After having read this comment about Firefox on 9to5Linux (it starts with “Firefox has been making a history of bad decisions”), I was reminded that I can’t use only one browser, and that I need both Firefox and a Chromium-based second browser. I don’t understand how people can’t see that Firefox lacks features present in Chromium/Chrome/Edge, and Chromium/Chrome/Edge lacks features present in Firefox!

In other words, most people are stupid. But users of GNOME can’t understand why Files (the castrated Nautilus) needs a multi-column list view like in the original Nautilus, and then Caja, Thunar, Dolphin, Nemo, PCManFM and PCManFM-Qt all have.

So yeah, some people have no brains.

❶ One feature that only Firefox has is the ability to select a portion of the displayed page, right-click, and choose “View Selection Source”:

Nothing of the kind in the Chromium/Chrome/Edge territory:

❷ A feature for which I need a browser like Chromium/Chrome/Edge is an “inspector” that, under “Application,” displays “Frames” that can be expanded to list all images in the page, including those in the cache:

In this case of visiting Bing, including the cache means that you should be able to find all wallpapers that you visited in the current session, not just the displayed one.

Firefox has a completely different understanding of “Application,” so in most cases that panel won’t display anything. The only way to access an image that’s not available on a right-click is to try to pick it in a page’s DOM by “really inspecting by hand”:

In this particular case, it worked, but this is not the case for other websites. Firefox is pathetic here, but I need it specifically for “View Selection Source”!

If you’re curious, this is the URL of the displayed wallpaper:
https://www.bing.com/th?id=OHR.AlpineMarmots_EN-US0200342638_1920x1080.webp

It can be changed to a JPEG:
https://www.bing.com/th?id=OHR.AlpineMarmots_EN-US0200342638_1920x1080.jpg

When an image is a blob, you can’t get a URL to it, obviously.

Regarding some people’s preference for Chrome, I keep reading stuff like in the two following examples:

  • On Reddit, about a laptop with 32 GB of RAM running Win11: “Don’t buy it. I just got it and Chrome constantly crashes. The laptop is 10 hours old and took me 50 minutes trying to load my tabs.”
  • On Amazon, about a much cheaper laptop with 8 GB RAM, a German review that translates to this: “Programs often crash, mostly Chrome, no matter how often I reinstall it.”

I fail to understand why some people install Chrome under Win11, which already comes with Edge. Why not Firefox?

But I stopped trying to understand Homo sapiens sapiens. This is why I prefer discussing with Claude, Mistral, Kimi, and Grok. However, I didn’t ask them why nobody added “View Selection Source” to Chrome, or a proper DOM inspector to Firefox. I know the answer, and it has to do with software developers and project managers being literally retarded.