Google Chrome vs Mozilla Firefox

By logging into Chrome using a Google account it's possible to sync history, extensions, passwords, bookmarks and other settings between devices. This makes it great for anyone working with multiple devices as it allows experiencing consistent context when in the browser.

For example, the address bar is also the search bar. Google calls it Omnibox.

Chrome comes with built-in developer tools, making testing and enhancing web pages simpler for those of us involved in working with such technologies. As well as being beneficial to developers, this also has some benefit to non-technical users; in that by making testing simpler for developers those developers are more likely to use Chrome for their tests, and can spend more time making improvements over investigating underlying causes of issues.

There are far more available on this browser than any other, and that may matter for some.

According to TopTen Reviews, Chrome is currently one of the best performing browsers for initial (cold) startup, average startup, and navigation times. Works very well with the uBlock Origin adblocker.

Chrome updates in the background ensuring you're always on the latest version. This makes it much more likely that sites will work on your browser, since (almost) all Chrome users will be running exactly the same version.

You can have multiple Chromes with different accounts logged at the same time. And it is really easy to manage different accounts.

Unlike Firefox, Google Chrome can keep its fast performance regardless of how many extensions are installed. With more than 10 extensions Firefox gets slower and slower in a geometric progression rate. Google Chrome doesn't care how many extensions the user has installed - 3 or 133 it still performs great.

Each of the managed users can have their own configuration (themes, extensions, ...)

It uses the blink rendering engine which has removed many legacy khtml/webkit code to be much lighter and faster.

Unlike those various unofficial Chromium builds, there is only one distributor, so all Chrome releases follow the same standards.

Every tab runs as their own process, so if one crashes or becomes unresponsive, the whole browser isn't affected.

Chrome uses online services to collect our data and improve our browser experience. But this also means it spies on you.

Chromium is open source, except the proprietary media codecs like AAC, H.264, MP3 and Adobe Flash, that can't be legally open-sourced.

As of March 2015, Chrome is the most popular browser on the internet, with a 43.9% - 63.7% market share, Its rendering engine Blink is also the most used rendering engine and used in many products including: Opera, Vivaldi, Qt, Brave, Steam or Electron meaning most developers will be testing their sites against this browser to ensure compatibility.

Whilst Chrome is based on the open source browser Chromium, Google reviews this code and build on top of it. This means it takes (and contributes to) a number of the benefits of the open source model whilst having the resources, support and investment of a major company.

Includes support for many licensed unfree media formats.

Google Chrome comes with its own flashplayer and the most common multimedia codecs so you don't have to worry that they are outdated nor do you need to install them as a third party package.

Firefox scores strongly on HTML5 feature support.
Though not as strongly as Chromium/Chrome browsers do.

Firefox Sync is an optional feature in Firefox that allows syncing bookmarks, passwords, and add-ons between devices.

Firefox is available as a free download. All Mozilla software is licensed under the Mozilla Public License. Instructions on how to obtain the source code can be found here.

Mozilla is one of the first browsers that advocates privacy. They believe that internet should be in the user's control and not those who run the websites, and so they give tools inside the browser to make the user be more in control.

The built-in developer tools have been merged with the popular FireBug extension since FF57.

The Firefox Quantum update (FF57) greatly increases the render speed and general performance of the browser, by taking better advantage of the user's hardware.

Reader View in Firefox allows users to read an article without any distractions by removing ads, unrelated elements and other distractive objects (similar to Microsoft Edge's Reading Mode and Safari's reader mode).

Firefox uses its own rendering engine (called Gecko), instead of Google-controlled Blink like the vast majority of other browsers.

With new integrations focused on security and performance, Firefox is faster and less likely to have problems during use than ever before.

Open Source means that you can see the source code. So everybody even if they don't work for Mozilla is able to look what the browser does in the background. So you can be 100% sure that Firefox doesn't have hidden "spy features" unlike Google Chrome.

Font rasterizing on Windows is much better than in competitors. Even smaller text is clear and contrast.

Firefox is automatically updated on the platforms where it makes sense.

Firefox 57 (Quantum) and newer uses less resources than ever. It is proven with benchmark done by AppleInsider.

Beyond the toolbar and tabs, it darkens UI elements such as the URL-bar, pop-downs, new-tab page and more.

Great library of add-ons.

Firefox is one of the few browsers that you can tag your bookmarks. You can view a list of tags and can search your bookmarks in the address bar with tags.

It's not dependent on Google.

Powerful screenshot tool built right into the browser.

The Mozilla Manifesto outlines the company's mission and principles. Paraphrasing, they want the Internet to be a free and open resource, and to enable individuals to get the best use of that resource. They do this by creating open source software to which anyone may contribute, so long as such contributions fit with their principles (both ethical and technical).

An enormous number of add-ons.

In order to add an open page to the bookmark bar, the tab can be dragged down and is added immediately.

Blocks tracking cookies, finger print scanners and Cryptominers by default. Can be changed to the user's individual needs.

Firefox used to be a trailer in memory usage, but as of 2017 it's less hungry for memory than competitors like Edge, Chrome, Safari and Opera.

Firefox Reader Mode includes Narrate, a feature that adds text-to-speech functionality to the browser.

FF experiments are Mozilla projects available from FF Test Pilot, such as Firefox Colour, witch lets you customise your browser theme to your liking!

Helps store your usernames and passwords. Lockwise also lets you know if any of the sites you have login details for have had their (and potentially your) data leaked!

The only web browser that only preloads entire HTML5 video which is useful for slow internet.

Firefox has a solid mobile app.

Firefox comes with built-in Pocket integration that can allow users to quickly save the article for a read it later function to easily find any articles saved in Pocket from various sources and devices.

Many Linux distributions come preinstalled with Mozilla Firefox

Master about:config and uBlock Origin, and all Firefox-based browsers will be yours.

The newer versions of it will soon use WebRender to render webpages, which'll make it much more efficient by utilizing GPU to paint webpages.

UI is better than any other chromium-based browser.