What web browser do you use? If I had to put money on it, I would guess Google Chrome. I don’t know a single person outside of work who uses anything other than Google Chrome. Google Chrome holds the largest usage share of any web browser. Remember Firefox? It used to be one of the must-have web browsers before Google Chrome. Mozilla has recently updated to Firefox Quantum and I’m not going to lie, it is pretty dope. Here are five reasons you may want to switch over to Firefox Quantum.
1. Screenshot Feature
Taking screenshots on a PC sucks compared to a MacBook. You have to open Snipping Tool and click around multiple times, just to take a simple screenshot. It’s annoying to have to search “Snipping Tool” each time you want to take a screenshot. You can add a shortcut key, but all it does is open up Snipping Tool. FireFox Quantum added a super useful “Take a Screenshot” feature, where you can quickly take a screenshot of whatever is on your browser. Simply drag on the region you want to screenshot or just take a screenshot of the full page. You can download the screenshot and save it to wherever you please or you can save it to “My Shots” in Firefo, where it can be stored for any length of time. More browsers need to implement this.
2. One-Click Search Engine
Suppose you want to search for a new iPhone case on Amazon. You can either go to www.Amazon.com and search “iPhone case” or you can type “iPhone case” and scroll down to the Amazon link. Firefox Quantum allows you to choose whatever search engine you want to use to look up your desired topic. This means you can simply type “iPhone case” into the search bar in Firefox Quantum and then click on the Amazon icon to search directly on Amazon. Other search engines include Yahoo, Google, Bing, eBay, Twitter, Wikipedia, etc.
3. Performance
Are you that person who has twenty tabs open at all times? My roommate is and he complains about how slow his computer gets all the time. Google Chrome can be a huge memory hog, which in turn slows down your computer’s performance. Mozilla claims that Firefox is 30% lighter than Chrome, which means more space for your computer to run smoothly. Whether you have 10 of 100 tabs, this shouldn’t affect your browsing experience. I’ve been using Firefox Quantum for the past week and it is blazing fast. Many people complained about the older version of Firefox being incredibly slow. This new version blows it out of the water at twice the speed it was before.
4. Customization
Firefox Quantum has a clean, modern look and is full of customizable options. You can customize your favorite items and add them to your tool bar. These features include Downloads, Email Link, Print, Save Page, Subscribe, etc. You can personalize your Firefox by adding new themes or install add-ons that make the browsing experience much better. A popular add-on is the Block ads from uBlock Origin that enforces thousands of content filter without using a ton of memory.
5. Pocket
Have you come across an article that you want to read, but you can’t at the moment? Pocket allows you to save links, articles, videos, or webpages to your Pocket account with a single click. All you have to do is find a page you want to save for later and click the Pocket button located in the address bar. You can find your saved item by going to Library and selecting “View Pocket List”. You can also pin Pocket to your address bar.
I thought I’d never say this, but Firefox is pretty awesome. If you know me, you know how big of a statement that is. I’ve been forced to use Firefox at work because of some bugs that don’t allow me to use Chrome. The Firefox Quantum update is seriously making me consider switching my default web browser. The main reason I am tied down is because I have all my Gmail accounts set up on Chrome and I frequently use Google Drive so it makes sense to stay on Google Chrome. If you’re not married to the Google ecosystem, go ahead and check out Firefox Quantum. Let us know below what you think about Firefox.
Really? Firefox quantum is dope?
The one click search has been in chrome for year and guess what, they do it better. You just enter the search term of your choosing and press enter and there they are all the search results from the search engine of you choosing.
The screenshot feature common learn to use the right key combinanations and you can get any screenshot you like besides maybe if you want to have part of webpage or screen. nothing you cannot do by openeing the schreenshot and pasting it in an image editor to crop as you like or need.
Prerformance: it is clear that you haven’t used firefox for a few weeks; At first it is indeed very fast. but after a few weeks once you have five or six tabs open it starts to work erratically. You have to click links several times before there is a very slow reaction, pages stay white for several seconds when switching to a tab, none of the images show… , On top of that it is a memory hog the likes of which have not been seen since the worst day’s of chrome.
I’m not the only one in these findings, do a search, one click or other, and see the amount of people that complain about the slowness. It was like that when it came out in the beginning of November and it still is like this today with no resolve in sight.
If you want to do reviews do an honest one. We have way too many puff pieces on the internet already.