[hart_russell]

Getting rid of manifest v2 and propping up a scam extension. Chrome is looking more and more disgusting

[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.

[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.

[relistan]

You have to think about how Google abandoned Firefox, which at the time was quite good, in order to build their own browser. It was always about control and owning the data. They fund their business with advertising spread all over the internet. Manifest v2 allowed their browser to run extensions that block the ads that pay for Chrome to exist.

[rafram]

Firefox was OK. I think people forget how much better it’s become since Chrome came out. V8 was so much faster than SpiderMonkey at first.

(I would argue that Chrome was targeted primarily at IE, though.)

[yard2010]

Use Vivaldi. Feel the internet like it's 2010 again. Vivaldi for the win.

[Ygg2]

Also Chromium based.