Ask HN: Why continue to use Firefox?

49 points

9 years ago

Now that Firefox's UI is becoming more and more like Chrome's, why should anyone continue to use Firefox?

I'm thinking the reasons might have something to do with:

  - Lower memory usage compared to Chrome [1]
  - Increasingly more of it being written in a fast and memory-safe language, Rust [2]
  - Not belonging to a for-profit company [3]

Would also be nice to know what plans Mozilla has for Firefox in the longer term. Once Firefox becomes a near Chrome clone written in Rust, what comes next?

[1] - https://blog.mozilla.org/firefox/firefox-uses-less-memory-chrome-edge-safari/

[2] - https://wiki.mozilla.org/Oxidation

[3] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla

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