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RandomException | 8 years ago

Except that Chrome can never turn into a new IE6. It keeps updating automatically, it respects the standards and is nice to use. Oh, and it isn't installed automatically on Windows or Mac. It also is made by a company whose business is based on Internet services - not by a company that used to mainly compete on a completely different area of software business.

It's an entirely different thing to just create a great product that people want to use instead of "being forced to" use. Firefox has been dragging itself behind for a long time and was nowhere near enough competitive as a whole package. Quantum has changed things but there are still some rough edges that need polishing (e.g. sometimes it just likes to freeze the tab completely). Chrome's web development tools are IMO top notch and I'd say it is the biggest reason why all the development happens on Chrome.

PS. This message is written on Firefox Quantum.

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tscs37|8 years ago

>it respects the standards

What about the time they broke passive event listeners for no other reason than "we say so"?

rkeene2|8 years ago

Same for when they broke HTTPS support because "we say so". The proper solution of updating the RFC is too slow for them.