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It's the only viable browser engine that isn't chromium-based. And it's open source and very functional.

Because I like it the best

Who's asking?

I use it to protest Google's bullshit, but I still acknowledge all problems Firefox has and that all in all, Chromium is superior in many ways

Not Chromium, Extremely customizable and configurable, and add-on support on mobile, to name a few reasons.

It's a good compromise of everything I care about regarding a digital product.

It’s the default browser on my computer, and it doesn’t suck, so I’m not motivated to seek an alternative.

To be honest, because it was pre-installed in Linux Mint. I got a first laptop, and I didn't know differences between Windows and GNU+Linux. Hell, I was searching for "pure Linux". I didn't know that's just kernel, neither what kernel is anyway. And I just decided for Mint. At the time, I considered Windows "just another distribution or whatever".

I did get to briefly use school computers before that. There I preferred internet explorer over both Chrome and Firefox. Yeah. Chrome kept crashing, Firefox didn't load many pages (it was probably well outdated) but IE just worked, much faster than Chrome, somehow.

Because at the time I started using it, it was still Mozilla and the other alternative was Internet Explorer, the browser from Microsoft - the Evil Empire of that time - which was riddled with security holes (the whole ActiveX stuff, especially, was a complete total mess).

Later Chrome became more fashionable but to me it was already obvious that Google's "Do No Evil" slogal was complete total bollocks (plus it came out in the Snowden revelations how Google was used for civil society surveillance, plus by then they had become mainly an Ad Company with a search engine, hence anti-privacy) and I wasn't about to trust what already back then looked like the up and coming New Evil Empire with access to my computer and browsing habits.

Mind you, I did use Chrome on my Android devices, but that was because I expected the OS itself to be rigged like crazy for privacy intrusion and worse so avoiding Chrome there did very little to reduce my privacy exposure in there, though eventually I moved to Firefox there too.

Best non-chromium browser. More customisable.

Because the only thing it doesn't have that I miss from edge is the vertical tabs, otherwise its just better in every way that matter to me.

And before someone mentions it, I am aware there are vertical tab options, but none of them are the close enough.

I use WaterFox.

It has less tracking and more built-in privacy features than Firefox but is built on the same base

I use Fennec on mobile.

There are no other options.

I hope ladybird will become usable in few years.

I like Lynx

I use Firefox because Internet Explorer 4 kind of sucks, and I haven't re-assessed my browser choice since then.

The developer tools are top notch. Chrome is slower and sucks.

Honestly I'm just used to it. Using it now for probably about two decades.

Because brain.

On top of what everyone else said: I REALLY hate the UI design of Chrome. We just don’t get along. Firefox always worked well for me.

Back in the days when Netscape Navigator went down, I switched to then-new Firefox.

I have had no reason to not use it. With mods Firefox even allows me to keep the UI looking exactly the same as it did with version 3.x, where everything is just where I want it to be.

Change just for the sake of change is pointless.

• Privacy, security, speed.
• Google has enough of my data and I want to diversify.
• Chrome and Edge are pigs full of feature bloat.

Primarily because I've been using it for much longer than Chrome has been a thing so I'm used to it. But Google's shenanigans are also a factor.

I switched to chrome for a few years but went back to Firefox about 3 years ago. Google can piss off as far as I’m concerned.

Before Google started being openly evil and Firefox was pretty slow by comparison, I kept using Firefox for 2 reasons: mobile add-ons and the "Container Tabs" addon which doesn't (or at least didn't) have a chome analog. Now I've degoogled and also it seems faster in those occasions when I have to use chrome at work.

I was using Mozilla in order to not use Internet Explorer and at some point I switched to their new browser when it was still called Firebird.

Nowadays I stick to it just so Google doesn't get a browser monopoly.

I just don't like monopolies, and right now everything else is chrome

It’s not Chrome or a Chromium-based browser.

Have you ever used it's DevTools? Chrome DevTools feels outdated in comparison

Because I used the old mozilla browser back in the 90s and when it switched to calling firefox I kept on using it.

I'm not sure if using Librewolf on desktop or Mull on mobile counts but they are pretty good hardened forks of Firefox.

Firefox is great but the downside is that it isn't as private as browsers I've mentioned by default. Still, it is solid choice from privacy perspective.

Extension support/customization.

I used Firefox on the desktop since it was called Firebird. I could mix and match and mush all sorts of crazy things into it over the years. I was very happy with it.

Then Australis (sp?) changed everything on the desktop and broke all my extensions. Some still worked, but since the goal was "be Chrome" I just switched to that.

On mobile it was a similar experience. I could add all sorts of extensions and then one day I just couldn't. All the browsers were basically the same so I switched to Chrome.

One day Chrome added the ability to have the URL bar on the bottom and I was so pleased. Then one day they took it away. I looked online how to get it back and discovered Firefox could do it. Then I learned that as long as I used Firefox Nightly I could install extensions. (I think you can do this in stable now?) Then I learned about a handful of other useful customizations.

I use Firefox mainly. I use Chrome sometimes if I'm testing something, mostly to test "Did I fuck up with my constant customization in Firefox or is this website just stupid?"

I use Firefox because it (generally) let's me decide how it should work.

My FFFL Tatoo is gonna be so rad.

Privacy primarily and less likely to be targeted for widespread attack because there's a fraction of the user base Chrome enjoys.