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I am a long time Firefox user (on Linux), however for about 5 years I had to switch to Chromium due to a small issue that seemed to never be fixed: proper supp
by ciprian_craciun 5y ago
I am a long time Firefox user (on Linux), however for about 5 years I had to switch to Chromium due to a small issue that seemed to never be fixed: proper support for user profiles, namely how to open a link in a new tab/window in a given profile (that was already running). Luckily it got fixed last year, so now I'm "back".
However, this is only one of the situations in which, from time to time, "something" pushes me away from Firefox to Chromium. For example for about two weeks now Google Meet is not working properly on Firefox (at least on OpenSUSE Tumbleweed).
Moreover, they just keep needlessly changing things: I use the, now obsolete, "compact" UI mode; for about a month I've started experimenting "tabless" (i.e. one tab per window) but found that there isn't any more this option (I had to use `userChrome.css` to hide the tabs); they keep dropping or breaking `about:config` options; when they add new "features" (like UI buttons) they shove them in my UI and I have to remove it from each and every profile; etc.
- ciprian_craciun 5y agoThat being said, and getting to the initial point of the OP, for some time now I no longer see Firefox as an open source project, but as a "product", just another one in the browser line-up alongside Chrome / Chromium, Brave, Vivaldi, etc. Just another product that happens to be open-source, just another product that happens to have a business-model where I get the short end of the stick (mainly the "advertising" incarnation of stick)... If perhaps websites / webapps would be less demanding on the latest-and-greatest web-feature, we could use simpler browsers, like the ones based on WebKit, or why not even something lightweight as Netsurf...