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This attitude from the Mozilla crew has convinced me to try switching from Chrome for a week. (I understand that these latest features aren't yet available in the normal releases)

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I switched completely to Firefox on my work computer. Don't miss Chrome at all.

Me too. I am absolutely happy with Firefox after switching about 6 months ago. I don’t miss anything.

I think current Firefox has audio/video autoplay controls, and in my experience they're wonderful compared to Chrome's. A one-time popup that lets you easily control it per-site. Already enough to make me prefer it.

I recently switched from chrome being my daily browser to firefox...and the only thing that firefox is not great at is "save to pdf" (I would add some other minor printing aspects, but honestly i don't print much of anything anymore from a browser - so no impact for me). Besides "save to pdf"/printing, i have no use/need for going back to chrome. I encourage you to try out firefox and see if you have an equally positive experience.

Thoughts on Brave browser?

Brave's good but since it's a wrapper around Chromium, you're still supporting Google control over the Web.

This sort of reasoning is fallacious. Use of Chrome’s renderer is not specifically advantageous to Google until/unless they attempt to leverage it to break web standards, which is not their general policy (Widevine concessions to content creators notwithstanding), just as use of WebKit is not specifically advantageous to Apple, nor is Node’s use of v8, et c.

Fact is, Brave is, as I understand it, a system that intends to pay a user to see ads (via replacement) - although they may have pivoted (again?) away from that. It’s not an anti-tracking or anti-advertising effort.

Except Google already ships bugs in their products to non-Chromium browsers (see YouTube, Google Docs, etc.) By using a Chromium-based browser you facilitate this anticompetitive behavior.

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