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Probably because most don't know what Chromium is, or what open-source means or why certain websites don't work (or work as well as in Chrome). Sad but true.

most of the population isn't tech-savvy enough to know about different browser types, or care about which one they're using. The reason chrome is so dominant is because it comes pre-installed on many devices, and so people just don't bother to change it.

Hasn't happened quite yet. uBlock Origin on Chrome is much less robust than on Firefox, that's for sure. Manifest 3 is finishing it's rollout this month and we're looking at not being able to functionally use adblockers in Chrome very soon.

If those popups appear you can usually manually remove them using ublock origin

I've used only ublock for a while and haven't had any issues with sites detecting adblock. Heck, even with the recent youtube debacle I still block ads on yt and haven't noticed any of the things people are complaining about. Though, I have youtube enhancer as well which also blocks ads.

What's different between Firefox and librewolf ?

I love Librewolf and use it myself. I don't recommend it to those who use regular Chrome. I recommend it to those who already use FF and want even more privacy. You can set it to still keep cookies and all that and save history and all those nice things, I know, but they are not default and those who expect it will become annoyed very quickly. I personally use these options at their default which is to delete all browser data upon exit (with some whitelisted websites) but a lot of people don't like that. Also, Wikipedia as the default search engine?? What a stupid default, at least DDG should be it.

Like I said I love it, and use it daily, just some really odd default choices.

Not trying to be rude, but really? You thought that "most people jumped ship" on a browser that still has over 70% of the desktop browser marketshare in 2023?

Hell on mobile browsers it is just over 60% marketshare. The people that "jumped ship" on that one all own iPhones.

This is just a silly statement.

I used Firefox for years, then switched to Chrome for a bit. It ate up 60% of my RAM for no fucking reason, so I switched back to Firefox a few years ago. Fuck Chrome

I currently have 32 tabs open in Edge, albeit most of them have been suspended.

I also have FFXIV running at 40-60 fps. I could start encoding a video right now, and Edge would slow down minimally.

But for some reason, Firefox has always been slower for me. I truly don't understand why.

I switched to it a little more than a year ago now and can't imagine going back.

It's just chrome with cryptobro twist