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by jlokier 564 days ago
I use Firefox as my main browser on a Mac. A lot, every day - I have about 30 Firefox windows open now. But there are a number of things that only work in Chrome or Safari.

So I also use Ungoogled Chromium. I have about 3 Ungoogled Chromium windows open now.

Occasionally a banking, financial service, shopping or video meeting site doesn't work right in Firefox. I've had some site logins just spin forever in Firefox, and work immediately in Chromiun.

For example, for work with one company we use Google video meetings a lot. In theory this works in Firefox, but in practice sometimes the audio doesn't work. The microphone volume gets set to zero, unpredictably. It's flaky enough that I switched to Ungoogled Chromium for those, and decided to use it for all the Google Workspace linked services for that company, as well as AWS, Hetzner etc accounts linked with that company.

Chromium's profiles are good, with clear separation and a reasonable UI. So are Firefox containers, but in different ways.

Firefox automatic per-site container selection doesn't work at all well when you have multiple accounts on the same site, though. It doesn't group container-switching according to working context. So I have a couple of Ungoogled Chromium profiles for work with different companies.

Finally, Chrome renders print-to-PDF better for some use-cases, so I use Ungoogled Chromium to generate invoices and similar documents. Firefox print-to-PDF works, but I could never get ruled lines to be.a good thickness on the printed page. They were always too thick, or invisible. Firefox did better pagination last time tried it, though.