After many years, I recently ditched @googlechrome and switched back to @firefox, and it's wonderful. So wonderful in fact, that I feel compelled to tweet about it.
Here are some of the things that I love about it…
Firstly, you can send a tab to your phone (or vice versa), which is really handy.
I'm sure Chrome used to have this, and then they scrapped it 🤷♂️
Secondly, the "awesome bar". Remember the awesome bar? It's like Chrome's address bar but provides waaay better suggestions from your history.
That article you read last week… about carrots, but you can't recall the title or the site it was on 🤔.The awesome bar will find it.
Oh and you can choose to store your browsing history for more than 3 months, which Chrome won't let you do.
This makes the awesome bar more awesome. And the more awesome it is the less you feel the need to keep lots of tabs open or even bookmark things. Just awesome bar it later
"Multi-account containers" - allows you to separate the cookies of different tabs, so you can have multiple logins for the same site or simply keep parts of your online life separate.
Similar to Chrome's Profiles. But…
…Firefox lets you assign a website to automatically always open in a certain container.
Game changer.
Facebook Container (slightly different concept). Prevents Facebook from tracking you across the web. Otherwise Facebook does this, even if you don't have a Facebook account or aren't logged into it.
A bunch of other great privacy tools, such as tracking protection, built in as standard.
Then we come to the more subtle features, which are what REALLY make me love it…
If you use the tab key to move through the fields in a form, when you tab back to a textarea that you've previously typed into, it puts your cursor back in the same place within the text 😍.
It has an option to switch to new tabs when you open them. No more using your mouse to select that new tab 300 times a day. Whether you've got this option enabled or not, holding the shift key reverses it.
Chrome doesn't provide this, not even via an extension (that I can find).
Switching between tabs with ctrl+tab cycles through them in the *most recently used* order, like it damn well should do.
Again, even extensions can't provide this behaviour in Chrome.
Firefox seems to automatically suspend tabs for you to save memory. And the overall speed and performance is great.
I'm so glad I switched back to #Firefox.
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