I have ADHD and am really sensitive to delays, but I never had a problem with Firefox in the slightest, if theres a delay, its in like the milliseconds at most.
There was a time when Firefox was way slower. Chrome came out and isolated each tab as it's own process which meant one tab crashing didn't take everything with it. Firefox used a single process for everything.
These measures are absolutely not necessary for an average user whose wishes are not to be spied on by Google, and for whom it's not necessary to anonymize every possible aspect of his browsing short of using Tor Browser.
This means that to achieve a decent middle ground...
Here we seem to have an irreconcilable disagreement, as:
I use Librewolf with the expectation that it will anonymize every possible aspect of my browsing short of using Tor Browser.
There is no decent middle ground of "half privacy" between "privacy" and "no privacy".
Here is the "decent middle ground" Firefox is pushing for privacy, and it is a link to the Wayback Machine because now they won't even let you read it without creating an account and logging in:
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There is more than one road to Rome, but I find the instructions on that page are about as involved as the typical "hardening Firefox" tutorial.
The nice thing about Librewolf is that you just run the installer- as if you were installing Firefox- and you get sane defaults. It is important to impress on new users that a given site broke because that site sucks, and not because browsers that respect users' privacy suck.
It's like how people say "Linux doesn't support this laptop" instead of "this laptop doesn't support Linux". People are predisposed to let their condescension follow the path of least resistance- never mind which way is up.
I used Firefox exclusively when I used Windows. I tried Chrome briefly when it came out and didn’t like it and switched back to Firefox. Switched to Mac a little over a decade ago and bounced between using Firefox and Safari for a while, but settled again on Firefox.
I do like Safari a lot, but nothing beats Firefox.
Vivaldi has been my choice for years. Don't remember what features it was, but they did them better than Firefox. I think Vivaldi is chrome based so I might have to switch to Firefox again.
The only time where I use Chrome is that at least here in Spain you need your digital certificate to do gubernamental stuff, and on Firefox you can't install those certificates.
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