Have you looked into Chrome Store Foxified? It automates the conversion, signing, and installation of extensions from the Chrome Web Store into Firefox. https://github.com/Noitidart/Chrome-Store-Foxified (It wasn’t working for a while but it seems that a fix might have finally been discovered.)
Have you checked out Brave browser?
Fork of Chrome and most if not all Google extensions work.
Once again, switching to a fork of Chrome doesn't really help anything, unless you believe that the Brave devs have the will and manpower to actually maintain a hard form of Chromium that would re-enable and maintain features disabled upstream in the long term.
It's like ditching Facebook for Instagram.
Last time I checked Brave looked awful on 4k screen on linux Kde, may be 6 months back. Have they fixed it? I wanted to like it so much but no luck :-(
Seems fine on my imac retina screen and retina mbp.
To be honest all 11 of the extensions I used day on chrome are available and working on Firefox in 2019 compared to a few years back.
Re:Switch from Chrome to Firefox
by CWuestefeld on Thursday May 30, 2019 @02:47PM
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My difficulty is in the other direction. In FF I really rely on TreeStyleTab, and there's no decent alternative in Chrome.
Re:Switch from Chrome to Firefox
by depressedpanda on Thursday May 30, 2019 @09:37PM
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> That and Firefox’s Storage inspector is terrible, there isn’t a native way to clear localstorage during development.
While I agree that the inspector could be improved, this is false. Dev tools > Storage tab > Expand local storage > Select domain > Right click a key/value > Select "Delete all". Done.
Re:Switch from Chrome to Firefox
by reilly3000 on Thursday May 30, 2019 @10:04PM
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Thanks for clarifying that- you are correct. That doesn't seem to work on cache domains, but if I scroll down to other types of storage I can indeed delete items all at once or individually. When I tried that now it wasn't repainting so it appeared to have no effect, but when I refreshed within the Storage inspector the data was gone. When I refresh the page, repainting after deleting started working as expected. Weird.
It would be great if they developed a graph mapping Chrome extensions to Mozilla equivalents. Then the user could confirm installation of the ones with 1:1 parity, like LastPass, allow users to select similar extensions, or skip installing an equivalent.
There are some Chrome-Exclusive extensions that keep me hooked. That and Firefox’s Storage inspector is terrible, there isn’t a native way to clear localstorage during development.