Hows firefox doing these days?
I've not really used it since it used to run out of memory every few hours, did try it again after they rewrote everything but it was really buggy with half the sites I frequent not working.
Other than that, Firefox on the Mac is consistently easier on the fans than Chrome, and unlike Chrome, I almost never get runaway processes.
Web pages are also as snappy as Chrome. If a page feels slow, I often open it in Chrome to compare, just out of curiosity. It used to be that Chrome would struggle less with these pages, but FF seems to have caught up in the past year or so.
Pro-tip: if you have uBlock Origin installed, disable all other extensions that are using EasyList, because they undermine uBO and visibly slow down the page. In Chrome too.
N.b Firefox’s built in tracking protections don’t interfere.
All addons I was using before the rewrite are back again or not necessary anymore because other addons replaced their functionality.
Could you explain what you mean by this? Firefox does have profiles, and more than one can be active at a time. (There's also the newer containers feature which allows further compartmentalization.)
I heavily use the firefox containers feature which is awesome.
I think Firefox can do at least these three. You can permanently enable the profile manager on application startup (it's not in an about: page). You can also make shortcuts on your desktop / taskbar / etc directly to a profile with "firefox -p ProfileName". All Firefox instances are grouped into the same icon on the taskbar for me (Linux / KDE).
Granted, it could certainly be more user friendly, but it's proved rock solid for me for years now.