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Supports extensions on mobile
Container tabs. No more need for separate chrome profiles.
Oh THAT'S how you do it? That was one feature of Chrome that I couldn't figure out how to do with Firefox. Thanks!
Glad I could help.
With treeview tabs it's even more awesome. Really loving Firefox, only recently got it. Only annoying thing is on Android it reloads tabs when I switch between apps.
Switched to Chrome a few years back when Firefox killed XUL and bundled too much bloatware.
Now I've switched back to Firefox because it's good again and Google is doing too many evil things lately (Web Integrity).
Because I feel shamed every time I check privacytools.io if I don't.
/s it's great but I need a chromium backup. Brave is the best chromium clone I know.
Btw, if y'all want to download pure firefox, check this, there's a better official download link with less tracking. In any case, I use weakened librewolf with Medium Ublock blocking (block all 3rd party scripts and frames and enable scripts only for logged sites since they are tracking me through other means anyway)
I have been with Firefox, since it's inception. Never left it. And it never let me down.
There are other reasons, but if I had to point only one word: containers.
Because I hate ads.
It's got a cool fox logo
Simple, it is from an org that has been FOSS and user focused for decades. Compare that to a bunch of companies which have more or less been doing the opposite. As far as I am concerned, people are just nuts for using anything else. But people are free to do what they want.
Because it has tabs. Seriously, I first used Firefox back when IE6 was the norm, and Firefox brought tabs and better standard compliance. Haven't turned my back since.
Ad blocking on desktop and mobile is awesome.
And it's vital to have multiple browser engines in the wild for interoperability. If we go all Chromium-based, we're going to eventually pay for that like IE6.
And Google is kind of an untrustworthy POS of a company these days.
Because I like having RAM to spare
It's not Chrome or Chromium derived. Google has incentives to mine me for data. Mozilla, not so much. I don't trust Mozilla completely, but I certainly trust them more than Google to have my best interest at heart.