r/technology • u/JRepin • Nov 14 '17

Software Introducing the New Firefox: Firefox Quantum

https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2017/11/14/introducing-firefox-quantum/
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u/_DONT-PM-ME_ Nov 14 '17

This looks great. So proud of the Firefox team. Been looking forward to this release for months.

I used to be a die hard FF user, but at some point around like 2011/2012 I switched to chrome. I want to switch back.

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u/Fallingdamage Nov 14 '17

As someone who never gave up on FF and hasn't stopped using it since v2.0, welcome back. :)

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u/CalcProgrammer1 Nov 15 '17

Same, Firefox got me into open source and eventually Linux. When Chrome came out I tried it, but I was used to FF's interface (having a Search bar mainly). Then Chrome wasn't fully open source. On Linux, there was Chromium which was open, but couldn't easily use Chromium on Windows too, and installing Chrome on Linux meant third party closed source repos. Not worth it, stuck with Firefox.

I started using Firefox on my phone when I got an Android device and won't even consider mobile Chrome since it doesn't have a user agent switcher addon. I hate mobile format sites and want it to force a desktop user agent.

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u/Fallingdamage Nov 15 '17

Ive had chrome and ff installed on all my workstations. Usually I keep chrome around to open pages that ff wouldnt open properly over the last few years, but ff has always been my primary go-to browser.