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Comment on 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.

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stoly@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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.

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chrisgestapo@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
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.

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Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
So Firefox and Chromium.

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- stoly@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I’ll have to dump Opera at some point.
  
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alekwithak@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
FF was definitely the top dawg through the last half of the aughts. People got frustrated with the constant updates. Chrome had a lot of hype and for a while was the slick new browser. It didn’t take long for it to get just as slow as FF used to be, but now more enterprise web-apps will cripple compatibility on non-chromium browsers so it doesn’t matter how good FF gets.

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Bruncvik@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I was one of the users who left because TabMixPlus stopped working. Never worked again, so I’m with Vivaldi. I know; it’s built on Chromium, but being able to have my tabs on the bottom of the window is worth it for me.

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- stoly@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I seriously miss tab mix plus.
  
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