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Because of FoxyGestures, I can't find a good replacement for this on Chromium based browsers.
Because of uBlock Origin, Firefox has the full version, on mobile too.
Because Google Chrome can scan my files system for “malware” and improving their ad data, in other words their spying goes too far.
Because of the customisability of the UI.
Because I can tweak every variable (visit about:config)
Because if you turn telemetry off, it's actually off, Google lies about that.
Because Google's market share is so big, that they have the guts to try and DRM the entire Internet for their browser, no company should have that much power.