Asklemmy

Because I can.

Many reasons, but the main one is being able to self-host the sync server. It's just crazy that the entire browsing history of most people on the internet is stored on Google servers, with no e2e encryption!

I used to use it way back when it first came out and I was a huge fan, but about the time Chrome was becoming a mainstream alternative I started to have a lot of difficulty with adblockers not working and webpages that refused to load on anything other than Internet Explorer or Chrome, so I switched.

Heard about some of the shady shit going down recently in the Googlesphere and decided it was time to switch back and I'm happy to report that everything runs smoothly again.

I like the old icon, and Google shot itself in the foot with the anti-adblock stuff.

It’s the default browser on my computer, and it doesn’t suck, so I’m not motivated to seek an alternative.

Because at the time I started using it, it was still Mozilla and the other alternative was Internet Explorer, the browser from Microsoft - the Evil Empire of that time - which was riddled with security holes (the whole ActiveX stuff, especially, was a complete total mess).

Later Chrome became more fashionable but to me it was already obvious that Google's "Do No Evil" slogal was complete total bollocks (plus it came out in the Snowden revelations how Google was used for civil society surveillance, plus by then they had become mainly an Ad Company with a search engine, hence anti-privacy) and I wasn't about to trust what already back then looked like the up and coming New Evil Empire with access to my computer and browsing habits.

Mind you, I did use Chrome on my Android devices, but that was because I expected the OS itself to be rigged like crazy for privacy intrusion and worse so avoiding Chrome there did very little to reduce my privacy exposure in there, though eventually I moved to Firefox there too.

Doing my bit to support the open web. Plus, while it's probably just familiarity, I've always felt that Firefox works with me while Chrome works against me.

good privacy

I used Edge, because it's genuinely an extremely feature packed browser, but when Google announced the manifest v3, I jumped to Firefox.

Unpopular Lemmy opinion, but I hate it. Firefox always freezes on desktop, especially on YouTube. Firefox on Android feels like it was developed for Android 8.0 and never updated. And the worst part is there's a bug on the desktop version in the print preview window when it comes to printing shipping labels, so I have not been able to use Firefox for my company for over 8 months now.

I've reported the bug every time Firefox updates and the bug persists, but Mozilla doesn't give a shit. It's so frustrating.

Primarily because I've been using it for much longer than Chrome has been a thing so I'm used to it. But Google's shenanigans are also a factor.

The developer tools are top notch. Chrome is slower and sucks.

There are no other options.

I hope ladybird will become usable in few years.

Who's asking?

Best non-chromium browser. More customisable.

against google/chromium monopoly.

I've been using FF for years now, probably since the quantum update. Tbh, the thing that prevented me to switch to any other browser since is the ctrl+tab functionality. I HATE cycling through tabs in any other order than by most recent tab. I didn't find a setting to change it on chrome when I was forced to use it for work, but in FF it's easily found in the settings and probably was on by default at some point as I don't recall ever changing it.

In recent years the privacy aspect and the fact that it isn't made by google have also played a role in why I've stuck with firefox. Also extension support on android, although the browser is still a bit slower than chrome on mobile.

Because the only thing it doesn't have that I miss from edge is the vertical tabs, otherwise its just better in every way that matter to me.

And before someone mentions it, I am aware there are vertical tab options, but none of them are the close enough.

I like Lynx

Containers addon. And it has bookmarks decades old. Remove both and I wouldn't care much. I'm also more familiar with it. It feels more natural due to this. I feel more comfortable on it. More at home, less scared.

it's either that or something chromium-based

i mostly degoogled years ago

firefox just works most of the time. still have chromium installed for edge cases

Because I like it the best

I use Firefox because Internet Explorer 4 kind of sucks, and I haven't re-assessed my browser choice since then.

I use WaterFox.

It has less tracking and more built-in privacy features than Firefox but is built on the same base

I use Fennec on mobile.

I dont like Chrome have so big market share. Also it is making less dumb desions for me, you can actually disable stuff I dont like.

It's a good compromise of everything I care about regarding a digital product.

I use it to protest Google's bullshit, but I still acknowledge all problems Firefox has and that all in all, Chromium is superior in many ways

Not Chromium, Extremely customizable and configurable, and add-on support on mobile, to name a few reasons.

To be honest, because it was pre-installed in Linux Mint. I got a first laptop, and I didn't know differences between Windows and GNU+Linux. Hell, I was searching for "pure Linux". I didn't know that's just kernel, neither what kernel is anyway. And I just decided for Mint. At the time, I considered Windows "just another distribution or whatever".

I did get to briefly use school computers before that. There I preferred internet explorer over both Chrome and Firefox. Yeah. Chrome kept crashing, Firefox didn't load many pages (it was probably well outdated) but IE just worked, much faster than Chrome, somehow.

I was using Mozilla in order to not use Internet Explorer and at some point I switched to their new browser when it was still called Firebird.

Nowadays I stick to it just so Google doesn't get a browser monopoly.

Before Google started being openly evil and Firefox was pretty slow by comparison, I kept using Firefox for 2 reasons: mobile add-ons and the "Container Tabs" addon which doesn't (or at least didn't) have a chome analog. Now I've degoogled and also it seems faster in those occasions when I have to use chrome at work.

I switched to chrome for a few years but went back to Firefox about 3 years ago. Google can piss off as far as I’m concerned.

On top of what everyone else said: I REALLY hate the UI design of Chrome. We just don’t get along. Firefox always worked well for me.