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David Bisset

Lots of market talk recently.

Say is your primary browser (for me it actually is). Says it disappears suddenly tomorrow with no slow death (unlikely but go with it) - what browser would you call your primary one?

@davidbisset Probably GNOME Web, but that's not really nearly as good as Firefox.

@davidbisset No . I reject this whole thing. Use Firefox. Keep Using Firefox

Replace Chrome with anything you want.

Surfing the web is as easy as ABC — Anything But Chrome.

@awoodsnet As I mentioned in the question it's unlikely it will suddenly disappear no matter what happens.

But as a web developer I need to use a browser that at least is used by some measure of my audience. I've been using FF all this time but it's no longer being supported, I would face reality. That reality likely won't be Chrome though.

@davidbisset @awoodsnet I am biased because I worked for Mozilla but the issue is web developers choosing to build and use tools that work “best” in one browser instead of relying on open standards. The IE 5 era was horrible and held the entire industry back.

@davidbisset
chrome edge aren't the same?

opera, Vivaldi, brave

@killua99 some prefer the user interface and what company backs it, etc.

@davidbisset I would use Safari for web dev, Opera or Vivaldi for casual browsing.

But I’m the kind of nerd who has 1 browser for each job.

@anca after Firefox, I would prefer Safari generally, but it’s Dev tools to me are inferior to Chrome. But I have a similar “one browser for each job“ mentality.

@davidbisset yeah. Especially now that 2/3 of the jobs I sign in to are using gmail. I don’t want to accidentally send email or doc shares from the wrong account and there’s no way I remember to check each tab to see who I’m logged in as