With the number of people concerned about privacy, it is a wonder why chrome is even popular.

      • jflorez@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        2·
        3 years ago

        I switch when it was Phoenix, then switch again when it was Firebird, and finally switch when it become Firefox

        • Yendor@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          1·
          3 years ago

          I went straight from Mozilla Navigator to Firefox 1.0.

          Tabs were such a crazy new thing back then. You would show tabbed browsing to someone (rather than opening new windows) and they thought you were a wizard. IE5 didn’t have tabs, so nerds moved to Mozilla/Firefox. Then IE6 came out but still didn’t have tabs. By the time IE7 came out, I’d had tabbed browsing for 5+ years.

    • Noxvento@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      3 years ago

      I use Firefox since it’s release. It was never bad. I don’t get all the Chrome users.

  • GigglyBobble@kbin.social
    8·
    3 years ago

    Firefox is a weird buggy mess that constantly freezes.

    This is definitely not normal, Firefox never freezes for me. May be worth checking that out, especially your extensions.

      • minorninth@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        3 years ago

        The plan to deprecate Chrome V2 extensions has been constantly postponed again and again for years now. There is NO SCHEDULED DATE for this to happen currently, and when it is announced it will be more than 6 months out.

        Source: https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/g/chromium-extensions/c/zQ77HkGmK9E/m/HjaaCIG-BQAJ?pli=1

        If Google really wanted to kill ad blockers, they would have done this years ago.

        They don’t. They want to force ad blockers and other similar extensions to use more efficient APIs that don’t slow down the web. Extension developers overall (not just ad blockers) aren’t happy with the changes, so they’re still working on the APIs.

  • Maped@lemmy.mlEnglish
    2·
    2 years ago

    2 years later, the “Manifest” is doing it’s job and still I know some people that would not leave their favorite Chrome.

  • Metallibus@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    3 years ago

    IMO the thing is that people don’t care about their privacy. Sure, some people around here do, but your average person owns an Alexa, has a FB/Instagram account and constantly posts their location, uses the same password on many sites, uses TikTok, doesn’t block cookies, etc etc etc.

    Most people don’t actually care. Some claim they do, but then can’t even be bothered to stop using Instagram etc because of the “inconvenience”… So do they really care?

    Some companies (Apple, etc) push their products under a narrative around safety and security, and people will repeat that point as a way to justify a decision they already made, but if they actually cared, they would be doing other things too. But they don’t.

    The number of us who do actually care about privacy and security is actually very small.

  • Porka_911@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    21·
    3 years ago

    Chrome does have a use, namely Selenium and automation.

    I’m guilty of having Chrome on my PC, as I need to nerf over my favourites to Firefox.

    Firefox is my browser of choice on my Google Pixel 7, but then again no doubt it makes little difference.

    I just choose to use a VPN, so any targeted adverts are blocked regardless of the profile built up from my browsing habits.

    • HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com
      1·
      2 years ago

      As someone else mentioned they have several browsers and so do I. I actually do google stuff in chrome and microsoft stuff in edge and would do apple stuff in its browser if they did not mess up the login stuff. then my firefox is my real browser.

    • fatalError@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
      0·
      2 years ago

      At work I guess you only do work related stuff, so at the end of the day it’s only work-related data that the browser has access to. Why would it matter to you?

      99.9% of my the personal browsing I do is in firefox both on phone and desktop, but on work laptop I use Edge because 1. the work web-apps seem to favour chromium based browsers and 2. it’s not my data so I don’t really care about the privacy of my company’s data, they have a data privacy officer to worry about that.

      • AteshgaRubyTeeth@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        2 years ago

        No, at work I regularly do non work related stuff. Also when doing work related stuff I prefer to use firefox as I can use adblockers.

        Having said that I understand that I’m using work supplied laptop and if they force me to use Internet Explorer than that’s what I have to use.

        Having said that it’s not so important as for my personal browser.

  • Paralda@programming.devEnglish
    1·
    3 years ago

    I use Vivaldi, which isn’t perfect, but I need tab grouping in some form. Firefox’s solutions for tab groups are meh at best