What about chrome is useless? What makes chrome so useless that a normie would want it to change? In the end both let you browse the internet just fine. from work i use Firefox and at home i had chrome for years. I did not recognise any diffrenses except ram usage and it beeing a Google product. I changed to firefox at home a few months back so it is the same at work and at home. Can’t say it feels any snapier or whatever. For a normie Privacy is no reason to change. They don’t care. Ram, they probably don’t even know what that is. You have to search for new extensions in the mozilla store if the same one you used does not exist there. That is the reason firefox will not dominate Chrome in my opinion. For a normie there is absolutely no reason to change and normies are the majority of people. Some anecdotal story. At work i installed for some colleges Adblockers because the said some of the ads where anoying and after i did in the following months one after another wanted me to deactivate it again because they could not figure out to visit some websites. As i offered them to show them how they could get around it they just denied. “that is to complicated for me.” So yeah. Normies do not care and even worse adblock blockers work.
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Jenntron@lemmy.world 7 months ago
It blows my mind how many people do you not understand how essentially useless Chrome is now and how much it has changed.
Koordinator_O@lemmy.world 7 months ago
ava@feddit.de 7 months ago
there are many reasons to prefer chromium based browsers, security being one of them
am not saying that firefox is inherently bad, but that there are valid reasons to use something else. I know that this is considered a hot take on lemmy but it needs to be said
ilinamorato@lemmy.world 7 months ago
On balance, though, since most people go almost exclusively to well-known, uncompromised websites that are legitimate and also trying to harvest data, privacy protections are more important. Defend against the attacks you know are happening and all.
Besides, most attacks are social engineering these days, and even the most secure browser on earth won’t defend against that. The recent flurry of high profile YouTube account hijacks was accomplished via malware that stole session tokens from both Chrome and Firefox.
ava@feddit.de 7 months ago
both privacy and security are important and neither one is going to save you from a social engineering attack.
and besides, trusting on your users to only go to well known websites isn’t something you should rely on.
but yeah, I totally get your point
ilinamorato@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Agreed all around.
Skimmer@lemmy.zip 7 months ago
They said Chrome specifically, not Chromium as a whole.
ava@feddit.de 7 months ago
by Chrome they usually mean chromium and all of its derivatives since those will also get mv3 unless they specifically opt out
guacupado@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Not to mention that Youtube and Chrome are run by the same company.
Chakravanti@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
In my book, nothing changed because I refuse to run anything closed source on MY computer.
aidan@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Very Stallman of you, unfortunately for many people’s use cases they will want at least proprietary video codecs or drivers.
Chakravanti@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
Whatever you’re willing ti be exterminated for.
YungOnions@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
Why’re you so angry over this?
KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
I’d mark this comment to return to in 10 years, but I have a sneaking suspicion you won’t be around to answer me when I point out that we are all neither dead, or sterile.
So I’m just gonna say, 10 years early: Lol
TangledHyphae@lemmy.world 7 months ago
What I don’t get is that my browser experience is legitimately better overall, I don’t know what was keeping me from switching all these years. Familiarity perhaps.
tpihkal@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I had the same reaction. Used to love Firefox with all it’s awesome plugins but it took me soo long to go back to it. I just became so used to Chrome that the switch seemed daunting, although, I’ll admit it took a little while to get comfortable with it again.