I’ve been using it for years, first out of disdain for Internet Explorer, now out of disdain for Google Chrome. I just do not trust the corpos at all, and Firefox has always been solid(outside of a few years in the '10s).

Becuase the other browsers suck.

Because it’s one of the last few browsers that’s usable and not based on Chrome/Chromium

• Open source
• Reasonably privacy respecting (could be better OOB)
• Extensions that further enhance privacy and remove unwanted annoyances from pages
• Cool logo

good balance of functionality and privacy. keeps my tabs synced between mobile and desktop. that’s…that’s about it.

Because it’s not actively trying to make ad-blockers not work like Chrome.

Because I like it, it ain’t Google and it looks great on my gnome desktop.

It’s a great OSS browser. There should be at least one alternative rendering engine to Googles Chromium.

Coolest logo

To stay away from the influence of google’s business practices and their influence on chromium.

Chrome did something that annoyed me a couple of years ago. I can’t even remember what it did. I just remember going “you have annoyed me for the final time! I’m replacing you with Firefox!” I wish I could say it was because Google is evil, but it may well have been something far more petty.

Because I enjoy freedom and privacy

It’s just… always been my main browser.

I dislike Mozilla less than I dislike Google, but not much! Besides that, Firefox has more functionality.

[Meta] I don’t think there’s a need to cross-post this within Beehaw. Beehaw is low-activity as it is (in terms of new posts) so most people here would be just browsing new/local so they’d be seeing this post in their feed twice.

Even if you’re not browsing by local, most people in this community would likely also be subscribed to the Technology community as well, so again, there’s a double-up.