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I switched to Brave for a week and had to go back because the plugin ecosystem is pretty much nonexistent at this point. I switched to Firefox for another coup
by pluma 9y ago
I switched to Brave for a week and had to go back because the plugin ecosystem is pretty much nonexistent at this point.
I switched to Firefox for another couple of weeks and had to give up because the developer tools were sluggish in comparison and plugins were frequently out of date and even multiprocessor mode was a massive problem (because plugins could silently prevent it).
I'm on Linux. Neither Safari nor Edge are available, so the only other serious alternative I can think of is Opera. And I'm not going to switch my main development browser to something with practically no market share for the projects I work on.
Chrome is _simply the best_ browser for web development right now. Everything else is second class at best, irrelevant at worst. Also Chrome's extension ecosystem is pretty much what Firefox's used to be at its prime: if there's a browser extension available, it's likely Chrome-first and the Chrome version will be the most consistently maintained one.
I would love to see open source win, but switching my main development browser from Chrome to Firefox would mean working with a massive avoidable handicap.