Firefox feels really visually noisy, almost to the point of spaminess on a fresh intall. Out of the box you have a gazillion ads everywhere on the new tab page,

Firefox feels really visually noisy, almost to the point of spaminess on a fresh intall. Out of the box you have a gazillion ads everywhere on the new tab page, below that some "firefox tips" advertising sync, pocket shoved into the toolbar, when you go to the url bar it flies outward, inside the url bar there are buttons for various search engines, and there's a persitent "tab pickup" option that fools you into thinking you have a tab open when you're not. (Not to mention recently they removed tab distinction entirely). And to top it off it's a nightmare to even figure out how to do something basic like install your own extensions straight from a folder. Apparently if you download developer mode you can at least load unsigned packed extensions, but I don't want to do that, I just want to load it from a folder like the "load temporary development add-on" mode except permanent. Not to mention they don't even support something basic like reconfiguring keybindings without editing some obscure omni.ja file. Firefox forks might be better, but right now Firefox doesn't feel like it's really targeting anyone. I bet the average person would look at chrome compared to firefox and say the former feels "cleaner" and easier to use because it quite frankly is. On the flipside Firefox feels quite hostile to the power-user, and every update makes it feel like you're fighting the browser. At that point it's far less effort to use an ungogled chromium fork. At least despite their terrible decisions regarding manifest v3 they still allow you to load your own extensions with a simple checkbox.