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I find it hard to believe that there's any overlap on the Venn Diagram between people technologically literate to use the Fediverse and people who still use Chrome. I'm always shocked to see posts like this. For OP, join us
Some sites work much better with Chromium. I default to Firefox (LibreWolf), though.
I can't imagine keeping myself locked into only one browser. For as long as I can remember, I've always used at least two.
I always keep chrome installed and updated alongside the other browsers. Sometimes it's necessary for certain websites
If it doesn't work with Firefox and a VPN I just don't use that service anymore. Im not going to go out of my way to use a service that doesn't support certain browsers. Except for my bank.... They win that battle against the VPN
My bank actually reccommends Firefox alongside Chrome and Safari.
Which is pretty much the only thing I can respect about them, sadly.
My bank just doesn't like a VPN which is a little annoying but understandable to some extent
I open up chrome are when there isn't an alternative
Some banking services and authentication for certain Google products that I need for school or work
Being a technologically literate person, I usually have 2-4 different browsers on my devices.
One of my computers is a Chromebook (which I was required to have in order to run my college's proctoring spyware, and bought before the Manifest V3 controversy was a thing). I've tried running Firefox on it inside the Linux virtual environment but it doesn't work well, and the issue hasn't been urgent enough to be worth blowing away Chrome OS and making it into a normal Linux laptop yet.
I started using Firefox back when it was called Phoenix so it pains me to say this. Firefox pretty much sucks. For a long time, their biggest selling point is it’s not Chrome. It’s noticeably slower than Chrome and, outside of a few nice features, it’s been stagnant for a while. It routinely lags behind and hasn’t really innovated anything in years. The UI hasn’t changed materially since like 2004. Is a tabbed window the best we can do? It was great back then but now we use so many web apps that the tabs are unwieldy.
A free, open source browser should be an incredible priority. I would put it up there with Linux in terms of importance. Instead of treating the project as important, Mozilla is screwing around with Pocket, a VPN and email masking. What the hell? It’s pathetic. They wouldn’t even be in business at all if they weren’t being paid by Google. The organization is rudderless and it shows in Firefox.