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My absolutely largest issue with Firefox is how settings revert after updates without any notice. It is good that updates are frequent. It is bad that settings revert and defaults are not safe.

I'll never touch Chrome again.

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Out of curiosity, which settings are reverting for you? I can't recall settings reverting but I do occasionally get the "running slow" prompt to blow away my profile and start from scratch.

If anything, I've noticed more and more settings are getting pushed into Sync and automatically propagate across instances or upon new installation. Which is nice.

Recently i was promoted to refresh my ff settings, and upon restarting, all my settings and plugins were set back up 0. Not a pleasant experience rebuilding my ff instance, but i guess it's better now than before.

Yup, it's not pleasant but thankfully, apart from NTLM settings, I've managed to remove most of my custom about:config settings I had used over the years, so apart from dragging Add-On icons into the Overflow Menu I don't have much customization to do.

I had an issue with v73 being incompatible with whatever security software my Work PC was running and the main rendering thread crashing. After trying numerous things including rolling back to v72 and refreshing my profile, I came across a bug indicating it was scheduled to be fixed in an upcoming release which turned out to be v73.0.1 thankfully.

That's the first time I can recall where Firefox did me wrong.

There is a way to get those settings back.

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