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What does email have to do with switching browsers? Last I heard Gmail also works on Firefox.

Google uses non-standard extensions that only Chrome supports for Gmail and Youtube.

For neutral email apps, Firefox runs perfectly fine. For Gmail, it will be slightly slower than Chrome.

It's infuriating how they slow their stuff on Firefox but send optimized stuff to IE/Edge.

Gmail is still okay once past the 2-3s loading but on YT it really test your patience every time you click on something.

I find the YouTube Classic extension helps with that[1].

P.S. But we should all switch to PeerTube or a similar effort eventually.

Oh wow, I did not know that. I guess that's one way to give a few million Gmail users a reason to install Chrome...