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A question for HN readers that use Chrome: why did you choose that? The readers here seems like the ideal crowd of Firefox users.

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Better energy efficiency

Superior video playback

Allows 2 simultaneous dictionaries

Doesn't show ads when I open a new tab

Pinch to zoom

They haven't forgotten to renew certificates so far

Smooth Gmail

Never crashed on my machine vs Firefox used to crash once a day

Superior dev tools

Doesn't cause high cpu usage in some sites like Twitch

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I'll revisit my options when/if Chrome breaks uBlock Origin on stable

Thank you for the reply, I guess it's a matter of usage/machine, since I have none of the issues you mentioned.

I switched from Firefox to Chrome right after I discovered that malware on Firefox had changed so many about:config settings that I couldn't untangle my own changes to about:config from the changed made by the malware.

That and my having seen repeated assertion by HN user tptacek that Chrome's security team is the second best in the industry (behind only the iOS security team).

Well, that and the lack of any signs that Mozilla management was prioritizing improving Firefox's resistance to malware. (Mozilla's interest in using Rust I saw as a positive sign, but not particularly directly relevant to the question.) At the time, one of Mozilla's priorities was introducing a new mobile OS.

I use Firefox at home, but I use Chrome at work. I'm mostly just trialling Firefox at home for now.

I've swapped to Firefox before, but there's always things that annoy me every time I do.

Having things like the Bookmark Manager and the History panels as separate windows seems to get in the way, particularly when the interface is usually worse. I much prefer Chrome's history tab, often for no other reason than it's sorted by date instead of alphabetical. In Firefox, I seem to have to use the separate history window to sort it that way. Even if it is fixable, you would have to spend a few minutes working it out, which is a problem.

Then there's just small stuff that gets in the way. One thing that happened to me recently was that I wanted to look at a background image for a div. You can't right click and open in a new tab for these, so I inspected it in the dev tools, and in the style panel, there's a link there, but you can't click on it. In Chrome, you can right click on it and go "Open in New Tab", in Firefox, the closest option is just "Copy URL" - which means I have to open a new tab and paste it in.

Chrome just in general seems to have a better UI/UX.

- Still faster and snappier.

- Better track record of security, better security architecture overall. (Firefox is getting better, but not there yet)

- Very smooth account sync across devices and platforms.

- Credit card payments with Google pay is very convenient.

- Good spell checker

- Good Google integration overall.

- Development tools

- Crashes are very rare.

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