It has good add-ons be I give enough of my data to Google.

It's got all my addons.

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.

Because Lemmy told me to

Tried to download a bank statement the other day and Chrome marked it as malware. Also happened with my Internet bill. I'm done with Chrome

Because it's good

On desktop because of multi account containers On Android I use Vivaldi

Much more flexibility in the way of custom themesz extensions and i think its called custom js or something its been a while but arkenfox is an example of one and I love all the different forks which while I'm not gonna use I'm happy that exists. Hate it on android like though I use cromite (bromite fork)

Because Microsoft and google are abysmal companies.I don't trust either of them (he typed, on an android phone - at least its been ROMmed)

Because sometimes I need to use Not Safari, and the alternatives are too awful to consider.

Idk really. At work I prefer chrome behaviour more. Also the spellcheck is better.
At home I prefer firefox more. Probably more because I like the addon feature like Dark reader and ublock on Firefox mobile.

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.

it's either that or something chromium-based

i mostly degoogled years ago

firefox just works most of the time. still have chromium installed for edge cases

I use Firefox because Internet Explorer 4 kind of sucks, and I haven't re-assessed my browser choice since then.

Absolutely. I only use chrome for d&d stuff because some specific formatting gets screwed up on Firefox.

people on the internet told me to

inherent distrust of google, which is deeply pervasive

Because Edge broke JSON files - I couldn't search through an open JSON file anymore, because Edge decided to only partially load the file.

That's nice and all, but stop fucking with my plain text. If I want to fuck with it, I can use my extensions, WHICH THEY DISABLED/BLOCKED...

So yeah, back to Firefox, and it's been fine.

That's a hard question.

I want Firefox to be better. I've gone back to it many times in 20 years. I'm using it right now.

But I tend to always leave at some point due to performance issues that I can never resolve. I'm having a good run at the moment with the worst of it being a random lockup I can't seem to figure out the cause of (and is pretty much just a task manager close, reopen, and resume...and infrequent enough to not really cause much headache)

But other times i've had memory leaks, or using most of the ram, or terrible addon management. I pretty much tried Chrome in the first place because back whenever Chrome came out, Firefox was using so much memory that I couldn't play games while Firefox was open, and multitasking is one of the things I've always taken as the reason to play games on PC over consoles.

All in all, I think it represents something better, but whether or not it is better is always up in the air. I just hope people stay hard on them to keep trying to improve the system, because i'm sure there's people far further on the fence than I am, and I think firefox is capable of just being a good browser.

bottom navigation is a godsend these days as phone screens are 7". Also adblocker.

Because old habits die hard.

Because Brave didn't allow add-ons when I tried it. This was years ago so no idea what it's like now

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.