I ditched Google Chrome for Firefox for a week, and I finally see the appeal

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Windows laptop showing Chrome and Firefox side by side

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Chrome is one of the easiest browsers to pick up and use, but that simplicity comes at a cost. It takes half a dozen extensions, settings tweaks, and hidden flags to make Chrome do what browsers like Firefox already do out of the box. But the main reason I finally made the switch was privacy. Firefox is open-source, one of the few major non-Chromium browsers still standing.

So I decided to test the waters and used it for a full week. Spoiler alert: I loved it.