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It's a combination of FireFox being the least shit and the most functional option, really. Still kind of shit by default, so I go for Librewolf. Also I've been using it since Firebird.
Overall the browser market is depressing.
What do you like about Librewolf? I’m kind of sceptical of browsers like that, especially in terms of timely security updates.
Librewolf just gives me more sane defaults. Saves me trouble of having to dig in to about:config and trying to figure out what needs to be changed. Generally its releases follow FireFox in reasonable time. A few updates have messed things up, but it's rare. I guess the big thing is that Librewolf saves me some effort.