Chrome get little to no UI modification capabilities. I switched to Chrome and I miss that from Firefox.
btw, another (and probably more solid) option would be to use Tab Center (testpilot.firefox.com/experiments/...). It is developed by Mozilla devs (as far as I know) and is part of the Firefox Testpilot program...
It notes that it won't work after Firefox 56 on the page. I've learned just now from twitter that they're disabling their XUL stuff with that release, which will probably break my side tabs as well, and make me very sad.
There will be also sidebar tabs extensions in the no-xul-world. Tab Center Redux is already a WebExtensions (compatible with future releases). It still misses the part to hide the original tab strip but there will be an API in the future and in the meantime you can hide it via userChrome.css.