Mastodawn

When people perception changed about #Firefox? I've never had a big problem with it, at least not big enough to change browsers.

I used Pale Moon, but mostly I was curious about it (and it is based on Firefox after all). I tried #Chrome and #Chromium based browsers, but they are memory eaters (like 3x-4x of Firefox for 10 tabs, come on!).

Was Firefox always bad in the last 5 years, or Google marketing win over ppl instead of their experience?

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التنينوكس Jul 29, 2017

@evenorbert Chrome gets installed among many applications. I'm setup, there is a box checked by default to install Chrome. Also, when browsing YouTube or Google, The sister tell you to try a faster growing experience by installing Chrome. The language and message sent are powerfull. Most people just had chrome installed along some application and started using it. It might seem faster because it gets started on computer start, is never closed, stores everything in RAM etc.

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jjg Jul 30, 2017

@evenorbert I wish Firefox was faster, but I won't use Google products (for privacy reasons) so I'm kind of stuck with it.

Although now even Firefox is sending data to Google so... uhhh

There's a few other browsers with unique features (qutebrowser, for example) that I want to spend time with to see how they work compatibility-wise with the websites I use.