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It is essential to stop using Chrome. Under the pretense of saving users from third-party spyware, Google is creating an ecosystem in which Chrome itself is the spyware. (mastodon.world)

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[–] thejodie 38 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I've used Firefox for years. It's always been the underdog imo.

If it ever becomes the top dog, I'll switch! To the next privacy underdog. More competition is good.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 11 months ago (4 children)

FF has always been security conscious and was actually the big dog until around 2007 or so when they had to do a full rebuild of their code and this made it so that a lot of peoples' favorite plugins stopped working until they were updated. This coincided with when Chrome started to become bigger and people switched. Now people are switching back. I use a combination of FF and Opera GX.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)

IIRC they switched to webextensions in Firefox 57 in 2017. Even before that it was never the browser with the biggest market share, and Chrome had already got a huge market share in 2017.

I've been using Phoenix/Firebird/Firefox as my default browser since 2003. Never understood the appeal of Chrome.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Even before that it was never the browser with the biggest market share

Between 2005 and 2007 it sort of felt like that for me. All kinds of computer-illiterate people were switching to Firefox.

I actually remember when Chrome first became a thing, I tried it then, used for some time as something cool, and then got back to Opera.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

When opera committed suicide and replaced itself with chrome in an opera costume, I switched back to Firefox

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

I switched directly from IE to Opera, and then used mostly Opera until it died, and then Firefox.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

So Firefox and Chromium.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I'll have to dump Opera at some point.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

FF was definitely the top dawg through the last half of the aughts. People got frustrated with the constant updates. Chrome had a lot of hype and for a while was the slick new browser. It didn't take long for it to get just as slow as FF used to be, but now more enterprise web-apps will cripple compatibility on non-chromium browsers so it doesn't matter how good FF gets.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I was one of the users who left because TabMixPlus stopped working. Never worked again, so I'm with Vivaldi. I know; it's built on Chromium, but being able to have my tabs on the bottom of the window is worth it for me.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I use waterfox (firefox branch) and it has that as a default option https://imgur.com/oWzCeA7

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

I seriously miss tab mix plus.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

At one point it was the top dog - this was before google was even in the browser market mind you. Then they entered and used a lot of... Shall we say interesting marketing practices to usurp firefoxes dominant position - it wasn't all due to chrome being better.

[–] thejodie 1 points 11 months ago

Sadly, it was at most a distant second to IE, until Chrome infected the whole planet.