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Do it now? I use Firefox on all devices, it's completely fine.

I agree, but I do need to keep a chromium browser around for the odd times that: my webcam decides to flicker uncontrollably during a meeting, a website just happens to put JS that runs terribly on Firefox in the hot path and it slows to a crawl, or a new feature is being demonstrated with Chrome only support.

Beats ads, as far as I'm concerned, but I can't help but feel like your average user wouldn't agree.

I used to keep a Chrome-based browser installed "just in case." But for about the last 5 years I've simply refused to have it on my machine. It's not needed.

A few years ago I uninstalled all remainders of Chrom(e|ium) from my laptop. Last week I had to get install it again because of a webflasher for a device that would only work on it. It's now gone again, and not missed.

I worked for Mozilla for 25 years and kept other browsers around the whole time. There's nothing wrong with having other browsers, and nothing technical that prevents it, so do that :D

I can't think of a time I didn't have more than one browser, even in 1995 when I made Netscape my default, I kept Cello around for some things. More browsers are better than fewer, not only for the industry, but for individuals too.

Seconded. Been on Firefox for years and greatly prefer my experience on Firefox both on desktop and mobile (Android) compared to any other browser.

I use PWAs a lot and Firefox dropped support

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