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I love Chrome and I am amongst those who are not planning to switch anytime soon. My ecosystem is mostly Google for work, my passwords are in there, and I just enjoy the synergy with my phone, too.

But... It's true that trying Safari or Firefox or Brave showed great speed improvements over Chrome. The memory hog is real with Chrome, too.

So, if this is true and replicates in my session then this is amazing news.

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I switched to firefox for personal use only. I still like chrome for work. It's a good way to try out firefox and it also separates my work and home life which is nice.

I would use Firefox for work except there doesn't seem to be an equivalent to `chrome://inspect`. That's quite literally the only reason I use Chrome at work besides the obvious (cross browser support). If I could debug Deno/Node apps without Chrome, that would be super.

What does chrome://inspect do that Firefox's web developer tools doesn't?

It allows you to connect developer tools to a nodejs instance as if that nodejs instance was running in your browser.

On the firefox side there is node-firefox that should accomplish the job. That hasn't been updated in like 5 years, so who knows if it actually works.

Have you tried `about:debugging`? Pretty sure both chrome and firefox support a remote debugging protocol. I only know about it because there is a way to hook up VSCode so all the debugging stats end up in the editor instead of the browser.

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Tools/about:debuggi... [2] https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=firefox-...

I've never managed to get that to work with Node.js or Deno. Devices work fine though.

Brave is based on Chromium, so you're not going to get much more other than a preinstalled adblocker and a few other tweaks. The memory usage won't look much better.

I deleted all of my passwords from Chrome's storage and entered all of them into Bitwarden. I'm now free to move to any browser that I want.

I've found the opposite, especially for development. I use ff 99% of the time and it's slower and crashier than Chrome by an order of magnitude at least. Using ff because Google is evil, and suffering for it. (Arch Linux, sway, 5yo Thinkpad)

I have somewhat similar experiences. FF is the worst of the browsers I use in terms of feel (I don’t want to say it’s slower necessarily because I don’t actually time things, and I assume if a browser is smarter about what it loads first and how, it could feel better even if it’s technically slower), while Safari and Chromium based browsers a feel much more responsive. Generally I’m using Brave but also have to use Chrome for work.

It's more than just load, it's all the little hangs. Especially with devtools open. Also unlike Chrome, one tab can crash every window, which can happen to me daily.

Edit: I suppose that's what you meant by "responsive"

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