Firefox for Android has become quite nice, syncs all your stuff with desktop Firefox, inc passwords, via Lockwise, a nice password manager for Android and integrated in Firefox desktop.
Edit: Just sayin', when you want to rip the Google out of Chrome, why not go for something that suits you better? With less unwanted features that please the company not the user.
If anyone reading this is interested, there's an app called kiwi browser that is Chrome for Android with extension support. Downloading extensions is a bit annoying (the web store hasn't been designed for mobile at all) but it's worked flawlessly for me for a few months now.
The only annoying thing is a lack of sync, but I also download chrome for when I need to look through my desktop history or whatever. If you use a password manager that's pretty much the only thing you lose
Although my main mobile browser is Firefox, I can't deny that chrome is better on performance and battery life (even with ad blockers installed in FF). I can understand why people use a Chrome(-based) browsers on mobile.
The replacement for Firefox for Android is coming along nicely but it's nowhere near completion yet.
Improving stuff like this makes Chrome somewhat bearable until Firefox can match Chrome in performance.
I feel quite the opposite - stock Pixel 2, FF is snappier even with uBlock and SmartHTTPS enabled. I also enjoy features like the "Switch" popup bar when you open a new tab, once I have to use Chrome again for that one random website and start opening tabs from clicks I instantly start missing the ease of use FF mobile brings which Chrome does not in my use patterns.
Also, it's a lot easier to de-clutterify the main default screen and set a simple about:blank as the home page without having to dig into about:config (chrome://flags) - Chrome loves to hide things from you and force their world view (NTP), Firefox makes it all simple to disable and live a clutter-free mobile life. $0.02 USD :) (I just counted - I have to go disable 5 NTP chrome://flags to de-clutter the home page, whereas Firefox I just use standard menu choices to set a default home page)
After logging out of my google account, I was horrified to see "articles for you" contains some of the worst clickbait I've seen. Of course it goes away after you log in and they realize it won't appeal to your profile. This garbage content is being distributed without context every single time the average layman opens chrome to perform a google search on their phone.
I cannot believe nobody has called Google out for this yet. To me, this seems far more dangerous than clickbait on Facebook--where you can at least add a comment and let grandma know the article she posted is fake.
Worse yet, I suspect they highly favor AMP content in articles for you.
Wait until you figure out what types of no-talent mainstream artists they're promoting out of obscurity with frontage features (looking at you, Lil Yachty and Lil Uzi Vert - and worse).
I have recently discovered the value in blocking the "related content" lists a lot of websites put on the side of their pages.
Think of the "more from Viral" list on the right side of the imgur page, the viral articles on the right of the news article you're currently reading, and even the "hot network questions" on stack overflow.
I've found myself visiting a website with the desire to consume a specific piece of content and get sidetracked by those lists. That's the reason those side lists are there and of course there are metrics tracking their efficiency.
I've noticed a jump in browsing QoL once I started blocking those lists.
I often quite like these but I'm extremely annoyed by them at the moment as I saw a huge spoiler for a TV show I was wanting to watch. I've avoided all online newspapers but I open a new tab and Google go and spoil it for me.
There's no way to leave feedback. Google are way too big and arrogant for that.
I have found lightning browser [0] to be a very minimalist replacement for chrome, waterfox, fennec and the like. It's also on F-droid, which is a plus.
Edit: Just sayin', when you want to rip the Google out of Chrome, why not go for something that suits you better? With less unwanted features that please the company not the user.