Thread:SamwiseFilmore/@comment-25101690-20161212231300

SamwiseFilmore wrote in Thread:313061: Impressive response. Sad that Opera has such a low share, and Chrome so high. I like Opera because it's fast and lightweight, which is not something you can say about FF, even though it does have a lot of redeeming qualities. I couldn't agree more. I always use Firefox as main browser. I work as a web developer, so I have at least 6 different browsers installed on my PC at work, plus lots of text browsers (maybe you as a Linux user know Lynx?). I recently switched to Vivaldi (a fork of Opera), which I would love were it not for all the bugs, so I eventually moved back to Firefox. One of Vivaldi's features that I loved was the mouse gestures, being able to do frequently used actions in a simple swipe instead of having to hit a small button at the top. I got used to these gestures so much that I found myself trying to use them everywhere else, in the file explorer, in other browsers, in the code editor, before realising that I'm not in Vivaldi. Fortunately I found a Firefox plugin for mouse gestures.

That's what I most love about Firefox: The extensibility. You can find a plugin for almost anything you want. My biggest problem with Firefox was that is easily breaks. I often managed to accidentally write websites that are literally infinite in lenght, due to recursion in the website controller, and Firefox never gave up loading it all, freezing the whole system. But again I found a plugin to solve that exact problem and halt loading after 30 seconds. 