With the number of people concerned about privacy, it is a wonder why chrome is even popular.

      • jflorez@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        3·
        1 year ago

        I switch when it was Phoenix, then switch again when it was Firebird, and finally switch when it become Firefox

        • Yendor@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          2·
          1 year ago

          I went straight from Mozilla Navigator to Firefox 1.0.

          Tabs were such a crazy new thing back then. You would show tabbed browsing to someone (rather than opening new windows) and they thought you were a wizard. IE5 didn’t have tabs, so nerds moved to Mozilla/Firefox. Then IE6 came out but still didn’t have tabs. By the time IE7 came out, I’d had tabbed browsing for 5+ years.

    • Noxvento@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      I use Firefox since it’s release. It was never bad. I don’t get all the Chrome users.

        • 001100 010010@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          4·
          1 year ago

          I’m conviced those people aren’t real and everyone is in fact secretly using an ad blocker.

          I mean, how do you not get annoyed with so much ads? People are probabaly lying in surveys to trick youtube to not blocking adblockers.

          • littlecolt@lemm.eeEnglish
            2·
            1 year ago

            You are mostly right. Think about how many people use chrome on corporate office computers that they do not have permission to install anything on or modify. It’s part of the reason Windows is so dominant. Businesses run windows and chrome a shit ton. I work for a Fortune 100 company. It’s Windows and Chrome across the whole company.

        • GreyDawn@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          1 year ago

          I suspect they spend most of their time in apps and not surfing the internet. Just a guess really since I saw the mobile traffic exceeded desktop. A lot of people don’t spend hours on the “internet” surfing. Tic Tok sure. Hell I’m getting more and more like that. Even when I use chrome I still only go the the same sites for the most part. lol

  • GigglyBobble@kbin.social
    7·
    1 year ago

    Firefox is a weird buggy mess that constantly freezes.

    This is definitely not normal, Firefox never freezes for me. May be worth checking that out, especially your extensions.

    • TeamAssimilation@infosec.pubEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Especially your security programs, like third-party antivirus or firewalls. They can install system-level plugins in your browsers, and sometimes those don’t work well. Windows defender and the built in firewall are good enough and play nice with other programs.

  • HughJanus@lemmy.mlEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    With the number of people concerned about privacy, it is a wonder why chrome is even popular.

    It’s no wonder. It’s because people aren’t actually concerned about privacy.

    If you ask someone if they’re “concerned about privacy” many people will of course say yes. If you follow up that question with “what are you willing to do about it”, you’ll find that the answer is a resounding “not a God damn thing”. If they were they would spend 3 minutes on Google looking for an alternative browser that works even better than Chrome but without the privacy invasions.

    A browser is the low-hanging fruit on the “do-you-care-about-privacy meter”. It’s the one step with no sacrifices and the highest increase in privacy.

  • Porka_911@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    21·
    11 months ago

    Chrome does have a use, namely Selenium and automation.

    I’m guilty of having Chrome on my PC, as I need to nerf over my favourites to Firefox.

    Firefox is my browser of choice on my Google Pixel 7, but then again no doubt it makes little difference.

    I just choose to use a VPN, so any targeted adverts are blocked regardless of the profile built up from my browsing habits.

  • ciberConas3000@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    I recently did the switch, pretty similar in terms of experience. Only thing I can point out about firefox is that chrome’s page translator is faster and more efficient. I’m using the Google translate extension, if someone knows off a better one.

  • Virkkunen@kbin.social
    1·
    1 year ago

    With the number of people concerned about privacy, it is a wonder how privacy is still a word in the dictionary

  • Uniquitous@lemmy.oneEnglish
    0·
    1 year ago

    Google has a vested interest in showing you ads and selling your data.

    Firefox does not.

    Seems like a pretty clear choice to me.

      • Uniquitous@lemmy.oneEnglish
        0·
        1 year ago

        Well that’s blatantly untrue. Or if it is true, it must certainly come as a shock to the Mozilla Foundation.

        • drathvedro@lemm.eeEnglish
          01·
          1 year ago

          Well, the last time I’ve looked into their financials it looked something like this(numbers are not precise, Im talking from memory, no way im diving in it again): The mozilla corpiration, which is a for-profit subsidiary of mozilla foundation, earned somewhere in the neighbourhood of 500 million dollars, with overwhelming majority of it coming from google, rest from yandex and baidu. They’ve spent most of it on firefox devs salaries and moved 13ish million to mozilla foundation, the NPO. The Mozilla Foundation itself earned somewhere around 13 mil, too, with about a mil coming from direct donations, rest from grants. They’ve spent it on evangelistic purposes, like on events in fuck knows where, stuff not directly related to firefox(vpn, vr stuff), grants to other projects (like rust), but mostly into managements pockets. None of that goes to firefox the browser.

          As you can see, Mozilla is completely at a mercy of Google, especially after the deal with yandex fell through due to sactions. Otherwise, they don’t have nearly enough resources to keep up as is, nevermind losing 95% of revenue. There is a glimmer of hope for them pivoting into mozilla ecosystem, like with VPN and password manager, but I havent heard about those in a while, and the competetion is stiff there, but Im keeping my hopes up.