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I have been using Firefox since I can remember. That it is open source is a huge plus. The features it offers are great.

I really like the developer tools. I always the install the developer edition (which is basically just the beta) and I find the defaults and menus more intuitive than Chrome’s, though at this point, they’re probably at feature parity. I could probably get Chrome to work how I want by changing settings but why? It’s not faster or better at this point.

I have ideological reasons too but honestly, the main reason is just that I like Firefox better. As a developer, it’s also nice to have Chromium (or Google Chrome) completely clean. If there’s a bug I can’t recreate in Firefox, I can open Chrome with no extensions or cache. Since that’s sort of the “default” for most users, it’s nice to keep my daily driver separate.

I use it since I know computers and it's better for Adblockimg than Chromium based browsers nowdays.

For me, it's not as memory efficient as something like Edge, but it handles having a lot of tabs open much better. It also has a lot of powerful features under the hood, and some really good power user addons, like Tab Groups.

Chrome on android becomes unbearable with ads, and full screen vid ads when i just want to read the news. Use ff for the addon.

Originally I started to use it because I'd heard there was a new update to its rendering engine that made it feel faster/better than chrome. After testing it out I did think it felt better at the very least. Now I'm using it mostly for the same reasons and to reduce my dependence on Google/Chrome.

More open and honest and fight for privacy. Also their devtools are top notch.

Tree style tabs. Can't live without it anymore

I've been using Firefox since 2002 when it first became available, at that point it was called Mozilla. It's definitely the browser that I've used the most in about 25 years of browsing the Internet from home. Firefox has a great native Linux version and seems to be widely promoted by most distros. Since switching to Linux seven years ago I also started using Chromium (not to be confused with Chrome) and Opera, both of which also have great native Linux versions.

Because Chromium and its derivatives suck. Is it really too much to ask for a traditional menu bar rather than a stupid hamburger menu?

I was shown it by a mate, along with soulseek, in like, 2006 or so when in sixth form. It was way better than what I was using at the time (IE)

At least that's what I remember, pretty sure that was the date. I remember soulseek was before by a bit actually as we used it for trading At the Drive In and Mars Volta tracks

I've carried on using it because of plugins, adblocks, privacy, etc.

I only use it so that I can watch DRM content (Udemy, HBO, etc)

Privacy, real ad-blocking, and fighting for the open web. Also, actually being free software.

It doesn't suck and just works. Really well customizable and adblocking/ security is better than what chrome has turned into. Chrome used to be decent but is garbage now. I'd rather use edge before chrome.

Firefox supports a font technology for less common scripts, Graphite, that the for-profit-corporate browsers do not. I use one of those scripts once in a great while. So I'm locked in until OpenType has better support.

I can't find any reason to use an alternative browser

For add-ons, mostly. I use Tree-Style Tabs and can't live without it at this point.

Because I never particularly liked the alternatives.

Honestly, when I got my first Ubuntu install disk and got everything up and running, it was the default browser. I just never looked back.

When someone built a form that for some reasons doesn’t work with Safari. Or when watching streaming sites with pop ups (FF full screen is really nice in the recent update).

I’d use it more, but I rely on iCloud password management built into safari across my family’s devices and handoff/tab groups to manage tabs across them.

Cause it's the Red Panda browser, cuddly creatures🥰

It came preinstalled.

Trust. I think it has been earned - so far. NCSA Mosaic was my second browser, and while I've experimented with all the major browsers and many not-so-major contenders over the interim couple of decades, Firefox has been a constant for me ever since it was first spawned off of Mozilla. I still believe the Firefox team when they say things, and so far that has worked out just fine.

Ctrl+Tab cycles to previous active tab and is actually useful.

because i'm a furry