If 'privacy now' is the issue, both the pine and fir are pretty slow growing. What you plant is what you get for quite awhile.

In terms of a choice: Pine and fir tend to prefer different locations. In Ontario, spruce and fir tend to grow naturally further north than pine. We're lucky to live in a transition area where everything grows. Maybe your location doesn't have a strong preference for pine or fir, but I'd stick with any dominant tree in your area.

Myself, I'd rather look at white pine than fir. Since these both are large trees, especially the Western White Pine, eventually that's all you'd be looking at. However, fir keep their branches close to the ground while pine loose theirs to form a crown. Eventually the pine crowns would be higher than the view of your neighbours. Coastal Douglas does tend to crown a bit, but Rocky Mountain Douglas keep branches right to the ground.

An alternative might be to put in some aspen and plant evergreen beneath them. The aspen will grow fast and provide more immediate privacy, but eventually the evergreen would take over. The deer would prefer browsing on aspen anyway. I'm not sure whether pine or fir samplings do better under aspen. We have pine, fir and spruce growing below our birch and poplars.

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