I tried before. Eventually gave up and found the shamim gcam that doesn’t have that annoyance

Exactly. The trick is media control

I left the firefox camp about a couple of weeks ago. First, it has huge memory consumption on linux (seems more like leaks) and my RAM is 16 Gigs. The recent decisions and the light shed on mozilla priorities actually made me realize that Mozilla is on the same train as evil corporates like Google. Ungoogled chromium seems the better choice to me atm

Ungoogled Chromium

As much as I hate google and chrome, I think chrome has superior ui/ux and firefox should really port the useful stuff

I feel the same argument applies to many other brands already including lenovo and sadly the thinkpad lineup.

Some others are contributing to the same trend by increasing prices and relying on cult fandom.