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by wirddin 3423 days ago
Off-topic but why do you (still) use Firefox? Is it speed? Because I have tried switching just to come back to Chrome.
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For me it's the tab overflow behavior: Firefox has the left/right arrows and a dropdown menu, while Chrome just has tiny tabs: http://www.ghacks.net/2013/11/07/dealing-google-chromes-tab-.... And I have 31 tabs open now (sometimes 200+) so it would be a daily problem.
> I have 31 tabs open now (sometimes 200+) each this level How do you achieve this? Firefox for me tends to crash long before I reach this level
Not parent, but I've had well over two thousand tabs in Firefox + Tree Style Tabs before. They're usually accumulated over a number of sessions. If you don't open a tab, the page itself isn't actually loader yet, so very, very rarely are more than 100 or so actually loaded. Every now I'll go through and cull, but my browsing experience is never really inhibited by them.

For me it's 100% how I browse now, I don't think I could go back. I only open links in new tabs (which places them as branches in the tree) and it's a wonderfully useful spatial/temporal way of showing history, which is also saved between sessions (so bookmarks don't really replace them)

To avoid google snooping. I find that the combination of Firefox and DuckDuckGo serves 99% of my needs and protects my privacy
Someone has already mentioned it. I use Firefox because OSS, privacy, and memory consumption. From my experience, Chrome browser consumes more memory than Firefox. I know, for better result of web page, Chrome wins.

Eventhough, Firefox is my main browser. I still use Chrome browser when I need to debug a JavaScript program.

Anyway, why did you come back to Chrome?