Chrome is really popular. I'm pretty sure everyone knows it. Chart confirmation. I still use Firefox.
Side Tabs
A good side tabs extension is the primary reason I use Firefox. A row of tabs on top is the worst thing ever. Lists are great:
I use the "Tab Tree" extension (thank you Sergey Zelentsov). Chrome has a handful of side tabs extensions, but I don't consider them usable.
That's It
Side tabs is the only reason I use Firefox.
What's different?
Since I'm using Firefox on my laptop, I'd like everything to sync to my phone so I don't have to retype all my passwords. I like Firefox for Android's tab screen better than Chrome. That's the only difference I notice so that works out pretty well.
I'm in the dev tools quite a bit throughout the day, and I find the Firefox dev tools more intuitive. Chrome can take it's 'Elements', 'Sources', 'Application' tabs and shove it - I prefer 'Inspector', 'Debugger', 'Storage'. Honestly it's not a big difference to me. Some people feel strongly about dev tools.
Should I ever be debugging a cross-browser issue, my other (more popular) browsers are clean installs. Nice to have.
Firefox doesn't support integrated windows authentication. That's alright by me.
I don't understand why more people don't demand side tabs.
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I still use Firefox because of a much more important feature: I can bookmark a website into the toolbar with simply dragging and dropping the tab!
Come on Chrome, why the f*ck not is this not possible, why I have to push another button for this!????? Goddamn....
Firefox quantum developer edition is a dream!
Also, in Chrome, infinite opened tabs will result in each tab being infinitely small. In Firefox, tabs can be scrolled through with the mouse wheel.
There's this extension called Tabs Outliner on Chrome that offers really great nested tab functionality (IMO better than FF's Tree-Style Tabs).
I use Firefox on my home machine purely for the performance of Quantum. I still find Chrome extensions superior by far, though. That could change as more WebExtensions are added in FF, but so far I've not found direct equivalents that work just as well.
(For those curious: Tabs Outliner, Quick Tabs, and Google Search Navigator, are my mainstays that I make sure to install wherever I go. I have corresponding extensions in FF (Tree-Style Tabs, Saka and Google Search Keyboard Shortcuts), but they're not equally good.)
The reason I use Firefox is memory consumption. My laptop doesn't get down if I've one IDE running with Firefox. But with chrome I've to code on sublime.
Just use Vivaldi :)
what i hate about firefox is the dev tools, recently they removed the preveiew tab and i really hate iit
I often use split screen, so this is a no for me, also I'm trying to navigate trough tabs using the keyboard.
I'm not familiar with the FF dev tools since ...many yrs ago, did they added all the goodies from Chrome? Debugging, remote debugging (from mobile or node), throttle web requests, multiple resolution/user agents/mobile emulation, load files from local storage & modify them, fire charts, CPU/GPU/Memory analysis?
As a side note I even used Chrome fire charts with data from C#, to measure the performance :))
my only hate for firefox is that firefox on ipad sucks. there, ive used chrome so long now, switching would be a problem.
amazing recommendation! thanks! : )