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Because chrome eats my PCs resources like I eat shredded cheese out of the bag at 3am

fast, no web environment integrity, not run by a tech giant, no anticonsumer changes, NO CHROMIUM, goog wayland support

I switched from Netscape Navigator to Firefox and have used it since. Have tried other browsers but they can't compete.

Because I need to browse the web.

I initially switched because I felt like it had better support for linux and specifically wayland. Then stayed for other features that are mostly mentioned in other comments.

Principle.

inherent distrust of google, which is deeply pervasive

The tree-style tabs extension

To counter a monopoly

I am slowly switching back to Firefox since Google are nerfing ad blockers in Chromium. I'm switching to DuckDuckGo since their search results have become almost unusably bad recently. Unfortunately though, there it's no usuable replacements for the rest of the Google ecosystem as far as my use case is concerned. I'd even ditch Android if there were a reasonable alternative.

Because internet explorer 6 sucked and it has the best ad blocker selection

Icecat takes too long to compile

I started out with using it on the mobile, due to the add-ons being suported, but then Google starten messing around with chrome, announcing changes to the plugin api that would neuter Adblockers and now, the DRM for the web thingy, and I thought enough is enough.

Firefox still has its issues and Chrome does feel more polished, but I'm going with the good guys on this one.

Desktop: Google done fucked up. I didnt use FF cause of one of my extensions but I opted out when they started talking about the DRM for webpages.
Mobile: Its just better with Adblock.

Container tabs and built in tracking protection by default. Mozilla is not Google, unfortunately they depend on their money to survive. Fuck Google.

Its good enough now and mobile addons exist, plus fuck chrome

I use firefox because Lemmy told me to.

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

Tree style tabs in what made me switch to Firefox.

I like that it's not Chrome, and that it's so modifiable.

Also, Edge was using over 2 GB of RAM on my work computer with only one tab open.

I think foxes are cool :)

Works good at browser

good privacy

Because I need a browser.

I like that LibreWolf automatically clears history upon closing.

I used Edge, because it's genuinely an extremely feature packed browser, but when Google announced the manifest v3, I jumped to Firefox.

Unpopular Lemmy opinion, but I hate it. Firefox always freezes on desktop, especially on YouTube. Firefox on Android feels like it was developed for Android 8.0 and never updated. And the worst part is there's a bug on the desktop version in the print preview window when it comes to printing shipping labels, so I have not been able to use Firefox for my company for over 8 months now.

I've reported the bug every time Firefox updates and the bug persists, but Mozilla doesn't give a shit. It's so frustrating.

Because I can.

I don't like Chromium, on mobile it has extension support.

Doing my bit to support the open web. Plus, while it's probably just familiarity, I've always felt that Firefox works with me while Chrome works against me.

It is the only one that can hold my hundreds of tabs. It's also ooensource, but that's a bonus. Recently addblocker is a very good feature too.

Many reasons, but the main one is being able to self-host the sync server. It's just crazy that the entire browsing history of most people on the internet is stored on Google servers, with no e2e encryption!

Because Chrome kept crashing my GPU driver, and Firefox doesn't.

And I used Chrome in the first place because Firefox let malware onto my Windows XP PC. Chrome updated add-ons automatically at that time, and Firefox didn't (not extensions, we're talking things like Macromedia Flash, Shockwave and Java Applets that are long dead now).

It's the best