• ProfezzorDarke@feddit.de
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    1 year ago

    Oh it was already- Before Chrome became popular. When Chrome came out, only weird people used it. All my friends were FF kids.

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      1 year ago

      Chrome took over FF because of Chrome being a default Android web browser after replacing its vanilla/AOSP browser.

      • smeg@feddit.uk
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        It was better than Firefox at the time. Firefox only needed to be better than IE so it has become a bit of a ram-hungry bloaty mess, then Chrome came along and was actually really quick. How the tables have turned.

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          Yep. I was very young at the time but what I remember is firefox being spoken of as kind of a “hack” to make everything web-based faster compared to IE.

          Then chrome came out and firefox was completely replaced. It felt like an instant change. Anyone that knew anything about computers was using chrome.

          I think that chrome is still living off its glorious past.

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      lol complete opposite for me, we all switched to Chrome almost immediately because it was just so much faster back then. I only swapped back years later when Chrome started becoming too much of a RAM hog for my potato PC to handle.