Seriously considering switching back to Firefox after all these years.
- Privacy
- Tree style tabsAd blockers will stop working on Chrome based browsers with Manifest V2 being dropped starting next week.
All Chromimum based browsers are in the same boat, Ad blocking will be severely degraded after Manifest V3 becomes the only option.
Sure it isn't frequent, but it is frequent enough that once a day or so I have to open chrome to do something.
Some startup websites I applied to.
Payment portals are a big one. Non-stripe or PayPal. But even there, if it's a new window payment flow, there can be issues on Firefox.
I don't consider it a problem to use two browsers at the same time, I usually don't to the same thing with them, so having separate profiles can be an advantage.
Note that privacy is not the reason why I am using Firefox. It is just that I think that knowing both is a good thing, and they are both good browsers, so why not? In some case, Firefox is better, in others Chrome is better, most of the times, they are interchangeable.
The only time it's a problem is when a site detects Firefox and won't display unlocked your using chrome or IE. I've only seen that a couple of times in the years since I switched back
It sends a lot of "analytics" and "tracking" to some of Mozilla's servers, but if you inspect the requests, those servers are actually behind Google's CDN,and Google does the TLS termination.
So... Google has access too all the data that Mozilla sends when it phones home. Some of it even has a unique identifying id.
It’s left a bad taste in my mouth since they used the work of others to get to where they are, then when others do the same, they don’t like it.
[0] https://github.com/ungoogled-software/ungoogled-chromium