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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@programming.dev 38 points 10 months ago (14 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.

[–] stoly@lemmy.world 29 points 10 months ago (11 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.

[–] chrisgestapo@lemmy.world 9 points 10 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.

[–] rottingleaf@lemmy.zip 2 points 10 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.

[–] Strawberry@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] rottingleaf@lemmy.zip 1 points 10 months ago

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

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