> Well, that's a really bad reason to use chrome or some other chromium based browser.

Who said I do, I often have multiple months between every time I use a Chrome or Chrome based browser.

Edit, I use a multipronged approach:

- I use only Firefox - except once in a blue moon to verify if something is an actual Firefox bug or a general bug.

- and develop in Firefox. Bonus: Without testing in any other browsers most weeks I can count on one finger the times I have introduced cross browser defects

- I raise awareness that Mozilla is extracting money from Firefox, not funding it.

- I raise awareness about how Google is pushing to kill competition in the browser markets (besides here on HN and contacting authorities myself I have also urged a grumpy colleague today to contact relevant competition authorities)

- I rise awareness about the likely outcome of a Chrome monoculture: mostly that ad blocking will disappear, the web as a platform will stagnate and we will have to live with more nasty restrictions.