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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
Shrug, it’s been a while and I don’t remember which affected my decision at the time.
You can probably get around your paypal problems by telling them your Firefox is Chrome.
https://github.com/ray-lothian/UserAgent-Switcher
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
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