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> Why should I use Firefox, or any other browser, from a standard consumer prospective? Because your techie friends tell you to. This moved people off of IE6
by jonchang 10y ago
> Why should I use Firefox, or any other browser, from a standard consumer prospective?
Because your techie friends tell you to. This moved people off of IE6 to Firefox and this is what initially got people to move to Chrome from Firefox. Google's muscle on its web properties did the rest. Even you admit that Chrome is only marginally better on all benchmarks. For me, it's worth it to help your non-technical friends keep the web a bit more open by making them wait 0.1s (or however much longer) to open Facebook.
- blackoil 10y agoPeople listened to the real benefits in terms of speed, tabs and UX while moving from IE, not to the rheotric about freedom, OSS etc. Do we have any such reasons now?
- g00gler 10y agoExactly my point.
- TulliusCicero 10y agoFirefox was superior to IE 6 even back when it was called Phoenix. The user experience was just SO much better.
- necessity 10y agoFirefox is just as responsive as Chrome (or even better). Default configs is what ruins the experience, Mozilla is way too conservative with their defaults. https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Firefox/Tweaks https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Firefox/Tweaks
- g00gler 10y agoI hate telling people to do things, then they come to me when they inevitably do something wrong :p. ... works for me