Switching back to Firefox

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i haven't used chrome in over ten years. i could never understand why anyone the least bit nerdy would use it, but that's autism for ya
- Honestly? I'm lazy, my adblocker still works so that's enough for me
- FF has been my daily driver for at least a decade, but I gotta test my web apps in everything :/
  
  I kinda prefer Vivaldi for testing chromium-based browsers. I guess MS Edge would be a similar experience too nowadays
  
  Vivaldi is so pretty, I hide pretty much everything from the interface and use it for making product demo and training videos. I considered using it as a daily but I've got FF set up just the way I like it.
  I draw the line at installing edge on my linux machine! I just figure that if chrome works then edge works and haven't had anyone report any issues.
  Safari is the real pain in the butt..
- I have run Ungoogled Chromium, Thorium, and Vivaldi, and all of them perform much faster and better than Librewolf.
  And Librewolf is my daily driver.
- Tab groups. I switched from Chrome to Firefox when all this Manifest V3 stuff started, and I'm still looking for a Firefox extension that works as well and looks as clean as the way Chrome handles tab grouping.
  
  Firefox has panorama and supports browser groups which swap the whole visble tab bar. Lots of options.
  
  Neither of those are nearly as effective though
- Chromium does have a clean UI. I still use Librewolf but the Firefox UI is a mess
  
  What UI? Both browsers render one line with tabs and the address bar below. They're almost identical.
  
  For reals. This is the browser equivalent of being concerned that your car only has 14-way adjustable seats instead of 16, or whatever the marketing team dreamed up last year.
  
  Look at the screen usage though. It wastes a lot of space.
  
  Alt-tabbing back and forth, chrome's combined tabs, address, and bookmarks bar is larger than Firefox 's...?
  
  By default Firefox puts spacers either side of its URL bar, is that what you mean? Just remove them
  
  To me, the Chromium UI looks and feels like a toy...
  
  What exactly is "clean" about a ui that doesnt conform to the os ui standards..? The ui is basically bloated because of it.
- so many webapps and logins dont work properly in ff. or lets call it AdFox for now while they're still selling us out to alphabet. so autism is when you just see black or white. chrome isnt bad overall...they have a UX, AdFox isnt good overall for too many reasons. i hope we'll get a real browser before the web is dead.
  
  When have you used Firefox the last time, 10 years ago?
  
  Right? What kind of wildly niche activities are people doing where FF doesn't work? All of my stuff works, and I've never had any weirdness. I browse art, shop online, do social media (a little), check my email, use auction sites, and watch Plex and other streaming services.
  There must be an entire corner of the internet I don't even know about.
  
  do social media (a little),
  Don't worry, we all do social media at least a little. We're here, aren't we?
  
  I have some telehealth services I need to use occasionally that don't support Firefox, but that's pretty much it. And I guess Google meet is glitchy, but that I can deal with.
  
  today.
  
  I've been using Firefox consistently since the beginning in 2004. And Netscape navigator before that. And I have never had these issues you speak of. I never made the switch to chrome when it was released because I always hated the look of it. Firefox does everything anyone needs to do. I don't understand how some people struggle so much.
  
  Firefox does everything anyone needs to do. I don’t understand how some people struggle so much.
  I've always wondered what it is that people are doing when they say that FF is too slow or inadequate in some way. But elsewhere in this thread to be found:
  There’s only like one notable website I’ve had to use chromium for instead of Firefox.
  The website for recalibrating a Google Pixel’s fingerprint sensor. I’ve had to use that website twice, and I just used Microsoft Edge to do it since I can’t uninstall it.
  Absolutely wild.
  I would use firefox, but youtube is basically unusable on it.
  Also wild.
  
  All stuff which is using web serial doesnt work in ff(esp-home or the Installation Of grapheneOS for example). But for this rare tasks i have ungoogled chromium. My daily driver is Zen

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