>but I am baffled as to why people are so resistant to just switching to Firefox.
Somehow Chrome has fried my brain and I can't stand the UX of other browsers. I understand you may be asking "how bad can it be? Its just a browser?" but when I use other things (even Safari) it just doesn't cut the mustard.
I get it, change is hard, but sometimes you need to do it. How bad would your living situation have to get before you considered moving? I know many people let it get really, really bad... IMO a key to happiness is making changes when you can and resisting the lure of convenience.
It depends on what you value. Why expend this effort to switch to a browser that is itself developed by a group of B players and that itself could enshittify any time it wants to? Chrome hasn't gotten to a painful point yet. Maybe once they rollout the V2 block to all users(there are still a lot of enterprise that does not auto upgrade on their own) then we will see more uptick in Firefox or some other alternative.
Somehow Chrome has fried my brain and I can't stand the UX of other browsers. I understand you may be asking "how bad can it be? Its just a browser?" but when I use other things (even Safari) it just doesn't cut the mustard.