"Hang on to Your Firefox"

What's this about?

An argument for keeping Firefox installed and in use, landing the day after Google removed the MV2 extensions from the Chrome Web Store.

Why does browser diversity matter in practice?

Because web standards are defined by what browsers implement, and when one engine has overwhelming share, its vendor's decisions become the standard by default. Manifest V3 is the current example: a change to what extensions may do, made by the company that sells the ads those extensions block, which is now simply how the web works. A second engine with real users is the only structural check, which is why "just use Firefox" is a technical argument as much as a preference.

What's the community saying?

1. The opening note of resignation — people just do not care, and like climate change, nothing effective will be done — draws a substantial pushback.
2. The best counter: the existence of a Firefox userbase *is* the evidence of caring, since you have to go out of your way to avoid Chromium. Install it for non-technical friends, set them up with uBO, be the change.
3. The honest complaint from a Firefox user: it is hard to keep using — high RAM, constant CPU with nothing happening, an unhelpful task manager.
4. That opens a long and surprisingly warm digression about tab hoarding, with one person dumping `recovery.jsonlz4` when the count reaches four figures.