To be fair, Chrome is actually pretty good at some things. I noticed when building an infinite feed of Lemmy posts, Chrome required zero optimization to render hundreds of posts at once. Safari was a different story. I had to rebuild my feed of posts with some pretty complex list virtualization to get Safari to be performant.

I wish I remembered what Firefox was like at the time, but I don’t. Possible it’s also very performant. But as a developer, Chrome is way more enjoyable to build for.

This is NOT an endorsement for Chrome. I absolutely hate Google. Just wanted to provide my perspective as a developer. And maybe that also explains the high ram usage of Chrome since there’s some ✨magic✨ optimization happening that Safari lacks.

Oh Firefox, I still haven't moved on from that "study" which was just a ad for a TV show. I disable studies on every machine I touch now.

I laughed at Opera. Most of these are spot on.

if they didn't turn to shit constantly perhaps more people would consider switching over

And they seem really committed to ensure that remains the case.

Mozilla: message received, people don't want support for manifest V2

Try LibreWolf and IronFox sometime. It's Firefox with less BS.

My favorite so far has been Zen Browser.

Librewolf up in this piece

Waterfox for heavy-duty online-exam stuff etc. links2 -g for wikipedia and browsing.

Ever since hearing about Mullvad having their own ( Mull ), I haven't switched back and I'm glad. Looks real polished and runs a lot quicker on both my Linux running laptop and win10 desktop. Even with my laptop being much better specs, speeds are consistently bad for page loading times on Firefox.

Haven't checked on how fast Librewolf is, but I'm sure it'd also be faster.

I do like the way base FF does vertical tabs, though. The only reason I still main that browser for longer web surfing sessions.

If I know exactly where I'm going I use LW, though.

BTW do people really keep the default functionality of LW to clear all login cookies? I know it's more secure, but kind of a pain to have to sign in to rainwave.cc or whatever every new session.

I like librawolf on Linux, but a lot of pages break

Is palemoon still around, striped down, and good?

I find Firefox performance on Android much better than WebView browsers (this is on GrapheneOS, so it's the hardened WebView / Vanadium, perhaps that is why)

Left to what? Where?

Yes. I also love Firefox but for reasons that are in the exact opposite direction of "AI chatbot integration that can only be fully disabled with about:config".

Edit: I should add that, at least for me, the "optional" status of the AI chat features in the sidebar depended on whether tabs were set to horizontal or vertical. For vertical tabs, the only way to disable AI chat in the sidebar was with about:config, and I would still prefer if such a specific feature wasn't bundled with the browser.

Librewulf is my go-to.

I'm using Zen. It's been pretty OK.

i moved on from waterfox when the 'classic' fork had to be added. I can't even remember what it was that waterfox was doing now, but it was irritating that I had to deal with some slop making it in.