Firefox
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Firefox is mostly a pretty good open-source browser with a few really irritating features. Among the irritants are:
- You can't tell it to stop nagging you to turn on DRM on certain sites. I've never had to turn it on, but it always wants me to.
- It can import settings from other browsers, but not from itself. That is, if you have an installation of Firefox on another machine, and you've copied the settings data folder over, Firefox will not see it or give you the opportunity to locate it. (I suppose they expect you to use their sync service, but that is a form of lock-in.)
- The TabMixPlus extension we enjoyed using for years is no longer available, due to Firefox's refactoring a couple of years back. They should have picked it up and either funded adapting it for the new API, or else incorporated its features.