Microsoft proves the critics right: We’re heading toward a Chrome-only Web
I&#x27;ve made multiple attempts recently to switch to Firefox as my primary browser, but I never could stick with it.<p>1) It&#x27;s simply not as responsive. They&#x27;ve worked really hard to keep up with Chrome, and I respect that, and the recent overhaul did make a big difference. But Chrome just feels like a piece of physical machinery, where Firefox still feels like a piece of software.<p>2) The dev tools are just not quite as good. As with general performance, they&#x27;ve always been very close, but there&#x27;s just something about them that&#x27;s off. Enough to disrupt my work.<p>3) Firefox mobile, at least on Android, has weird high-friction scrolling behavior that doesn&#x27;t match the rest of the OS and feels terrible, and there&#x27;s no way to turn it off.<p>I use Firefox for casual browsing on my gaming desktop, but that&#x27;s about it. I&#x27;m rooting for them, but there are just improvements that still need to be made.<p>On the bright side, Chromium is 99% OSS (as opposed to Android, which is like 70% OSS). I think a fork could become a competitor if Google took the project in a direction that was just really egregiously bad. Let us not forget that Chrome&#x27;s rendering engine, Blink, was itself a fork of Safari&#x27;s WebKit.