They really need to work on making an easier transition from Chrome if they care about converting users. Add an out of the box (preferably default) option to make the tabs look normal and not ugly like they are now. Change the private window shortcut to Cmd(Ctrl)+Shift+N like every browser has standardized on. Also I swear they override the normal text input behaviour, specifically if I'm using option+left/right arrows to jump between tokens in the URL bar, it jumps my cursor to unexpected places, like at the wrong side of periods.

Tangentially related but I also find their devtools very lacking compared to Chrome's. They should straight up rip off everything Chrome does in that department.

What setting is there to make the tabs look better?

They also need to integrate with windows/enterprise setups better, that's one of the main reasons people use chrome based browsers.

You'd think so, you'd really fucking think so, but Firefox is genuinely by far the slowest on Linux. On Windows it's closest to Chrome.

Are you using the Ubuntu Snap to train Firefox? If so, you can switch to the native Debian packages released directly by Mozilla. They don't do that sandboxing stuff, and they are a lot faster. I don't notice any speed difference between Chromium und Firefox even on a Raspberry Pi.

doesn’t 3 imply 2? aren’t people just affectively asking for “something like chrome but with ad blocking”?

what I’m most concerned about is that pretty much all browsers except safari and firefox use Chromium’s rendering engine. for me that alone is a reason for firefox to have to exist.

If you have ublock enabled 3 does not imply 2. I strongly suspect that 3 does not imply 2 generally, but I don't know enough to put any weight behind that statement.

It's a regular occurrence that I visit a page with firefox either on android, or desktop linux, and a basically default ublock origin that fails to render. I generally then try the page in an incognito tab, and then try the page in chrome and it loads, and displays properly.

I'm also maybe moving the goal posts from "have feature parity with Chrome, and render HTML correctly" to "I never have to use vanilla chrome, because vanilla firefox just works". There are cases where sites claim DRM issues with firefox which I can kind of understand, but there are other sites that just refuse to work with vanilla firefox that work with chrome. I of course can't really point to any examples, because they're not sites I regularly visit, but they definitely exist.

Firefox renders HTML just fine: this is a made up complaint by people who don't actually use Firefox regularly.

And Firefox will never reach feature parity with chrome, because Google keeps adding features nobody asked for constantly. That's all they do - constant churn, new APIs, new bullshit. It's not a coincidence, this is how chrome remains on top and how Google forced even Microsoft to exit the browser game.