Did exactly this, a few weeks ago. Was heavy Chrome user, now fully on Firefox (and Safari on mobile). I am so satisfied with this decision, and the transition was much easier than expected.
I would do it instantly if the devtools were half as convenient as Chrome. Unfortunately they are super clunky
What are you missing? I was feared of this too, but they seem to be just fine.
Can't inspect websocket frames. It's ridiculous.
I'm out of that, but maybe somebody else in here got an idea how to fix your problem with that.
My solution is to use chrome when faced with that particular limitation. There's a bug open on the mozilla tracker and it's been there for a while but no one seems to care.
While I run into this too from time to time, it's not something everyone uses. Also it takes me 5 seconds to workaround by debug logging incoming ws messages. Most web devs I talk to can do everything with FF devtools more than fine.
I use both, Chrome for client side dev, Firefox for everything else. Chrome is just the dev tool. Works like a charm because switching between tabs inside a browser is just as quick as alt-tabbing between browsers.
I use them all the time, don't seem clunky to me. What else is not working other than the websockets inspection you mentioned?
Did it on Monday evening. Great choice, no problems at all. Could import all data, also switched to Firefox on my Smartphone where I can now run uBlock, too.
It makes such a difference on mobile being able to run a good blocker.
Totally. I am also running my own Ad blocking VPN with Pihole/PiVPN and routing all my mobile traffic through that. It's just great and probably the best $4/month (for the Vultr instance) I have ever spent.
This. I would argue that Chrome seems faster (probably proprietary tech on most sites), but with µBlock, this is gone and there's no ads.
Can't, locked in by the password manager and android integration.
No hardware video decoding on Linux ...
Indeed - but it's hardly an issue in practice.
Well, watching videos is one of the things I do most with my browser. So this is a no-go for me, as the fans of my laptop will start spinning with Firefox (and battery life is worse).