Asklemmy

Honestly I'm just used to it. Using it now for probably about two decades.

Years ago it was the only customizable browser, that's why I started using it. Today it still is the most customizable one, even though other browsers started supporting add-ons and themes too.

• Privacy, security, speed.
• Google has enough of my data and I want to diversify.
• Chrome and Edge are pigs full of feature bloat.

I was a big Netscape fan and when Firefox came out, I adopted it pretty soon. Never left it as I never quite get the hang of Chrome.

On top of what everyone else said: I REALLY hate the UI design of Chrome. We just don’t get along. Firefox always worked well for me.

I was using Mozilla in order to not use Internet Explorer and at some point I switched to their new browser when it was still called Firebird.

Nowadays I stick to it just so Google doesn't get a browser monopoly.

Because the only thing it doesn't have that I miss from edge is the vertical tabs, otherwise its just better in every way that matter to me.

And before someone mentions it, I am aware there are vertical tab options, but none of them are the close enough.

Primarily because I've been using it for much longer than Chrome has been a thing so I'm used to it. But Google's shenanigans are also a factor.

Tree Style Tab

And lack of (what I would consider) a good alternatives.

It's a great web browser and it represents the very concepts of choice and freedom. Chrome isn't better at all, I really only used it because the extension availability felt higher for a while.

I use Firefox when I suspect a site isn't working well with Librewolf. This also implies the site didn't work for Qutebrowser previously

It was my first browser so I stuck with it. I tried other browsers over the years, but I am used to firefox stuff, and ublock works better there.

It’s not Chrome or a Chromium-based browser.

It works great with Wayland and I switched to Firefox mobile as well.

Was originally an Opera user (before they switched away from Presto), then switched to Firefox afterwards.

Firefox was my pick because it was good enough and extremely customizable.

Because it appeals to furries.

Like the logo and it works as well as the alternatives

Originally (more than a decennia ago) because it had better customizability, later because it was less memory hungry.

Extension support/customization.

I used Firefox on the desktop since it was called Firebird. I could mix and match and mush all sorts of crazy things into it over the years. I was very happy with it.

Then Australis (sp?) changed everything on the desktop and broke all my extensions. Some still worked, but since the goal was "be Chrome" I just switched to that.

On mobile it was a similar experience. I could add all sorts of extensions and then one day I just couldn't. All the browsers were basically the same so I switched to Chrome.

One day Chrome added the ability to have the URL bar on the bottom and I was so pleased. Then one day they took it away. I looked online how to get it back and discovered Firefox could do it. Then I learned that as long as I used Firefox Nightly I could install extensions. (I think you can do this in stable now?) Then I learned about a handful of other useful customizations.

I use Firefox mainly. I use Chrome sometimes if I'm testing something, mostly to test "Did I fuck up with my constant customization in Firefox or is this website just stupid?"

I use Firefox because it (generally) let's me decide how it should work.

That's a hard question.

I want Firefox to be better. I've gone back to it many times in 20 years. I'm using it right now.

But I tend to always leave at some point due to performance issues that I can never resolve. I'm having a good run at the moment with the worst of it being a random lockup I can't seem to figure out the cause of (and is pretty much just a task manager close, reopen, and resume...and infrequent enough to not really cause much headache)

But other times i've had memory leaks, or using most of the ram, or terrible addon management. I pretty much tried Chrome in the first place because back whenever Chrome came out, Firefox was using so much memory that I couldn't play games while Firefox was open, and multitasking is one of the things I've always taken as the reason to play games on PC over consoles.

All in all, I think it represents something better, but whether or not it is better is always up in the air. I just hope people stay hard on them to keep trying to improve the system, because i'm sure there's people far further on the fence than I am, and I think firefox is capable of just being a good browser.

I switched when they added tabs in version 1.5 (I think) and it's pretty much the only browser I've seriously used since.

Tried to download a bank statement the other day and Chrome marked it as malware. Also happened with my Internet bill. I'm done with Chrome

bottom navigation is a godsend these days as phone screens are 7". Also adblocker.