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That page is just missing one critical thing: 4. Migrate my extensions.

It would be great if they developed a graph mapping Chrome extensions to Mozilla equivalents. Then the user could confirm installation of the ones with 1:1 parity, like LastPass, allow users to select similar extensions, or skip installing an equivalent.

There are some Chrome-Exclusive extensions that keep me hooked. That and Firefox’s Storage inspector is terrible, there isn’t a native way to clear localstorage during development.

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Have you looked into Chrome Store Foxified? It automates the conversion, signing, and installation of extensions from the Chrome Web Store into Firefox. https://github.com/Noitidart/Chrome-Store-Foxified (It wasn’t working for a while but it seems that a fix might have finally been discovered.)

Have you checked out Brave browser?

Fork of Chrome and most if not all Google extensions work.

https://brave.com/

Once again, switching to a fork of Chrome doesn't really help anything, unless you believe that the Brave devs have the will and manpower to actually maintain a hard form of Chromium that would re-enable and maintain features disabled upstream in the long term.

It's like ditching Facebook for Instagram.

Last time I checked Brave looked awful on 4k screen on linux Kde, may be 6 months back. Have they fixed it? I wanted to like it so much but no luck :-(

Seems fine on my imac retina screen and retina mbp.

To be honest all 11 of the extensions I used day on chrome are available and working on Firefox in 2019 compared to a few years back.

My difficulty is in the other direction. In FF I really rely on TreeStyleTab, and there's no decent alternative in Chrome.

> That and Firefox’s Storage inspector is terrible, there isn’t a native way to clear localstorage during development.

While I agree that the inspector could be improved, this is false. Dev tools > Storage tab > Expand local storage > Select domain > Right click a key/value > Select "Delete all". Done.

Thanks for clarifying that- you are correct. That doesn't seem to work on cache domains, but if I scroll down to other types of storage I can indeed delete items all at once or individually. When I tried that now it wasn't repainting so it appeared to have no effect, but when I refreshed within the Storage inspector the data was gone. When I refresh the page, repainting after deleting started working as expected. Weird.

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