I miss the days when Chrome and Firefox used to be healthy competitors. Then one day Chrome suddenly jumped ahead and dominated the browser wars, and continues to dominate today. I dabbled with Chrome for a little bit in the early days but then went right back to Firefox.

To this day I still don't understand why everyone jumped ship to Chrome and never looked back, even as Google goes to war against adblockers. I thought that would turn the tide but back towards Firefox's favor but almost nobody switched back. They've become the modern day IE, yet people stick with it. I just don't get it.

[–] MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 days ago

If it's any consolation, i switched

[–] BoxOfFeet@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

I remember there being a reason why I switched. Like, there were extensions that chrome has that Firefox didn't, or some specific drm didn't like Firefox, or Chrome just ran better on my low-end hardware. Im not sure. But the adblock war has gotten me to switch back to Firefox.

[–] OpenStars@piefed.social 2 points 2 days ago

The hatred that Firefox generates in people is strong for some reason. I am not a modern web developer but in talking with some of those who are, they seem to have made some poor choices in the past. Also people hate the CEO's choices. It seems not enough to be "basically the only alternative to Chrome". Like Chrome is Donald Trump and Firefox Hillary Clinton - it's great to offer an alternative but it just was not enough to stand on its own.

I'm typing this from Firefox on Android right now, but at work I absolutely have to stick with using Chrome since Jira and Confluence only work properly with Chrome. Many banking websites likewise. It's not enough to have moral purity - which at least the Mozilla Corporation also lacks (e.g. firing many workers while giving enormous raise to execs, also selling user data) - if the software chooses not to be functional. But by all means, maybe they can give their CEO another huge raise while firing programmers and see how that helps develop the situation further!?

[–] mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 days ago

I'm going to switch from Chrome as soon as I get around to it

It's bloated and laggy, Google is evil now, and Microsoft seems to hate Chrome causing the experience to suck.

I tried to switch the Firefox several years ago and it just didn't stick for some reason. now that I'm getting around to degoogling my life, it should stick this time