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0 pointsramesh312y ago0 comments

>That doesn’t seem like a good situation to me. So I don’t want Firefox to die even though it’s not my daily browser.

...so make it your daily browser?

Seriously, there's no reason at all to still be using Chrome. There was a dip in the mid/late 2010s where FF was a joke in comparison, but they're more or less identical in performance at this point.

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MBCook2y ago

I don’t use Chrome. I use Safari. It is and has always been my choice since it was released.

But I still think it’s better if Firefox exists.

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My experience has been kind of odd compared to most. I switched to the Mac before Chrome or Safari came out. When Safari arrived it was vastly faster than anything else at the time. So it became my browser.

People on Windows or Linux couldn’t use Safari (I tried the Windows version, let’s not talk about that, ouch). So when Chrome came out, and they left IE/FF, they got the same giant performance jump that I liked so much but associated it with a different product. I’m sure I would’ve done the same thing if I was still on Windows.

Firefox eventually got way better, becoming what it is today. But almost everyone had already moved to Chrome.

I’m left with this sort of weird view of the world. When I did try Chrome it wasn’t noticeably faster than Safari because it was using the same rendering engine at the time, but it had a really different UI design that I didn’t like.

So a huge amount of people really love Chrome because of their experiences, and I hate it for the same reason. All because of the order I ended up using browsers in.

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