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2 things keep me on Chrome. First, the overly large titlebar on Linux. I've tried some addons to make it more like Chrome but they all look like shit. And second, the dev tools. I find dev tools in Firefox clumsy to use. I believe I originally switched to Chrome for the dev tools when I ventured into frontend development.


Chrome's chrome (heh) is larger than Firefox's for me. I hate how large its titlebar is. They made it larger in the past couple releases, actually.


Have you tried something like [1]? I don't know if it works on Linux but it's a big improvement if you prefer vertical space.

[1] https://testpilot.firefox.com/experiments/tab-center


> the overly large titlebar on Linux

Just installed Chromium to compare. When maximized, the Chromium title bar is 65px high on my system, whereas Firefox's takes 70px. I should note, though, that I have set my window manager to hide the default window decoration on maximized windows, which helps.




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