Default Firefox user here, although I do have Chrome installed on many of my machines. All around me people are now (or have been for some time) Chrome users. I just cannot make the switch. I don't know why - maybe it's the sharp angled tab UI, maybe it's the slightly 'off' font rendering. Maybe I don't trust google. Whatever it is, I keep using Firefox as my main Browser, and mostly I'm happy.
A few things would make my Firefox life much easier though:
- The ability to launch multiple Firefoxs with the same profile, but completely separate processes. So when one Firefox crashes, the others are left alone. At the moment, no matter how many Firefox windows you have open, they are all children of the first Firefox you started.
- an equivalent of Chromes --APP=[URL] start up parameter (and the accompanying no-url-bar, custom icon, and unique window location/size settings) - this is a wonderful feature for web apps, and effectively transforms them into (almost) desktop apps in appearance. If firefox had that, I'd be over the moon.
- A way of allocating a session when you start it for 'X project' and then be able to save off all those tabs in one action to a folder or tab 'startup list'. I'd like this to be native, and not an add-on I'd have to keep track of or suffer incompatibilities when the maintainer has lost interest in it.
Finally, now that Windows and Linux roll with good default Browsers, and that Firefox (in the main) is a manual install, I can't see it recouping its percentage share. It feels like the slow death of the original Opera, all over again.
> - A way of allocating a session when you start it for 'X project' and then be able to save off all those tabs in one action to a folder or tab 'startup list'.
The existing "Bookmark all tabs" option that creates a bookmark folder from all the tabs in a window and the existing option to open all the tabs in a bookmark folder sort of address this use case, unless 'X project' needs multiple windows...
A few things would make my Firefox life much easier though:
- The ability to launch multiple Firefoxs with the same profile, but completely separate processes. So when one Firefox crashes, the others are left alone. At the moment, no matter how many Firefox windows you have open, they are all children of the first Firefox you started.
- an equivalent of Chromes --APP=[URL] start up parameter (and the accompanying no-url-bar, custom icon, and unique window location/size settings) - this is a wonderful feature for web apps, and effectively transforms them into (almost) desktop apps in appearance. If firefox had that, I'd be over the moon.
- A way of allocating a session when you start it for 'X project' and then be able to save off all those tabs in one action to a folder or tab 'startup list'. I'd like this to be native, and not an add-on I'd have to keep track of or suffer incompatibilities when the maintainer has lost interest in it.
Finally, now that Windows and Linux roll with good default Browsers, and that Firefox (in the main) is a manual install, I can't see it recouping its percentage share. It feels like the slow death of the original Opera, all over again.