[eitland]

I keep wondering why people on HN use Chrome at all three days.

There was a couple of years when people posted demos that only worked in IE^H Chrome but right now everything I need works in Firefox and I don't even see demos that need Chrome anymore.

[Hamuko]

I keep Chrome as a work browser but use Firefox otherwise. I'm not even affected by the V2 manifest removal because I don't keep an adblocker on Chrome.

[lucumo]

For me: because Chrome is the only browser with worry-free sync.

Firefox's sync for example doesn't sync extension settings, search engines and it fails on Android multiple times per day, with the only solution to logout and login again.

[Zak]

> Firefox's sync for example doesn't sync extension settings, search engines and it fails on Android multiple times per day

Chrome for Android doesn't support extensions at all, so I'm a bit confused as to how that's a better experience for you.

[lucumo]

It's not a difficult puzzle: I find an always working and worry-free sync of open tabs more important than having extensions on mobile. I'd like to have those too, but right now I have to choose.

[williamoforange]

Huh, I use FF sync across multiple devices and with extensions, on android etc... never had that issue, my only hitch can be the sync can take a bit for passwords and can't be manually initiated as far as i can tell. Might be the extensions you are using or how cookies are being handled perhaps?

[int_19h]

Vivaldi sync works like clockwork for me across Windows/Linux/Mac/iOS/Android after their last major update in this department.

[lucumo]

I loved Vivaldi's configurability. But it's sync is slightly moody as well. It can fail for a while. Though it is better than Firefox's in that it fixes itself.

But Vivaldi doesn't support bookmarklets and I use those a lot.

[int_19h]

They have completely redone their sync implementation a couple of months ago, which seems to have fixed all the lingering issues (and also added E2EE, which I consider the bare minimum in any case).

[imcritic]

Because Mozilla is as evil as google is and their browser is generally worse than chrome on average.

We are now just entering a timeline where chrome nose dives on that comparison chart of "who is better?" with compared to Firefox.

[stanac]

I won't go into whether FF is worse than chrome, but why do you think Mozilla is as evil as google?

[withinboredom]

I don't know why they particularly think that. But Mozilla developed a way to uniquely track people without their consent or knowledge. I am not ok with that and that is evil to me.

[nickjj]

> But Mozilla developed a way to uniquely track people without their consent or knowledge.

Which setting is that, DNS over HTTPS?

I switched back to Firefox the other day and this setting was enabled by default but it wasn't done silently. When you first launch Firefox a popup comes up saying it's going to be enabled but you have options to turn it off on the spot or click a link to learn more.

[stanac]

It's double edged sword. You have to use DNS either way. Everyone should decide for themselves which DNS to use.

[alt227]

But you can still turn it off in the settings right?

I dont think theres anywhere in google chrome that you can turn off tracking telemetry to google.

[garbagewoman]

not sure about all that but we are certainly in a timeline where nuance isn't valued