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Moved back to Firefox after the Quantum release in Jan 2018. There were a few hiccups, and I still have to use Chrome or Safari or Edge for some of my local DRM
by Mandatum 7y ago
Moved back to Firefox after the Quantum release in Jan 2018. There were a few hiccups, and I still have to use Chrome or Safari or Edge for some of my local DRM-infested video streaming sites, but by about Q3 2018 I've never had any reason to use another browser.
Containers is a game-changer, paired with Sync I've been able to easily segregate work, personal, and client environments with ease. I work for many large organisations under NDA at any one time - and being able to colour-code and name my tabs has been invaluable to me. Also the Dev Tools, are great for debugging or sniffing traffic. I'm not a web developer but often need to debug client implementations that consume API's and it's just as good as Chrome. (Imagine that, FireBug used to be the standard, then Chrome came along and became "just as good", now Firefox has natively caught up.)
Finally - speed. Quantum finally killed Chrome's performance for me, and they've finally caught up on power-consumption on MacOS which as someone who regularly has to take multi-hour flights without charge ports available is a god-send.
The DRM issues piss me off, but it's the modern version of browser-restrictive Flash or Silverlight apps. I'll wait for someone else to get fucked off enough to create a bypass for Firefox, or maybe I'll get to a stage where I develop something to do so.
Chrome is dead, long live Firefox.