A few years ago some new web apps only supported Chrome, like they only supported IE a few years before, but today I haven't had to use Chrome for months.
I might just have been lucky but I don't know. Does anyone else?
I use Firefox for everything... except work.
At work we have Google Suite, Google Meet, etm and these do not work as well, as consistently, or with the same features in Firefox.
A specific example, if you have a 1080p webcam you can use this in Firefox and https://webcamtests.com/ will reveal that I have a 1920x1080 FHD webcam @ 50fps ... all good, but Google Meet will only allow 1080p webcams in Chrome.
That's a rich feature example, but even things like Docs behaves subtly differently and a little more rich and fluidly in Chrome.
What this means is that I segment my life by browser, Firefox is my personal life, and I treat Chrome as my work sandbox.
Btw, in 2020 Google was caught red handed shipping broken code to firefox to make it look like broken/slow. Everytime that happens, just open support tickets with your IT dept. That is the only wining move. Otherwise you are just a fool being pushed around :(
(Sure, if you've specifically bought an external webcam so you can have high-quality video chats, that's another story. But I don't think all that many people do that.)
Outside of the webcam issue, I've never had any problems using any of the GSuite webapss with Firefox.
I don't speak well the language of the country I currently live in and Chrome really helps. I haven't really found a comparable feature or add-on in other browsers.
I'd switch to Firefox in a heartbeat if it offered a decent version of this.
Includes offline translation. I very rarely need this, so I can’t speak about the quality, though.
One website on desktop, which I only use chrome (actually edge but I consider them to be the same thing) for because the developers don't take bug reports seriously unless it's Chromium based
Thus it is fair to state they are preventing adblockers.
No it's not fair to say that. The same way it's not fair to say Apple is preventing adblocking in Safari even if the current state of adblocking there RIGHT NOW is exactly how manifest v3 Chrome will be(using declarativeNetRequest)
If there is a checkpoint at an event which seems to be turning away cars it doesn't matter if other cars are also getting through: the way we use the relevant phrasing allows us to say that "they are turning away cars" as that is a bit ambiguous as to why or how many.
If ad-blockers really will be less effective under v3 remains to be seen. But do you think it is an unreasonable perspective, given the technical limitation?
Not saying this to defend MV3. The ad blocking situation for Safari isn’t dire, though.
Also it integrates better with Google services.
Maybe one of the extensions I typically use in both works differently in Firefox.
On Windows and macOS Firefox is a bit more competitive, but important benchmarks such as JetStream and Speedometer still have Firefox easily beat (note the inverted score axes).
That doesn't mean Firefox is slow per se, it just means Chromium (and WebKit) are faster.
On Android I use Firefox for its addon support, but the UI is notably more glitchy and buggy than Chrome's.
If a website uses enough JS for that to matter, it's a problem on all browsers
Do I prefer the modern "let's ship a JS renderer with every webpage" approach? No, definitely not. Unfortunately, quite a few web applications and websites u visit disagree with me.
There's also a perceptable difference in terms of browser responsiveness outside the page itself. Firefox seems to take longer to process UI input in my experience, for reasons I don't entirely get. There's a slight but visible delay before the page starts rendering that Chrome doesn't have, and that small delay adds up when you're working in web UIs fir a significant part of the day.
Rendering/JS performance seems reasonable nowadays, but the UI has weird skips and freezes fairly often.
You speaking anecdotally or do you have data?
And I haven't found the Google services integration to be all that deep or interesting to matter. In fact, I'd found the opposite to be true: it's gotten in the way. Having the browser log into your Google Account directly has led to some confusing behavior, especially when signing into a second account via some webapp, which sometimes changes how the browser is signed in.
Regardless, I think we all would be better off with a bit less integration of Google services in our lives.