I made this post a little while back...
I decided to switch to Firefox even though it felt weird to be off Chrome.
This isn't the world's most important news, but I'd like to make note that Firefox is now my default browser and just feels like my natural, normal browser.
In fact, when I go back to Chrome (which I still do plenty of, because I develop for that browser), it feels as weird as Firefox did when I first made the switch.
My muscle memory already thinks of Firefox as synonymous with "browser" in my normal desktop workflow.
Psychology and small user habits are generally what keep people from making consumer switches. Any campaigns to convince many folks to move to a new tool (either by that tool's own marketing or perhaps by third-party activists) should be acknowledging of how ingrained these habits can be, but also aware that the new thing becomes habit quickly enough.
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I remember the initial article you wrote on switching!
Great to hear you have adapted successfully :)
A win for Team Firefox ๐ช
I use the firefox developer edition as my default browser. I just love it!
Are there any resources on how to switch from Chrome to Firefox? I've been attempting on jumping over a few times, but always felt too slow navigating the dev tools or simply unable to find certain features.
I think this is an issue you'll have switching from any product to any similar product. Switching to or from brands of phones, brands of browsers and so on.
This guide - support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/switc... - tells you about importing stuff like bookmarks and so on.
I don't know if there are guides about the developer tools but you could treat it as just a new tool to learn, though I understand one would feel less productive.
My suggestion is to use Firefox beta or the developer edition: mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/channel/...
It's been 2 weeks since I switched from Chrome to Firefox and I am totally loving it. For development, I sometimes use Brave since I am used to Chrome's developer tool but firefox works great for almost everything.
I had tried switching earlier but couldn't but this time I just forced myself for 3-4 days and removed chrome from favorites and in a week I was completely in love.
There are also Ungoogled Chromium builds, I use them as I have Brave as my secondary browser and I don't want to get it full of tabs ๐
I still use it too, and I'm really confortable with it
I've stopped using Chrome altogether. Personal use is Firefox and work is Brave.
I left Chrome like 9 months ago when I read a new about they're making some changes to APIs used by adblockers (and other ugly stuff).
In the end, I was just using Chrome because its bookmarks feature is very good but nowadays I use Raindrop.io
I love Raindrop.io! It's fantastic as a Pocket alternative.
Yeah it's a great service. Did you replace Pocket (read it later) with Raindrop? I've never used Raindrop to read anything nor Pocket to bookmark xD. I use both.
No, I actually decided Raindrop over Pocket originally as a bookmark manager because Raindrop seemed to have more features and configuration. I primarily use it to organize important tabs and save tabs from any device.
The paid version has a permanent labriray. That's a very useful feature!
I use Firefox for my personal browsing and (mostly) Chrome for work stuff.
I prefer Firefox at this point, though in the past my preference has swung back and forth.
I never liked chrome, even Firefoxs dev tools are better, with the exception of Web workers and such.
Been using Firefox for person use for a couple years now.
Use Chromium Edge for work/devtools.
What?
Firefox is better
For the most part, I prefer Firefox. While Chrome tends to rush out new features sooner, Firefox is more standards compliant more often. Only one issue stopping me using it even more than I do, and that's JS breakpoints seem to get stuck sometimes. You remove a breakpoint, restart Firefox and the breakpoint magically reappears. Only workround I've found is to create a new profile.
Actually, I still use both :). Firefox and Google Chrome.