Using Chrome at work and Firefox at home, the only features I missed were low-effort 'translate this page' and extensionless reverse image search.

Wise Google have decided to remove the second point by replacing it with terrible Lens.

The differences aren't really important any more. Both have converged on similar UIs, both have important privacy extensions, both have password managers and payment storage. My only caveat for suggesting Firefox is that it's a possible frying pan -> fire situation, since they push their own revenue-building tat and get paid by Google.

You can use Mozilla's offline translate extension - it doesn't support many languages but it works.

I installed Brave the other day, and it has a page translation feature.

That's promising: I've so far only tried it when it was young and unstable

I've used Firefox as my main browser for 15+ years, and the only times I've needed Chrome have been for performance-related reasons in some browser games or some heavier sites. Though recently it feels like firefox's performance has gotten better and I rarely find myself having to launch chrome anymore.

I quite dislike all the crap they try to tack on like Sync or Pocket, sometimes cluttering the UI after an update. But still everything can be disabled, so not too much of an annoyance.

I wouldn't use Firefox if it cloudn't sync history and bookmarks between computers and my phone. Sending tabs is also a nice bonus.

> I have been using Firefox since version 2.x and I never understood what downsides people find with it.

For some weird reason somes sites just dont open on Firefox on my work computer when I connect to the company VPN on it. Safari and Chrome can open all sites just fine.

I really want to use Firefox especially for the container feature but just cannot figure out why somes sites dont work when I on the vpn.

When you say don't open, what do you mean? Sometimes companies configure their SSL cert in only safari and chrome, so you might be able to just add it to Firefox's store.

It could be that the proxy is set up as a non-system proxy too, so you could try checking Chrome's configured proxy and setting it in settings.

Firefox's branding has always felt a little unusual to me. not as bad as some other popular free apps (SumatraPDF, VLC) but perhaps that subconsciously puts people off? Chrome has always looked and sounded quite clean and cool in comparison. I say this as someone who only ever uses FF or Safari