• hayes_@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Personal anecdote:

    When I initially decided to drop Chrome, I moved to Brave because - as a chromium-based browser - it supported the same set of extensions I’d grown accustomed to.

    That being said, the crypto stuff weirded me out enough that, once I’d weaned myself off the extensions, I switched to Firefox.

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      1 year ago

      What extensions does chrome have which are useful that Firefox doesn’t?

      My only recurring issue with Firefox, which may have been fixed I dunno, is it for some reason it “isn’t officially supported” or whatever exact wording to use hardware security keys (like yubikey, which I use on every account that allows it). It’s only certain websites that don’t want to work though. Like google, Microsoft and many others were fine but I think paypal didn’t want to work properly but it does work on Edge, Chrome, probably Brave. Overall annoying as fuck at times but I deal with it to be out of Google’s-world

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        1 year ago

        Only one I missed was PushBullet, it was the easiest way to text from browser and get articles from phone/computer. Nothing I’ve tried on Firefox has worked as well

      • zeus ⁧ ⁧ ∽↯∼@lemm.ee
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        1 year ago

        at the time; the great suspender (although that’s dead on chrome now too)

        project naptha is the only one that has stuck with me since i left chrome, and has no firefox alternative to my knowledge