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Never really got the appeal of Chrome. Firefox worked very well for me for years.

Back when I first started using chrome it was the snappiest and had less memory usage than anything else on the block.

Then I started to think about what kind of tracking google was doing with it, so I tried out firefox... which was just as snappy and just as memory efficient.

Then I deleted chrome.

I guess that performance gap didn't bother me at that point to switch to less privacy respecting browser and Firefox caught up well, so I never saw it as a problem.

Yeah I never really got the appeal of Firefox. Chrome worked very well for me for years.

So does the tracking ;)

Personally I enjoy being tracked, it's why I got the Covid vaccine

The appeal is not having Google tracking literally everything you do online.

Firefox is older than Chrome. Did you use IE before that or are you just that young?

Years ago I switched at a time when Chrom[e|ium] had a better developer tools console than Firefox (although only slightly better than Firebug). But, nowadays the console is equal if not better in Firefox to Chrome.

I don't trust Mozilla to not break my workflow or remove features I use or ignore debilitating bugs for upwards of a decade in some ham-handed attempt to "keep me safe".

That sounds pithy, and it is, but Mozilla burned every ounce of goodwill they ever had with me over the last 5 years or so.

ah yes, good will, the thing we all definitely have for Google

I never really understood this point of view. May I ask what browser do you use then?

So far, Brave hasn't done any of the things that caused me to abandon Mozilla. My browser is a tool, not a political statement. Mozilla has taken positive steps to make that tool less and less useful and waste more and more of my time.

For me:

- command+d will save a bookmark to the last folder used

- command-y will open the history in a new, full tab

- bookmark manager also open full by default

- Recently closed shows windows and tabs together without separating them

- I can actually see and edit a list of all search engines I have registered that use the tab to autocomplete. Firefox's keywords don't

Firefox, gecko specifically, performed very bad on Mac OS X when chrome just came out.

That was also an era of websites crashing all the damn time - in firefox it was crashing the entire browser.

Chrome was a significantly better browser for a while. Now it's just "why switch?" to your average consumer.

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