5d ago

Why do people switch from chrome to Brave browser and not to Firefox?

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Firefox is my main browser but there's a few specific things that only work in chromium.
People will use whatever works for them.
- Other than MS Teams, which is garbage by default, I have yet to find anything that's not working in Firefox.
  
  The only times I've ever run into stuff not working were:
  The GrapheneOS installer bc it uses web USB
  Sites that decide Firefox isn't good enough (glares at Pearson), though I just use a user agent switcher and suddenly the site works
  
  Might be a niche use case, but I sometimes need WebUSB, WebSerial or WebXR, none of which are supported in Firefox.
  Just gotta protect them like with other permissions.
  Also, Firefox mobile still doesn't support mutual TLS, and so I need another browser just for that.
  
  From what I read, mTLS should have been implemented from version 138? We are already at 140.0.1 now. I don't have any use case for it though, so can't test this.
  
  Seems to work on Nightly, but not on the main build.
  Still, that's a lot more progress on this than the last years.
  
  When I've used Teams for meetings from my home computers, I use the web version (as I don't really want to instal the app.) I've never had an issue with it on Firefox; not even on devices running Linux.
  
  I always use the browser versions as well since I want to avoid installing anything Microsoft that's not absolutely necessary, and never got teams to work in Firefox. With user agent faker I can get it to connect, but the connection was horrible and that tab in FF hogged up 8GB RAM all by itself.
  
  No webRTC apps work for me at all in Firefox. Teams, Zoom, Google Meet, whatever. I can connect but there is no video or audio in either direction.
- I run 2 browsers as well, with about 90% of my use on Firefox
  I have found that simply being willing to use multiple browsers solves a lot of problems for me

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