> So why do people choose Chrome?

It’s actually kinda simple: they don’t, at least not continuously. It’s “what you use” because you decided that’s true at some point in the past. All you have to do now is decide that some other browser is “what you use”. You can even take it a step further and decide that Chrome is “not what you use”.

(And actually, if you go through with it, you might discover reasons for why you don’t want to switch like “bookmarks” and “saved passwords”. In my opinion, if it is not easy to transfer those things, that is further reason to switch because vendor lock-in is user-hostile.)

Chrome is explicitly “not what I use” however there are literally services I cannot use on a firefox derived browser so I must have a chromium derived browser installed and occasionally use it.

For a normal user they would just switch back to chrome because that is what works, they don’t care about our complaints, they care that what they want to use works.

Because, last time I tried it, Firefox decided to force Pocket integration and I accidentally uploaded some of my bookmarks.

Also performance, but the behaviour of Mozilla is the main reason I keep away.

Pocket - fair enough (though Google probably uploads all it can). But performance? No way. Unless you are talking about Google properties which are specifically un-optimized for Firefox, in which case I don't think it is Firefox you should avoid.

> But performance?

A decade ago, yes. Firefox did have poor performance. It has gotten much better since.