DiCarlo: Everybody hates Firefox updates

Posted Jul 7, 2012 21:51 UTC (Sat) by man_ls (guest, #15091)
In reply to: DiCarlo: Everybody hates Firefox updates by callegar
Parent article: DiCarlo: Everybody hates Firefox updates

I find it hard to believe that people moves to chrome due to the fact that the rapid release process breaks their extensions, since they will probably not find those same extensions in chrome.

Interesting. I think that the argument goes like this: when people evaluate Firefox vs Chrome, they weigh all their extensions and customizations vs the faster, shinier Chrome. But once extensions start to break, there is no reason to stay and people flock to Chrome.

Truth is, with AdBlock installed, Chrome is a pleasant browser with lots of nice touches. Tabs feel snazzy, and when the browser crashes only the current tab is affected. As an anecdote, Firefox just ate a previous version of this comment because I was playing with bookmarks...

DiCarlo: Everybody hates Firefox updates

Posted Jul 8, 2012 23:58 UTC (Sun) by k8to (guest, #15413) [Link]

Sure, but all your extensions are already working in Firefox. Leaping into the unknown is scary. Will I be able to get readability? Will there be something equivalent to ItsAllText (which should have been built into Mozilla from day 1 and was the most popular bug entry ever for around 6 years). And so on..

Maybe there will be, but you'll have to figure it all out and.. who wants to do that?

Until they all start breaking on Firefox repeatedly, in which case figuring that all starts to seem a lot LESS painful than staying with Firefox.