Experimenting switching from Mozilla Firefox to Google Chrome

I’ve been using Firefox as my main browser for a lot of years (including on my smartphone, where I use Firefox Focus), but lately it feels like using it is very slow, specially with a lot of browsers open, and the same issue happens with some websites too (Google products and others). I also have a hunch that my problems with the WordPress block editor being laggy while I typed is browser related too. I also want to try some new things (like WebMCP or the WordPress browser extension) that are available first on Chrome.

So, starting today I will start using Google Chrome as my main browser.

One of the first things I wanted to do was to move the tabs to the sidebar. This required to enable Vertical Tabs in the Experiments settings in chrome://flags/#vertical-tabs, restarting the browser and clicking in one of the tabs and selecting Show tabs vertically. I haven’t found a setting to move this sidebar to the right side (which is what I use in Firefox), and I don’t want to install an extension just for that, so I’ll try to get used to this.

Besides this, I installed some extensions, like OneTab (which was really useful to migrate all open tabs from one browser to another), Joplin Web Clipper and Bitwarden. And as an additional experiment I added the Reading Mode icon at the top to see if this could be helpful for some sites with a lot of advertisements.

Let’s see how this goes, but I’m already happy that I can type this post in the block editor without any noticeable lag (to be fair, this post is small, so it probably won’t have this issue).