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I switched when they added tabs in version 1.5 (I think) and it's pretty much the only browser I've seriously used since.
I keep going back and forth between Chrome and Firefox. Maybe it's because of the couple years I spent working with the Chromebook team, but I always go back to Chrome like a drug. I know it's bad for privacy and the add stuff is certainly not cool but I just can't get pulled away from it. Its all about what you're used to.
Because Chrome stuffed up my task bar icons one time too many. (eg two Gmail icons, once for each account - randomly start working as bookmarks instead of their own window.) Fixing that takes many attempts
Firefox can't do this at all, but an extension fixed that.
I used to for many years and recently moved to Arc. Itβs a totally different experience of browsing the internet and workspace management, however Iβd like to go back to Firefox if itβs possible to tweak it as much as possible to Arc.
Just read its website and the related Wikipedia Article, it's kinda different but in a good way. I don't think I'll switch though because it's still based in Chromium, monopolized by Google.
The desktop browser was better than IE back in the days and I like how they market/position themselves. Nowadays I switch between Chrome and Firefox just to have different containers (private and work), and yes I know this is also somewhat native supported in Firefox.. but it still felt unintuitive to me.
I recently started using Firefox on Android because of the new privacy sandbox strategy (which I'm not against per se, I don't know all the details yet though), but I must say.. it feels a bit buggy and seems to suffer from input lag. Too bad, the desktop experience is flawless.
Its not Google
Because sometimes I need to use Not Safari, and the alternatives are too awful to consider.
So is there like a Firefox equivalent to ChromeOS? Wikipedia mentions a few discontinued projects by companies but that's it. I still like the concept of a really minimal device that outsources storage and heavy computation (probably to a server I also own).
Because they stopped making new releases of Phoenix
I somehow just always followed since Netscape Navigator.
I used to use Firefox when it had good customization, but Google stepped up their A-game, and put browser customization and password saving too. Firefox didn't have password saving at the time (probably still doesn't) so that's why I haven't switched back to Firefox
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Like the logo and it works as well as the alternatives
Question for those who use unlock origin on Firefox, does the browser hang when loading pages when you first turn it on, Iβm having that problem.
For the price of mild inconvenience in some cases I get to add a tiny little bit of resistance against chromium monopolistic rule.
Its the default on my Linux distro
Originally (more than a decennia ago) because it had better customizability, later because it was less memory hungry.