Just... give Firefox a shot people. Please: https://i.imgur.com/81OpEOy.png
I did. But the Firefox UI is still very Windows-centric, and doesn't feel like a real Mac program at all.
But the big reason I don't use it is that you can't define how to switch from tab to tab.
Every program on my Mac from Safari to Nova to VS Codium to my database manager allows me to switch tabs with the standard macOS Keyboard Shortcuts settings. So I use the same keys to switch tabs in every program on my Mac. Which is part of the whole Mac experience — Things happening the same way between apps.
Even the Finder, and the DuckDuckGo browser allow this.
Not so with Firefox. The simple addition of "Show Next Tab" and "Show Previous Tab" in the drop-down menus would fix this. It's so simple. So elementary. So basic to every other Mac program I use that its absence in Firefox is glaring. I'm not going to rearrange the muscle memory I use all day every day for one program.
May I ask what you did to configure your browser that way (extensions/settings)? I like the look of it, and looking for ways to customize my setup.
Also, of course, you should install uBlock Origin.
uBlock Origin
Sidebery
QuickCut
SingleFile
Popup window
Firefox Multi-Account Containers
Copy All Tab UrlsPrivacy Badger
Duck Duck Go Privacy Essentials
Privacy Possum
Even Reddit on Firefox PC crashes occasionally (the whole site turns white while browsing). Reddit on FF on Android is barely browsable.
Here's how you can fix this all at once: https://old.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/g3tyfu/how_to_swit...
Google is intentionally breaking support for Firefox on their websites. Other just don't care and support monopolies.
You can't do video calls with Teams in firefox for a really clear and obvious example, but I encounter breakages quite often and have to switch back to Chrome.
Safari suffers the same, but I get the impression people are testing safari more than Chrome.. but I hear so many complaints on hackernews about safari, I suspect at some point Chrome penetration will finally dislodge Safari on MacOS... or if MacOS market share goes down: then it's over and we have a total monopoly.
Compared to her I rarely use my phone for browsing, I do not feel as impacted.
This is nice because you can take all your tabs for a research project, condense them to a group and then nap them until you come back to the project.
Oh yes I forgot TST doesn't have that since I haven't used it in so long. Keeping groups of unloaded tabs might not be healthy for me, enables my tab hoarding habit.
warning: is for advanced users
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tree-style-ta...
Also, that's not a useful comparison because web browsers are basically operating systems now, with how complex they are. Not to mention that Windows XP was released over two decades ago. So, again, I'm not sure what your point is.
Safari was 40-something MiB installed a few macOS versions ago before parts of it were migrated out of the app to become protected system libraries. The reason the others you checked are of the same size is because they are forks of the same two browsers.
Add.: I just have to disagree with the notion that browsers are "basically" operating systems because of how complex they are. They really are not. Not by a longshot. Neither do they contain the fundamentals of an operating system, nor do they contain the upper reaches of them. We can pretend they are operating system facsimiles by doing a lot of impressive and fun stuff in JavaScript and WASM, but this isn't the same thing. The complexity of an operating system, even a simplified one, is of a completely different sort and depth. This comparison only fits the sarcastic intention people have when making the comparison - we can joke about it, because of how absurdly large and tangled browsers have become.
Exactly. What's the alternative? Safari is nice if you're on macOS/iOS but isn't available elsewhere. Every other browser that has any semblance of market share is a fork of Chromium and shares its size. So I'm not sure how Firefox is "overstuffed" but other browsers are not.
> The complexity of an operating system, even a simplified one, is of a completely different sort and depth.
I agree with this, and it's obviously an exaggeration, but I don't think it's an invalid comparison. The API surface area that browsers need to support is enormous, and they have even stricter backwards compatibility guarantees than most modern OSes. Any browser worth using is going to be pretty large simply because they're complex beasts.