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Discussion on: What is your current browser for personal use? Pro and cons?

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Nazmus Sakib

Firefox for both web & android.

I do believe chromium browsers are more mature and got better UX than firefox. But I have trust issues.

Good thing about firefox mobile is the extension support. I can't live without an ad-blocker. I also use the built-in password manager across devices. I trust it more than it's chromium counterpart. I haven’t found a minimal, free and trustworthy third party password manager yet.

Now that firefox is quickly losing market share. I feel worried about the future of my browser-choice!

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Nicolas Quijano

Firefox has been chromium based for a while in case you didn't know : all the major browsers are, be it Chrome, Firefox, Edge or Opera.
All Chromium all the time ;)

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maxdevjs

Any source about it? :O

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Nicolas Quijano

There are parts of chromium in current Firefox for the new extensions standard no believe.
Firefox Focus is chromium based
They mention it in odd places but didn't find a big announcement and the html renderer is still Gecko AFAIK

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maxdevjs

Oh, I can believe it. Almost all "modern" browsers now implement the same extension API, it even makes sense to copy/paste that code

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maxdevjs • Edited

I hope FF will be healthy for a long time to come. On which OS do you use it (desktop version)?