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I tried Firefox one day when they said they had a good update, and reviewers were also agreeing that it was good. Meanwhile Chrome was doing stupid crap that I didn't like. I switched and haven't looked back since. It's actually kind of dangerous to have a browser monoculture like this. Creates one big giant attack vector and also makes it so that any big problem in Chromium might simultaneously affect almost all the browsers out there at once.
I'm not sure why everyone likes chrome so much anyway.. it has always been a spying tool and now it's like a Swiss army knife spying tool
Chrome, but not necessarly other Chromiums. Blink engine is better than Gecko or WebKit, offering more possibilities than others, because of this is more and more used by browser companies. Respect Spyware, also Firefox send Data to Alphabet, Nest and Googleanalytics (not the Browser itself, but Mozilla do), when you use sync.
Degoogled Chromium don't, but you can not longer use Google servers for sync. Edge and Opera use own servers, but both are more spyware than Chrome itself, Vivaldi use a own encrypted syncserver in Iceland and dont send anything to Google (Google APIs that compromise privacy are removed from the code),
Otter Browser (Qt5 engine) is a nice, very fast and private browser, inspired by old Opera12, very lightweight, can be usefull for old PC or PC with few specs, same for the SSuite Netsurfer (WebKit2 and therefor only for Windows), both without sync, Brave, also privat, but without sync, apart shady practices with cryptocompanies and a fascistic CEO (donations to rightwing orgs, antivax and anti LGBT). Not very thrusworth at least for me.
Anyway, Blink is the current standard also for the most webpages, more and more optimized for this engine, like or not. There will be no other engines, because it is the most complex part of a browser and for this reason there have not been others for more than 20 years, where only the existing ones have been improved.
The rest depends on the taste and needs of each one.
I'm not sure who uses sync but yeah that's pretty much handing all your data over willingly
Well, I don't provide any data, everything is encrypted end2end, nobody apart from me has access to them, also nobody of Vivaldi. What's more, if I lose my Sync password, no one can recover the data, the price for privacy. But sync allows me not only to synchronize my data with my mobile or another PC where I have Vivaldi, it is also a Backup that allows me to recover all my settings, bookmarks, passwords, notes, etc. when i change the pc. I just have to install Vivaldi, enter my account and in seconds I have the browser back with all the data and settings as on the old PC. This is what the syncfunction is for.