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-Just to warn you, this post is a bit bias, I personally prefer firefox, so my answer -will obviously be firefox, yes, firefox is not the king of privacy, but I still think -it's great, here's why.
-Firefox is less heavy and less bloated, it's not as much of a resource, space -and in general firefox is more light and is smaller than chrome, chromium, etc. -it also takes less time to compile which matters to me a lot because I compile everything -from source, chromium takes ~60 times as much to compile as firefox and chromium is written -in C++ unlike firefox - in rust and rust is known to be slow at compiling so if firefox -switched back to C++ - firefox would be even faster to compile.
-Chromium also has a messier codebase so that also makes it prune to bugs and generally misshaps and stuff. -Firefox's LoC is 21 milion where chromium has 35.
-Firefox uses a less bloated, but less performant web engine - gecko, the efficiency is not -bad imo, but slower than blink, though as it's lighter - i prefer it.
-Firefox is easier to harden making it nice for people who are willing to spend -the time tinkering around with it nicer, chromium is a bit a pain in the ass -and as far as I see the most you can harden it easily is to install a few googled -addons and that's it where with firefox you can do a lot more. Firefox is great for -tinkerers and people who like customisation.
-Firefox allows for more customisation through user.js script (mainly for preferences) and
-userChrome.css which is great again, for people who are willing to spend the time customising it.
-I prefonally made firefox's interface minimalist with my userChrome and it's nice, where with
-chromium I don't think I can do that AFAIK.
Chromium and chrome are the most popular browsers out there, so they expect most people using -them to be "tech normies" (explained what they are in one of my blog posts), so they add all that -various abstraction and hiding making it hard for anyone to debug it.
-As firefox is not as targeted to an average windows user who just wants to click buttons -they have good debugging tools, I mainly use it for debugging front-end, but their javascript -debugging is fine too.
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