The only reason why I prefer chrome over firefox on android is because of the touch gestures on the address bar. Slide down to browse through the hundreds of tabs I have opened, slide left to switch to next tab, slide right for the previous tab. Also, the tabs are represented as a card stack, and browsing it from last to first tab is done through the same gesture as getting into this view. So if I'm looking at a page and want to switch to the first tab 2 or 3 hundred tabs back, I just have to slide my finger fast 3 to 5 times from the address bar down.
If it weren't because of this, I'd probably move to firefox for the ability to have extensions.
> Slide down to browse through the hundreds of tabs I have opened (...)
You have hundreds of tabs opened?
Man, you're doing something wrong. At this point learning how not to have hundreds of tabs opened seems like a bigger improvement than choosing one browser versus another.
It's a weird thing to me too. I've worked with developers that have hundreds of tabs open (not using 99% of them), and they whinge and moan about performance.
I do that all the time. I research something broadly, resulting in a reasonable tab tree. Then I use one or a few of the results, pinboard some of them and keep them open in case I need to reference them again.
Why not? I'm using Firefox. A couple of hundred tabs is no big deal it seems :-)
I only mentioned it because chrome makes it feel like it's not a problem. Tabs are big, wide as the screen, and there's only one column. It's easy to browse and find any tab with a few flicks, even when having hundreds of tabs. Switching through these tabs is fast, way faster than firefox's UI allows, and that's the point I'm getting at, that there's much improvement that can be made over firefox's mobile UI.
On chrome, you put your finger on the address bar and drag it down. The view will convert to the tab stack with your finger on the title of the current tab.
What I don't like about firefox's thumbnail overview is that they're in 2 columns so my eyes have to move in zig-zag if I'm looking for a tab, and they're also too small. Another thing is that websites can set a color for their tab in chrome, and this makes it much easier to identify the different groups of tabs in the stack.
Firefox for Android definitely has some rough edges compared to Chrome, but it is also one of the very few mobile browsers which supports extensions I really hope that whatever they've got coming down the pipeline is up to the task, because it'd be a shame to lose yet another outlet for user customization.
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If it weren't because of this, I'd probably move to firefox for the ability to have extensions.
You have hundreds of tabs opened?
Man, you're doing something wrong. At this point learning how not to have hundreds of tabs opened seems like a bigger improvement than choosing one browser versus another.
Just stop opening so many tabs?
Why not? I'm using Firefox. A couple of hundred tabs is no big deal it seems :-)
Firefox's thumbnails overview works reasonably well for me.
What I don't like about firefox's thumbnail overview is that they're in 2 columns so my eyes have to move in zig-zag if I'm looking for a tab, and they're also too small. Another thing is that websites can set a color for their tab in chrome, and this makes it much easier to identify the different groups of tabs in the stack.