Although with web dev stuff I'm always looking at test sites and other sites in multiple browsers (this includes a corner of my studio which has a range of tablets in different sizes and a few different makes of smartphones). And while I can resize on my desktop, I like to hold the device to see how a website feels, animates and sounds.
I guess I should also note that my testbed includes a dusty PC with ancient IE installs and that on Android I look at sites in both the stock Android browser and Android Chrome.
- These days it feels very resource heavy.
- Getting tired of additional messaging I get on the mobile browser versions.
- I am very google heavy these days and like to support ecosystem variety.
I also have IE, FF, Opera and Vivaldi on my machine. I tend to use them for different uses, such as work stuff only a couple. Nothing worse than doing on-screen demo and seeing an inappropriate URL autocomplete. Also it keeps accounts separate so I can be logged in with several accounts without creating issues.
I haven’t used the "hello" firefox feature much at this time but I can certainly see the use for it in the future.
I do like that Chrome has Flash built in so I don't have to install it system-wide. So I use Chrome as a secondary browser.
When on Mac, I prefer Safari because it feels lighter than all of them and seems better with not eating CPU cycles for background tabs.
I use GWT, so since even though chrome runs compiled java to javascript, I'm still able to debug it and see stacktraces in java, thanks to source maps.
Vimperator is also very cool.
I like the "tab group" feature to manage different tasks.
Tried uBlock for chrome but it's just not as good as adblock plus.
I prefer Chrome's dev tools.
I like a browser to be a web-browser and just that. Without integration with services and apps.