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For me a browser needs to be available on all my devices. Android, iOS, Mac, windows and Linux. And it needs to sync bookmarks, history and passwords across all of those. Anything less and I go back to chrome or Firefox. Extra features just does not seem worth losing this when they are both excellent browsers already.

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I partly agree with you. To me, bookmark sync is essential (I didn't look into options), history sync isn't as important, and password sync is essential (Firefox is a second-class password manager on Chrome or Windows/Linux or Android, and BitWarden is a second-class password manager on the Web and not perfect on Android either).

Sure I agree. Password is a strong first, bookmarks is a second but still very essential and history a fairly distant third. But Firefox and Chrome both have these so I don't feel like downgrading to not having them.

BTW, I would like to have live sessions where I can have the same tab session open on a second computer/phone, or connect to different tab sessions from different computers. I don't think anyone currently offers this.

I have that issue as well and end up using xBrowserSync to keep bookmarks synced between Chrome (Android) and Firefox (MacOS and Windows). Maybe worth a shot. I'm on the waitlist for Orion so I don't know if it works on Orion yet, fingers crossed!

I used to search for that browser too, now I just use external tools for bookmarks (Pocket and Raindrop.io) and password managing (1Password).

Switching between Safari on mobile and Firefox on macOS and Windows is fine for me this way.

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