I have no idea but when I mention Firefox my colleagues under 35 or so literally think I'm joking.

What browsers would you recommend? I use Brave but it's still Chromium under the hood. It's the only one that I never had trouble with adblock though. Also lets me play youtube on mobile when my screen is locked.

I agree. This is Google doing underhanded Google-things. Why the hell would anyone trust them in the first place?

> Why use a browser from Google or Microsoft in 2026? Why in the world?

There are only three major browser rendering engines. One is Gecko, by Mozilla. One is Webkit, currently tended to by Apple. And one is Blink, which is Google/Microsoft. Of those, Blink is the most featureful. That's why.

Exactly my thoughts. There are so many good alternatives already, it's insane to me that people still use this garbage. LibreWolf is a godsend

Why in the world do people keep shipping Chrome with their pseudo native applications?

Easy. You work for a company that has only whitelisted chrome or edge.

I use Chrome because at Google Meet it renders a nice separate window with mute/unmute controls as you switch to another tab and screen share.

Curious if Google plans to allow other browsers doing that too.

i use chrome enterprise for my personal use, which is managed via the google workspace admin.

you would think google is not stupid enough to mess with gcp account holders

Because ladybird isn’t alpha yet, and Firefox is a mess.

It's the browser that annoys me the least. Almost everything just works.

because it's really well developed and Just Works

What are the alternatives? Only a massively moneyed corp has the resources to fight vulns at acceptable rates. Firefox doesn’t count because they’re being funded by Google.

Thank you. Exactly this question. Full stop.