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by rosmax_1337 1899 days ago
I won't make a blog-post detailing things, since you could just as well google your way into those details. Instead I'll note down:

- Best devtools, particularity regarding how the tools feel to browse around in.

- Feels slightly better to browse with. Only small differences, like how scroll is just a bit "smooth".

- Looks better ui-wise. (arguably a personal take, but also arguably not)

- (as others will note) Because it's essentially standard at this point, and I work with webdev.

I use chromium though, at least it makes things less google-y. And I thoroughly dislike the Alphabet-monopoly situation and all the bad things it brings. I really wish browsers were far less centralized than they are right now, and that some kind of web-standards consortium worked better than it does. But I don't pretend to be able to fix things like that right now. Besides, at this point, the whole Alphabet-monopoly situation is arguably a political issue rather than a technical one. (Political issues require political solutions)

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>Best devtools, particularity regarding how the tools feel to browse around in.

been using firefox for about 5 years now, whenever i have to debug in chromium based browser I think the exact same thing about firefox. I feel like this could be a case of whatever you are used to. Like how android feels vs ios

Agree with you there. I find Firefox css devtools the best and while other browsers copied them they were the ones that implements them first. The big ones are the flex and grid layout tools and having a list of styles changes you made in the devtools.
Good reminder about chromium, I should install that too. The phone home requests while not even browsing with chrome is simply said excessive
This bothers me. I wonder if it is legal at all. Browser does not need to call home to work, so what gives?