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.
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.
This is not a modern sales ptich for google. This is a factual list of what they were.
Part of it was good marketing to none tech literates. “Dont be Evil.” Was a funny slogan. In 2008 I was in high a school and chrome was new but also fast and people said it was good so I tried it.
By like 2012 it was being put default on android phones.
Google kept innovating. They had a better JS version, they had integrated flash and PDF readers (Firefox you had to modify)
Chrome just played the game very well. Hell they had an ad campaign. Even this meme is part of that viral marketing to get people to use it.
Granted they haven’t done massive things since maybe 2014. But 2008-2014 they were making moves. They were ‘cool.’ 🤷♂️
Many people don’t know what google does with their data and many don’t care about or don’t know about the google attacks.
Even if they did, Google has inserted itself into their lives everywhere. I switched my browser to Firefox but I still had a google drive because of that old email from 2008.
Still used an android from a local carrier so I couldn’t side-load.
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
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!?
Since young people today won’t know what “internet explorer” is…
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.
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.
If it’s any consolation, i switched
This is not a modern sales ptich for google. This is a factual list of what they were.
Part of it was good marketing to none tech literates. “Dont be Evil.” Was a funny slogan. In 2008 I was in high a school and chrome was new but also fast and people said it was good so I tried it.
By like 2012 it was being put default on android phones.
Google kept innovating. They had a better JS version, they had integrated flash and PDF readers (Firefox you had to modify)
Chrome just played the game very well. Hell they had an ad campaign. Even this meme is part of that viral marketing to get people to use it.
Granted they haven’t done massive things since maybe 2014. But 2008-2014 they were making moves. They were ‘cool.’ 🤷♂️
Many people don’t know what google does with their data and many don’t care about or don’t know about the google attacks.
Even if they did, Google has inserted itself into their lives everywhere. I switched my browser to Firefox but I still had a google drive because of that old email from 2008.
Still used an android from a local carrier so I couldn’t side-load.
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
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!?
shit I’m not young anymore!
almost like half leg in my grave…
Lmfao I forgot about this one haha
Just like everyone forgot about Opera? :-P