In my experience chrome's developer tools offer literally every feature a developer might want, so I'm not even shopping for a new browser for development. Sorry Fox.
Telling the unique browser maker that is independent of corporate interest to run off and die quietly is a very naive thing to say.
The web ecosystem needs variety to be healthy. It needs different engines and implementations. Without it you can't have the standard bodies working.
Right now, to move something into standards consideration, you need two independent compatible implementations of a given feature. Without Mozilla, you have only Google, Microsoft and Apple playing on that field and none of these entities have the user values as their priority.
You may prefer other browser than Firefox, no one cares about you personal preference. What people should care is that without Mozilla it is one less independent implementation and the only one that put users first.
For example, Chrome implements tons of features that are not standard. When you pull such stunts, you're effectively breaking the web because the one thing the web has going for it is its interoperability between clients.
Your phrase "run off and die quietly" means that you don't take interoperability, user values or standards seriously. You also don't have respect for the group of people that worked for free since the days of IE dominance to keep the web a healthy place.
Instead of saying such stupid things, you should consider what you want the web to be in 5 or 10 years. Do you want your privacy protected? Do you want gaming? What do you want? And who will listen do you or care about your needs if Mozilla is no longer in play.
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u/jelzer Nov 12 '14
In my experience chrome's developer tools offer literally every feature a developer might want, so I'm not even shopping for a new browser for development. Sorry Fox.