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I actually quite like the mobile browser, it hasn't really given me any issues yet. The fact it supports add-ons like uBlock is awesome.

FF is my daily driver (since Quantum in '17) but I've found it really just isn't holding up these days:

• Profiling functions between Chrome/FF reveals that Chrome is frequently considerably faster (usually 60%+)

• During WebGL work I'll often hit blue screens around memory management (this seems to be a relatively recent development)

• Similarly, trying to profile a WebRTC application with video feeds will consistently trigger a blue screen. (I can tell this is from FF, as the browser itself flashes white a few times before the system goes down.)

• Things like the UI changing - while minor - are enough to cause inconvenience, plus the occasional random feature removal (View Image context menu option) indicates that I'm not necessarily the target audience for the browser.

I actually slightly prefer the devtools in FF than Chrome, but there are a number of quirks that have started appearing over the past year or so, ranging from actual bugs to just weird UX.

As I write this, I'm realizing I'd love a browser that's seen more as a devtool than a catch-all web navigator which happens to have a profiler built in.

This honestly sounds like a great idea. At this point I'd pay money for a browser that was private, fast, and dev-friendly, simply to avoid the moral dilemma of switching from FF to a Chrome clone.

I have been working with the PETAL stack and it is incredible. I love Elixir and have only picked it up over the past year or two. There has been a noticeable increase in recruiters reaching out to me about Elixir jobs lately, too.

I think Elixir should be a lot bigger than it is. I have not had an issue or encounter with unmaintained libraries.

I reached for Preact on a project and was very satisfied with it. Until, that is, I hit a bug where DOM elements would be rendered out of order when I would call setState. I replaced Preact with React and everything worked fine. The logic was fairly straightforward as well - I was not doing anything fancy.

Preact is great but be prepared for anomalies like mine.

While I worked there, I heard about user studies Mozilla performed comparing Chrome and FF. It turned out that with all branding stripped, users found FF to be faster - but as soon as it became 'Chrome' vs 'Firefox', users always chose Chrome. I recall they actually faked browser UI's (i.e. made FF look like Chrome and vice versa) to test if it was about branding - and it was.

The reason I bring this up is I assume a lot of folk are in that bucket. Chrome was on top for a long time, and I think people are hesitant to switch to FF, despite the effort Mozilla has put into revamping/rewriting their browser.

(Also, I find it interesting that you only have a quarrel with Google tracking you (via Chrome) if you _see_ the ads. They're still collecting data whether or not you see the end result.)

Can you elaborate on what 'other spying' Mozilla does? Do you mean their telemetry?

Former Longmont resident/NextLight customer here. I can't understate how fantastic the broadband service is out there.

Usually my speeds clocked in around the 700-900mbps range (both up/down), and at its slowest, maybe 300mbps. No port blocking, so I could host my own web/game servers. The one time they performed maintenance, they notified customers a week in advance and scheduled the 15-minute down time to be around 3am. Since I was a 'charter' customer, my bill was a flat $50/mo, though I'm pretty certain that new customers don't pay much more than that.

I truly believe if more people understood what _good_ internet is like, there would be a MUCH stronger push for communal broadband services.