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.
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.
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.
I use FF for almost everything but when it comes to Google stuff (Gmail, Docs, Sheets, etc.) I use Chromium. Firefox crashes on me too much with those apps and though I generally don't lose work it's a pain to have to relaunch and get back to where I was.
Same here - FF for general web browsing and Microsoft Edge Dev for dev tooling on Windows. I haven't uninstalled Chrome completely yet but that day is quickly approaching.
As others have pointed out, it may be worth looking into whether or not your reasons for using Chromium for the devtools are simply habit.
Speaking for myself, I'm in the other camp. I never really ditched Firefox for Chrome except for a brief period[0]. I returned to Firefox back when it was still called "Firefox (Not Responding)". Other than the renaming (/s), it -- generally -- flies. The devtools do what I need them to do, however, I used to hop back and forth from Chromium to FF a lot more.
So I'll be re-evaluating things, again, myself -- just in the other direction. :)
[0] I used Chrome for about two years after its release because Firefox wouldn't work with an internal application. It was just easier to use a single browser.
I switched to Firefox for regular browsing, but use Chrome for development because their devtools is so much better. I hope Firefox invests more in devtools development, honestly. More devs developing on FF could lead to higher adoption.
I go in cycles and use Chrome for a while and then switch back to Firefox. The last few months, I've found myself using FF Developer version a lot more.
The dev tools are much better than Chrome's, and it uses a fraction of the memory and tends to be much more stable. I have an HP Elite book with 8GB of RAM with an Intel i5 processor. If I leave Chrome open long enough, it will bring my system to its knees.
Well, mostly because I like Firefox's development tools a little bit more than Chromes (although they are both awesome), but Chrome is way faster than FF for standard browsing. So I use FF for dev and Chrome for browsing.
This. I use FF for regular web browsing but when I work I still use Chrome for its Dev Tools.
It's not even that FF's dev tools are bad -- it's good, but sadly Chrome is still better in some marginal yet significant ways.
Most notably Chrome is still better for CSS work when I'm trying out colors, tweaking shadows and animation timings, where Chrome has some nifty widgets to preview changes quickly and easily.
This. I keep Chrome only to test and sometimes use their dev tools though I am also productive with the ones from Firefox. They both have different things to offer.
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.
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