What's so great about Firefox?

[LimitedPunctuation]

No clue on why you're having those issues, can't say that I am.

Anyway, Chrome is technically better and faster. I'm just not a fan of its minimalistic design and prefer Firefox. Nothing more to it, it serves me well enough. Oh and Chrome is being up its own arse about not allowing windowed browsing, forcing people onto tabs. I mix and match both so yeah... fuck em.

chrome has windowed browsing.. you just right click and choose 'open in new window'

 

[tso0001]

As many people have said firefox gives you more customization, but the only thing that annoys me is firefox 5 doesn't allow for the google toolbar which gets annoying.

And as for a secondary web browser I use Opera, it has the minimalistic features of Chrome and it has a turbo feature which is always good if you have a slow internet connection.

 

[TheYellowCellPhone]

It's customizable, it's popular so it has many developers, and it's not IE and doesn't crash every hour.

I use Chrome though.

 

[Coldster]

I don't use Firefox and I don't know anyone that does, but this commercial tells me that it must be pretty good:

 

[darksuccubus]

I guess it's the amount of useful add-ons that make me wanna stick with Firefox. Adblock is probably the most famous but I also have lots of other like Flashgot, skipscreen (for those who are tired of Rapidshare/Depositfiles etc) and Download helper. And of course Personas but that is just for customissations' sake. And I also have Google toolbar so I don't know why you don't have it... oh wait, I think that is another add-on. I can choose from Google search to youtube, piratebay, wikipedia and ebay. pretty comfortable

 

[Treblaine]

I used to use firefox, but it just got SOO SLOW!

OK, I was running a load of add-ons but even when I stripped htem all back it still ground to mollasses.

I switched to Chrome and came to really like how it handled tabs. It was also much more efficient with screen space which is important to me. Just having the row of tabs and the combined search/address bar did me just fine.

It's got a lot of nice little things. Like if I want to go to a frequently used page, I just type part of the name like "tha" auto completes to "www.thatguywiththeglasses.com" and I just press enter to go there.

Then again, chrome has been giving me grief recently with Adobe Flash crashing so often. Though it comes and goes though far easier to fix than Firefox's repeated slowdown and crashing.

 

[satanslawer123]

alot easier to use than most browsers i've used. i got it when google kept crashing on me when i need to use it but i havent had any of crashing or lag problems with firefox since i got it.

 

[octafish]

I use it because I trust it to never skim off my information and sell it to advertisers, and it isn't IE.

 

[Treblaine]

Because I like the layout on Firefox, it works well, and adblock+, noscript and other security measures make it into something that gives me great control over surfing.

No tracking cookies from Facebook's like button on this website, to name you one example.

Right now I'm surfing from work, with IE, but each page of this forum loads, then hangs for a full second before respondiong again. Very annoying. No such problems using Firefox.

That's all stuff I really liked, till I discovered quite how much websites were sabotaging my surfing because I was blocking ads, they would refuse to respond or make no effort to optimise for my browser.

Hell I've come across a few sites that specifically said "No firefox" and that was the last of it.

As tempting as it is to block ads, cookies and scripts, that's picking a fight with websites I don't have the energy to fight. And it seems fair enough, if I block their ads why should they give me content?

Maybe I'll go back to Firefox, and I really appreciate that it was there, but I just feel like it is an evolutionary dead end.

 

[DracoSuave]

Any good thing you like in IE was done years ago by Firefox.

IE has traditionally had the security of swiss cheese. As it's the most used, it's the most exploited. You just get less crudware on your system with Chrome or Firefox, and that's a good enough reason.

 

[funguy2121]

I just want to preface this by saying that I'm not particularly browser savvy and I'm here to learn not to slander. So I recently had to download Firefox for the ad-block feature to watch videos on Channelfireball.com since their ads are insanely obnoxious and disruptive. So far I just don't understand what makes people think Firefox is so awesome. Every time I click on a link from Google it just gives me a "Server not found" message and I'm forced to click on try again to get to the webpage. Not a huge deal, but it's annoying. I listen to a lot of music via Youtube so I often have 10+ tabs open at a time. This was never a problem on Chrome but the last time I was online I tabbed back into Firefox after finishing something else and the browser froze up in that "program not responding" way and then closed half of my tabs. I dunno if that was a memory issue or something but it's never happened to me before. So Firefox users, what makes it your browser of choice? What are the great features I'm missing out on if I stick with Chrome?

Techies love love love Firefox - perhaps because they love working on something? I dunnoh. Here's my web browser experience.

The internet sucks! It's getting slower. Huh? It doesn't have to suck? What is this? "Firefox?" The Angelina Jolie movie? Oh, well. Thank you, Firefox. I'll be sure to install you on my new computer once the great Windows Vista comes out! ... (and many moons passed) ... wait a minute, the internet still sucks! And now I have the blue screen of death ... (many moons pass and Western civilization blessedly puts Vista in its rearview. A few years later, Bill Gates will lose a class action suit) ... oh, what's this? Chrome? What does it do?

(never looks back)

 

[FamoFunk]

I found FireFox slow and laggy, but like IE for me.

I use Chrome, it's all the ball, fast and responsive, very smooth ,too.

 

[Thundero13]

Here's the thing, my experience with Chrome is that it crashes CONSTANTLY! My experience with Firefox is that it doesn't, therefore, I use Firefox
On another note, dn't mention adblock, I see you're only new but the mods here get annoyed when people talk about it, so in future, just don't

 

[Hamster at Dawn]

Firefox was a must have several years ago before we had Chrome and when IE was actually worse than it is now (hard to imagine, I know) and I've stuck with it. Chrome seems to be a bit faster but it's also quite minimalistic and I've got used to how things work in Firefox so using Chrome can piss me off a bit. Nothing wrong with using Chrome, though - use it if you prefer.

 

[Evil Top Hat]

Well it's a lot faster and safer than internet explorer, not that that's saying very much.

No idea why you're getting problems with it though, probably isn't on firefox's end.

 

[70R4N]

I don't use Opera because it doesn't have a good addblock extension.
I don't use Chrome because i can't change the layout of the icons in the toolbar(refresh, home etc.).
Firefox has both of these things.

 

[basedg0d_a0s]

i've always used firefox so i'm used to it. overall i like it though because it is fast and there is the adblock add-on.

 

[bam13302]

IMO, the difference is visual preference, do you prefer toolbars and spread out menus, or a more compact view, less centered on the browser and more centered on the websites themselves
That is the last common argument i have heard of for firefox
i personally love the larger window of chrome

 

[Alexnader]

It's fully open-source, something which can't be said of Opera, Chrome, Safari or Internet Explorer. This is a big deal for me.

Why? Nothing wrong with more traditionally developed software.

(Opera user right here)

 

[Zukhramm]

It's not IE, and Google wants your soul. So that leaves Firefox and Opera. Now, I prefer Opera but it's not hard to see why Firefox is popular.