PSA: if you are not already using it, and you care about the future of humanity, then give Firefox a(nother) go. Its actually quite good these days.
Containers is a game-changer, paired with Sync I've been able to easily segregate work, personal, and client environments with ease. I work for many large organisations under NDA at any one time - and being able to colour-code and name my tabs has been invaluable to me. Also the Dev Tools, are great for debugging or sniffing traffic. I'm not a web developer but often need to debug client implementations that consume API's and it's just as good as Chrome. (Imagine that, FireBug used to be the standard, then Chrome came along and became "just as good", now Firefox has natively caught up.)
Finally - speed. Quantum finally killed Chrome's performance for me, and they've finally caught up on power-consumption on MacOS which as someone who regularly has to take multi-hour flights without charge ports available is a god-send.
The DRM issues piss me off, but it's the modern version of browser-restrictive Flash or Silverlight apps. I'll wait for someone else to get fucked off enough to create a bypass for Firefox, or maybe I'll get to a stage where I develop something to do so.
Chrome is dead, long live Firefox.
So, Firefox it is for me.
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As well file and custom URIs are completely broken when installed as a snap. I cannot view any file on my system by manually typing in file://path/to/file whereas the uri functions fine in chrome. Custom application URIs require manually setting Firefox to open them in the given application, which is actually non trivial since it can't seem to find any application in the default browser, and it doesn't respect any system configuration.
Meanwhile chrome just works. These are issues I have only with Firefox on some installations, I can't seem to recreate them all the time.
Imported my passwords and bookmarks and the transition couldn't have been smoother. I still have Chrome installed but haven't opened it more than a handful of times since.
What about your experience hasn't been great?
I use KeepPassXC, but Firefox PW is streamlined very well.
It's not my computer either - my work PC, at least, is a powerhouse.
Also, I find Chrome's dev tools to be marginally better - but I'm not sure if that's just my familiarity with them over Firefox's.
Quick edit: there are some other problems I have with Firefox, but they're all relatively minor and don't bother me nearly as much as the random slowdowns and short freezes.
That said, I don't think I use it much more often that I had to use `chrome:restart` when I had to use chrome.
Too much.
Web:
- Syncing:
1. Very often hangs on "slow" networks. Syncs for minutes at a time and stops the browser from loading new pages (annoying)
2. Mangles bookmarks. Merges folders I don't want merged and adds bookmarks I've deleted before
- RAM creep
1. Memory leak? Firefox consistently takes up more and more memory the longer I use it
2. Poor suspend/dump functionality on Linux. If you have multiple tabs open, Firefox can quickly freeze your entire system (swap makes no difference). I have to use a 3rd party addon to have inactive tabs "suspended" so my system doesn't freeze
3. Unlike chrome, I don't think Firefox runs seperate processes for tabs. OOM killer never triggers.
- Slow
1. It's just slow. Even on a great laptop with a gigabit connection, it's slow.
- Long startup (self-explanatory)
On desktop it isn't compatible with physical smartcards, so it is impossible to do my job using Firefox or a browser with an engine besides Blink.
I was wanting to contribute code but haven't found time for it yet.
However, what I can stand even less is a Blink monoculture and the web's standards being controlled by a single entity.
The real reason I switched to Firefox was because Google intends to make API deprecations to WebExtensions to make uBlock Origin incompatible, probably in order to retain more revenue in their ad business. At that point I would be forced to switch in the future anyway, so I decided to get used to Firefox's warts early on.
The exposes about Chrome automatically signing you in in the browser if you sign in with YouTube happened afterward, and I only felt more justified in switching. As a side note, I can no longer find the "identity consistency between browser and cookie jar" toggle that allows disabling this anymore.
My usage of Firefox is for political, not technical, reasons.
I'm using Ubuntu 14.04, and this has been happening consistently for the last 5+ years.
Every. single. goshdarn. effing. firefox. release.
(sorry just wanted to vent. I've tried every solution I could find on askubuntu, stackoverflow, what not. Nothing fixes it. I know I should be filing a bug report, and/or upgrading my OS, but I don't have the time, patience to deal with that. I need to finish school first.).
Might help updating to a modern version of Ubuntu with a modern kernel and modern (and less buggy) GPU drivers?
Browsers are increasingly using GPU-acceleration these days. If your GPU drivers are buggy, that can probably cause a whole lot of “fun”.
Although I've experienced very rare crashes, like I have with Chrome/Chromium, my experience is that Firefox is stable and does everything I need, including some basic web dev/debug.