I use Firefox day to day, but if I was a “power user” and picking apart web traffic everyday I’d probably use Chromium. The dev tools in it are way better than the ones built in Firefox.
I use Firefox as my daily driver on my personal and work computers with no issues. I guess YMMV there. I haven’t used chrome for about 3 years now. I keep a chromium browser around o just for testing things across browsers, but I never really need it.
Although currently I am mostly using Chrome for web dev, and Firefox for everything else. On my current project, FF just couldn't seem to handle the churn of constantly loading heavy pages, dev tools etc.
As a web developer you can take my Chrom(e|ium) from my cold dead hands.
I tried out Firefox for a week this year and the experience didn't come anywhere close to that of using Chrome, not only for development but also as a user. Heck, even Electrolysis is still a mess with half the extensions still blocking it.
The more I see distasteful things happening around Chromium, the more exclusively I use Firefox these days. And frankly I have had vanishingly few problems using FF alone.
Oh well, I do use chromium as a last resort, every few months. If this the alternative, I prefer to suffer Firefox shenanigans every now and then.
I was seriously annoyed by the move to the new add-ons framework, and stayed way too long on unsupported, unpatched old version, until everything I needed was available, to some degree at least, in the new framework. I tried but didn't stick to Chromium as my main tool.
As it is, Firefox is ugly on some days, but for me at least, it still the best tool available, and it still feel pretty much like mine.
I use Firefox everywhere I can, warts and all, just to avoid the Chromium monopoly. It was actually a huge bummer for me when Edge gave in and switched to Chromium; having a giant like Microsoft support a third browser engine would really have been a boon to the health of the ecosystem.
I adopted chrome because of the speed, but I keep using it because I'm used to it and it works fine. I know my way in and out of chrome's dev tools. On firefox it would be a struggle to figure out a web development routine.
I'm running Chromium instead of Chrome. I like to think of it as Chrome without the bad parts, even though google has influence in the Chromium project.
The main reason I would not switch to Firefox is because, at least when I last tried it, I did not like their dev tools as much.
Strange, from my perspective Firefox is very widely used.
And for me Chrome/Chromium has just to many usability bugs, to be used productive. E.g. Tabbar doesn't scroll, not very good extensions available (e.g. regex search) and its more difficult to select head of tail of the url (in firefox just click in middle and drag down/up wards)
Any particular reason/extensions that makes you prefer Chrome/chromium?
I generally use FF for most everything, and reserve chromium for those few poorly designed sites that fights hard against noscript/adblock - like facebook after their move away from input-fields and to js/ajax input (They use it for stuff like changing (part of) a friends name into a mention, etc). And for youtube (mostly because the horrible ui is useless without a mouse anyway, and lets me keep youtube in a window while I browse in FF).
[ed: and occasionally for web dev/debug -- not so much because ff web dev tools aren't good -- mostly because they interact somewhat poorly with vimperator]
Agreed, I kept trying Chrome after it first came out and honestly it just never became my daily browser. I use it when developing but not because I think the dev tools are better, Firefox's dev tools arent that bad, I dont know what magical features people are missing, but they're all there for me.
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