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by romseb 2816 days ago
For me it's a long list of missing features (using Mac OS).

* No Chromecast support

* Missing pinch to zoom support (smooth as butter in Chrome). Possible via Add-on "Multi-touch zoom" [1] in Fx but it's very sluggish.

* Youtube is much slower, also some features don't work there, like being able to scroll down when having a fullscreen video open. Can be fixed by installing "Classic Youtube" [2]

* Fullscreen is broken for me, I was not able to hide the address bar and tab bar. I had to install "Fullscreen Plus"

* Some extensions don't work as good, like Dark Reader [3]

* No good alternatives for some Chrome extensions, like "The Great Suspender" [4] or "Vanilla Cookie Manager" (Cookie AutoDelete for Firefox)

* Pdfium performs much better than Firefox' solution. Unfortunately Mozilla abandoned Project Mortar [5].

I could go on with the list. Don't get me wrong, I will still stick to Firefox even though Google Chrome is the superior product performance- and feature-wise.

[1] https://github.com/haxiomic

[2] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/youtube-class...

[3] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/dark-reader/eimadp...

[4] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/the-great-suspende...

[5] https://wiki.mozilla.org/Mortar_Project