No, not if you are "all in" and spend enough time customizing it or getting used to the UI/features uniquely available to a specific browser.

You won't be able to switch multiple times a day without noticing a lot of friction as you common workflows break down

In my role I have to do a lot of testing on different browsers so the least amount of friction is little to no customization, the only plugins are the ones I need for testing and nothing else.

When I was a developer, I fell into the trap of trying to customize everything, only to have to keep doing it once a new browser or extension came out. I gave up trying to get something exactly the way I wanted it.

I use as close to stock as possible in order to avoid the kind of friction you're talking about.

Another advantage to staying close to stock as possible is those configurations are the most heavily tested by QA.

If there is anything I've learned from decades of software development, it is that deep customization leads to headaches.

> doing it once a new browser

Or you can stick to your old already customized browser and avoid the trap/friction! I mean, if were able to ditch everything completely, you should've been able to just stop checking everything new and shiny?

How is switching between a couple different web browsers any way cognitively different from context switching between a browser, code IDE, database client, and terminal windows?

You're not doing exactly the same tasks in other apps like you do in a browser, so you don't have browser-specific workflows you're used to that would break down.

For example, you have a browser where you can set up a shortcut _C_ to copy the current page URL to your clipboard. You've developed muscle memory of doing that, so feel it in another browser where it can't be set up that way.

You don't need that in a database client, so you'll never notice the difference there because you'll never use that shortcut

Right? I use Chrome for personal because it just syncs well with my phone. I use FF for business because it's a bit clunkier than Chrome but still acceptable, and more importantly, completely separate. I use Edge to run one off webapps here and there, where I don't want the window previews to appear and clutter things up when hovering over one of the other browsers in the task bar.

And the nice thing for me with Zen is that switching between Zen and Firefox is even lower cost, because they sync with each other.

Because “Lately I use Zen” isn’t as catchy of a title.

It means the opposite of that.