Firefox

Things feel "weird" when you aren't used to it. For me, using Chrome is weird. Not a legit argument here.

Eh to each their own, I see almost all those as positives. No problems with bookmark manager. Agreed on pocket though.

Your choice.

• PWA's aren't really a thing. Linux, we has a nice 'Progressive Webapp' manager - so I can create PWA's with launchers for any website, using any browser. I think I have about 4 (Shopee/Lazada/Translate/PlexWeb).

9/10 times I just open the bookmarks in Firefox...

• Not sure what your issue is with Bookmarks or History - but they're perfectly usable. Perhaps you're just fixed in your ways.

• You can turn off Pocket. Even when it's on, it's not a problem - but Firefox has to have some revenue channels and many folks don't have any problem with Pocket. I use RSS, so I don't.

The only real problem you mentioned is no PWA which is easy solvable by: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/pwas-for-firefox/

same like pocket and downloads window.

Yeah, other people use Firefox too, it is not made just for you and your preferences. But what is different than in Chrome - you can easily change it. It would take you less time than writing this post.

Firefox comes with easy to disable Pocket, Chrome comes with impossible to disable Google. And Pocket is a problem? Lol :D

Two of the main features I need from my browser (apart from rendering pages) are the ability to run adblocker and being able to sync my tabs between desktop and mobile. The future of the first seems very uncertain with Chrome and the second never really works when I try it. On Firefox it's 100% every time.

So easy choice. And I don't have to deal with Google's shadyness.
But each to their own really - the "browser wars" seem so far in the past.

I don't get a lot of the negative sentiment here. To me Firefox is vastly superior to Chrome. Mozilla refactored and optimized performance years ago, which fixed many issues I had back then. It's open source, not driven by the interest of gathering data for the purpose of selling ads. I've set it up in exactly the way I like with some extensions and customizations that aren't possible in the Google browser. I can have hundreds and hundreds of tabs open without my computer grinding down to a halt. Is it perfect and aren't there things that can be improved? No. But it's pretty near to me.

Yeah. From what I have read, it seems Firefox has progressively gotten worse over the years. I am fine with using it, especially being able to get away from the other horrible choices.

I use Librewolf on my main computer, but on any other I disable some about:config settings.

I give Mozilla a pass for a lot of stuff that’s… how do I put it?.. let’s say, “quirky” in Firefox. And I’m willing to experience minor inconveniences every now and then knowing that I’m not using a Chromium-based browser.

With this being said, I really (and I mean really) like FF Developer Edition.

I don't understand what could possibly be worse about bookmarks in Firefox? You have every option, you can put a bookmark bar, bookmark sidebar (great to bring up any time with control-B), or the full manager (which I pretty much never use), or just a bookmark menu (which I also never use, but it's like any other bookmark menu IMO).

Hey, I also did not like the separate window for downloads and preferred a tab, there is an easy trick to avoid it, just add a bookmark with the URL about:downloads and it's done (been using it for years)

Philosophically, I want to support Firefox and I've used it for some time with various tweaks to make it more privacy-friendly.

My issue is with Mozilla. To me, they really don't seem all that focused on innovation within their browser or desire to put in effort to evolve it. There's a plethora of security concerns with their dated browser architecture and most other browsers have pushed ahead with cool innovations like tab stacking, useful sidebars, etc.

For now I'm mostly using Vivaldi. It's Chromium, sure. But as a company they seem eager to innovate, provide nice tools and features to their users, and maintain a desire to make their browser private without a conflict of interest with their own business model.

It wouldn't take me much to hop back to Firefox again with the right development direction. But for now, I feel Mozilla have almost lost desire to push their product into the modern web environment and I'm no longer willing to compromise my own user experience for my philosophical desire of where things should be.

I dont know what you feel that need to be polished but Firefox looks great to me. ¯_(ツ)_/¯

While Firefox doesn't natively have PWA support there is an addon that I use to add PWA support to Firefox. You have to install a helper program on your computer for it to work though so follow the installation instructions.

IMHO the Power of chromium Is that alone is very spartan. Starting from there you can achieve a ton of flavors from the ultra polished chrome to the overloaded (imho obv.) brave. If Firefox could split the "core" from the "UI" we would have more flavors and more core-centric devs.

I'm in the same boat! I have tried, really tried, the only things I like are the extensions support on mobile browser, and the sync with the Wolvic on the Quest VR, but it feels old and some websites render weirdly on it, plus the lack of support for PWAs really make it tough.

I like Brave best, with Edge as a second choice, as weird as that sounds. I miss Firefox when it was the modern and most secure browser.

If you're referring to the Android app, PWAs are in nightly at least.

I make heavy use of the side bar, I have bookmarks, history, downloads, notepad (unfortunately only local) and even tabs there (would love to get rid of the tab bar), which works pretty well for me. What's PWA?

I just want a tab grouping sustem that works EXACTLY as it does on Edge, together with the vertical tabs.
I'd rather be using Firefox, but that Edge feature alone made me switch back to it.

On Mobile it supports PWA.But there's no advantage of them on Desktops

I don't see Pocket anymore on FF. It irritated me, so I eradicated it through the settings somehow. Took a bit of time to figure it out. FF has been fine for me except for a few edge cases where I need to use Chrome.