It's time to switch to Firefox as my main web browser. It's faster and generally more efficient than Chrome plus it has the most important extensions.

The most surprising thing is that the Android version of Firefox is excellent. So good that I switched from Chrome a few months ago when this expected news first dropped. No ads on mobile is awesome.

I'd try Brave.

Brave looks really cool, but it uses chromium so its hands are forever tied to google. I remember they considered Gecko but rejected it for some reason.

I don't understand that logic. It's a fork. Is Webkit tied to KHTML? Is gcc tied to egcs?

Chromium is not a fork of chrome. AFAIK brave has not forked chromium.

Yes they have. They had their own browser previously but have since given up on that. https://github.com/brave/brave-browser

Chromium is listed right on the readme.