In my experience, Firefox with the Bitwarden addon installed syncs well without requiring you to install any Google services. The obvious downside being that you need to open Firefox to copy your password, but that can probably be worked around by adding a shortcut to the Bitwarden addon page to the home screen.
I don't know what you mean with "one tap away from losing all your tabs" though, perhaps you have an issue I haven't encountered yet. I personally never lose any Firefox tabs, even if I manage to make it crash somehow; I suppose what I'm trying to say is you might want to try Firefox again to see if the situation has improved.
As for maps and navigation, you might try Maps [0] or Here Maps [1] (if that runs without play services, I assume so with Microsoft behind it). Of course, an old copy of GMaps works fine, but Maps [0] is open source, which one might likely favour on a Google-less phone.
I forgot to mention that I keep Firefox just for Bitwarden extension. Though I usually just copy the password on my PC, and KDE Connect syncs the clipboard. I also try to be logged into as few services as possible on my phone, in case someone steals it while the phone is unlocked. Since the phone is rooted, determined thief would have many opportunities.
By "one tap", I meant the "Close all tabs" options next to "New incognito tab". If you tap "Close all tabs" in Chrome, you get an "Undo" button for few seconds. If you do the same in Firefox, you don't. There are "Recently closed tabs", but I learned the hard way that it only holds few tabs.
Maybe it's because I'm using Firefox on Linux, but I couldn't find a Close all tabs button or menu entry. There is even an extension for that [1]. Closing all tabs wouldn't be the same as closing the window they belong to?
I don't know what you mean with "one tap away from losing all your tabs" though, perhaps you have an issue I haven't encountered yet. I personally never lose any Firefox tabs, even if I manage to make it crash somehow; I suppose what I'm trying to say is you might want to try Firefox again to see if the situation has improved.
As for maps and navigation, you might try Maps [0] or Here Maps [1] (if that runs without play services, I assume so with Microsoft behind it). Of course, an old copy of GMaps works fine, but Maps [0] is open source, which one might likely favour on a Google-less phone.
[0]: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.github.axet.maps/ [1]: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.here.app.m...