Firefox is one of my favorite browsers, but I hate to say it is starting to lag behind. The above title is an article written by Joe Brockmeier from Linux Magazine (Link to original article).
It talks about how Google Chrome, and Safari are probably taking it’s place. I hate to say it, but I do like Google Chrome, and in fact it is my default web browser on all my Windows machines. Though Firefox is still the best browser on Linux for me.
To help bluster my browser, I wanted to point out the changes that are coming. Sort of a Mozilla Firefox 4.0 look and compare to current Chrome.
Extension
The one thing I love about Chrome is the way it does extensions. I don’t necessarily love the extensions that Chrome currently has. They have a long way to go before they have Firefoxs library. But it’s simplisted is wonderful how they install and work. Simple, clean, and interactive.
So what about Firefox. Well they are going to solve that through an update call Jetpack. Jetpack extensions work just like Chrome extensions. In fact I don’t think it would be that hard to port a Chrome extension to Firefox Jetpack or vs versa.
SCREEN SIZE
While I do like how the extensions work in chrome, chromes greatest feature, is browsing screen realistate. It does a a great job of showing more of the webpage and less of the browser. Again though Firefox is working on that two. Check out this picture though to see Firefox 4.0 mockups.
As you can see Firefox has great potential.
STABILITY
The last thing that is great about Chrome, is it’s stability. If my flash crashes it only takes down that one tab. Not the whole browser. But again, this feature is going to also be built into Mozilla Firefox 4.0.
CONCLUSION
While Firefox my be behind, it is close to playing catchup, and I think I will be able to switch back to my browser baby as my full time browser on all OS soon.
