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Been enjoying Edge for a year, but always appreciated FF for it being it's own thing. Worth a shot?
Definitely. Check out our switching guide for some tips.
I use edge at work (nothing else available), Firefox everywhere else.
It would be nice if more add-ons were supported on mobile, desktop is great.
Uh, you might really want to rethink using edge: https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2023/06/edge-browser-feature-sends-images-you-view-back-to-microsoft
https://www.theverge.com/2023/4/25/23697532/microsoft-edge-browser-url-leak-bing-privacy
And the new grammar feature that sends all text you write anywhere in edge to Microsoft, kind of a big deal?
Certainly. It's really important to have as many people as possible using a different browser engine (Gecko) in this Chromium-dominated world.
And ... uBlock Origin works the best on Firefox (https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/uBlock-Origin-works-best-on-Firefox).
I genuinely think the web has become horrible enough where the browser you use does not really matter from the technical perspective.
It does, however, incredibly important to have more than 1 engine competing, as currently Firefox is the only mainstream browser not built on chromium/google.
Firefox was great, went to shit for a couple of years, and is now back to being great again. I've heard it's much easier on memory as well.
It's one of the few non-chromium browsers left, so you should definitely try it because Google is trying to make their own standards with chromium.
It's literally the only non-chromium browser left other than Safari. That's why it is critically important that Firefox maintain a presence