Because vanilla Firefox has to be tinkered with to get the best out of it and the average user is not able to do it
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I wanted to try Brave a couple of years ago. I ran the installer, and it was one of those pieces of shit installers that just goes ahead and installs without any input from the user, dumping god knows what onto your system, and it puts everything in some obscure AppData subdirectory that can't be deduced without right-clicking the desktop shortcut. I uninstalled it without even launching it once.
If a user is 50/50 on whether or not they just installed malware, you might wanna check your programming practices.
Hmm, I thought I'd find Waterfox mentioned but I didn't. That one gets my recommendation.
Firefox is my main browser but there's a few specific things that only work in chromium.
People will use whatever works for them.
Other than MS Teams, which is garbage by default, I have yet to find anything that's not working in Firefox.
No webRTC apps work for me at all in Firefox. Teams, Zoom, Google Meet, whatever. I can connect but there is no video or audio in either direction.
When I've used Teams for meetings from my home computers, I use the web version (as I don't really want to instal the app.) I've never had an issue with it on Firefox; not even on devices running Linux.
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Firefox was borked on my machine when I started using Brave. Still using it on other machines though
I use FF on android, but on my (ancient) desktop, it just runs like shit, while any of the chromium variants "just work".