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I really loved Firefox. In the days of "XUL addons", actual freedom. Mozilla didn't police what addon can be installed and which cannot (in current desktop Firefox you can't install and keep enabled an extension which is not cryptographically signed by Mozilla). Addons had access to everything, so many interesting things were done via them, a lot of custom GUI stuff. Then "XUL addons" were thrashed, new crippled API implemented and suddenly Firefox felt like Chrome with their few limited extensions (compared to what FF used to have), only slower. Now I merely *use* Firefox even though I don't like it much. Main reason why I don't use Chrome (Chromium) as my main browser is I dislike Google even more. I wish there was an alternative browser which continues where FF failed - with rich addon API and with open-source spirit (no authoritarian bs like Mozilla and Google are doing).