If you have jailbroken your iPhone, use any of the many Cydia packages that do just that. If you haven't... why not?!

On rooted Android, AdAway.

I think Evernote was also intended to solve this. Unfortunately, it is also proprietary. So, there is definitely demand for this.

Absolutely, this is an actual dealbreaker. If I can't tweak my blog, I'm not doing one.

Then again, I suppose I'm not part of the intended audience.

Also, a lot of it is probably in the hands of a few early miners (including Satoshi) who are never using it, and some more has been lost forever.

He usually mentions that this is for personal reasons that only apply to himself. No tinfoil hat here (at least not openly). http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Richard_Stallman#On_web_browsin...

Fun fact: back in 2005, France had a law proposal to ban all free software and VLC was under threat. http://www.fsffrance.org/news/article2005-11-25.en.html

Please consider switching back to FF, at least for the same reasons, if not for all the other ones (FOSS, no backdoors and so on). If you want the same look as Chrome, try the UX nightlies. Butter smooth too. Best browser ever.

Obviously, it's an approximation. I'm sure you could very easily fit everyone you know in either of these buckets if you had to. And it's pretty accurate.

Citation needed, otherwise all sweeping generalizations are valid based on opinion alone.

People are pretty dynamic, even if common traits exist (and "knowledge / seeking knowledge" is not citable), its a dumb claim.

I too wish it had split processes (although I haven't had a freeze in months), but other than that it beats Chrome in every single way. I am not affected by your UI problems, and I install extensions every other week so I'm not bothered.

So, yeah, I guess you didn't really try. Perhaps you're just attached to Chrome.

How do you get rid of Firefox's windows decorations in Linux? All I could find was for Windows, except one gnome-based extension which is known not to work reliably.

Also, checking for updates when I start my browser is the worst possible time UI-wise. I start my browser when the site I want to visit is at my fingertips, and my working memory is fading as I am waiting for my computer. How do you customize this away?

Sure, the bookmarks bar being always-visible or never-visible is a minor defect, but it is still worse than Chrome's show-in-new-tabs behavior. Showing menu bars and window decorations by default shows bad judgement, but indeed that wasn't the reason I couldn't stay with Firefox. It felt slower, had annoying wasteful window decorations, started with annoying extension version checks, and let bad web apps interfere with all my tabs.

Do you have actual responses for my actual points besides "you didn't really try"?

Maybe multi-process is the reason... I've recently started using Chrome more on my sub-notebook because Firefox gets really choppy even though it has lower memory usage. Perhaps the explanation is Chrome can be scheduled to all four of my 1GHz CPU cores, as compared to Firefox which will be on just one?

Nope. Threads can use multiple cores as well. No need to launch separate process for it.

Ah yes, of course. I should have remembered that. So Firefox is multi-threaded now?

As far as I know, it has always been. Unlike javascript which usually runs in a single thread, the browser itself is free to use as many background threads as it wants to load resources, render graphics etc. Only javascript is usually run as single thread per tab (unless the webpage uses web workers).

At least they get to solve the problems. You can't do that with closed OSs. Same goes for the cloud vs. your own server.