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On the contrary - HN articles about Firefox are always overrun by positively breathless supporters of Firefox and nothing is different here today. The real neg
by wayneftw 5y ago
On the contrary - HN articles about Firefox are always overrun by positively breathless supporters of Firefox and nothing is different here today.
The real negativity can be seen in the market that largely rejected this garbage browser.
- JohnTHaller 5y agoOr the fact that Google and Microsoft used their monopoly power and dark patterns to do it. Google asked every Firefox user to 'upgrade' to Chrome on all their properties, didn't work as hard to ensure Firefox compatibility leading to worse performance, and bundled Chrome with all kinds of stuff like Adobe Flash updates for Firefox to trick users into installing it (I uninstalled it from my Mom's PC 4 times). Microsoft resets default browser preferences or 'suggests' you switch to Edge for better insert random thing here pretty regularly as well. Mozilla has no such monopoly position to leverage.
- wayneftw 5y agoAnd yet, people find their way to install all sorts of other programs like Chrome, Discord, Slack or Steam even though Microsoft includes some competing programs by default in the start menu.