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by pvtmert 1899 days ago
I am actually suprised nobody mentions profiles.

I seperate stuff using profiles (little avatar next to menu button on top-right corner)

Especially important if you want to split your clients' stuff and with your own things. (History, bookmarks, sync)

And sync is the second reason. Of course firefox would work too but they were just late to the game. I already had lots of stuff (bookmarks, history, passwords) to migrate to...

I would prefer Safari for longer battery life, less resource consumption and overall smooth experience (plus privacy features) than Chrome.
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trog 1899 days ago
> And sync is the second reason. Of course firefox would work too but they were just late to the game. I already had lots of stuff (bookmarks, history, passwords) to migrate to...

You probably know this but if you install Firefox now it will prompt you to import all your settings from Chrome. You can also set up sync between all your Firefox instances (including mobile).

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pvtmert 1891 days ago
First couple months it didn't even worked for me. (I was in Turkey at the time)

Also sync matters mostly with mobile. I guess whoever downvoting me just thinks syncing is for desktop...

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newscracker 1899 days ago
On sync, Firefox has had sync from before Google Chrome was publicly released. Depending on when you started using Google Chrome and on which platform, you may have missed noticing that Firefox had it.
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pvtmert 1891 days ago
Firefox's fragmentation in Linux was so bad that I stopped using it. Debian shipped with Iceweasel or ESR, some parts patched/changed.

Compared to chrome (which kept very stable line of features or bugs) ff was mess.

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