I've been using Firefox for a while now, but I have some issues with it:
1. I need to switch to chrome for various products such as Google Meet (works on Firefox, but I ran into performance (call quality) issues).
2. I often find sites with bad support for Firefox, and I need to again open a second browser (usually Chrome) to check them out.
3. It seems that in the past... long time, they have a talent of making Firefox worst. I still like it if it wasn't for the other 2 issues, but who can tell in 1 year.
Due to the above I was looking for a browser (one, I don't like having multiple on my machine but not sure if the Google Meet performance upgrade is just in Chrome or Chromium) which is as fast as Firefox, has a nice UI and preferably a bit more privacy oriented (not much, just a bit more).
Any ideas? (Currently checking out Vivaldi, but read a lot about performance issues + I don't really like the default UI yet).
Chrome is spyware, Edge is spyware, Brave has too many crypto sponsor for my liking, Firefox is going off a cliff, Vivaldi is the definition of bloat.
The web browser ecosystem is frankly appalling, and it's so complicated it's impossible for new competitors to appear and improve the status quo. We just have to put up with it, and I am furious Mozilla, one of the shining beacons on that landscape, now is sitting idle redesigning the UI just to justify their existence.
I use Edge, with custom scripts to turn off as much phoning home as possible, and it's still bad.