Mainly because it's look and feel. I'm not a "power user". Chrome just looks lightweight and feels fast. The only browser that is similar in these aspects is Safari.
Firefox looks bad. For example:
- the spacing between the home button and the search bar
- why there's a line at the top of the current tab? The way Chrome distinguishes the current tab looks "better""
- the "back", "forward" and "refresh" buttons look big
Right click the open space and select "Customize...", or "Customize Toolbar" from the menu, and you can change the button sizes a bit and remove those default spacers.
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Mainly because it's look and feel. I'm not a "power user". Chrome just looks lightweight and feels fast. The only browser that is similar in these aspects is Safari.
Firefox looks bad. For example:
- the spacing between the home button and the search bar
- why there's a line at the top of the current tab? The way Chrome distinguishes the current tab looks "better""
- the "back", "forward" and "refresh" buttons look big
Right click the open space and select "Customize...", or "Customize Toolbar" from the menu, and you can change the button sizes a bit and remove those default spacers.
The people at Firefox who has sacrificed so much customizability in favour of "usability" and "good default experience" should read this :-/
For me it is still OK, my point is that it used to be possible to make it smashing.