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Because it used to feel like Firefox was on our side. At some point over the last 20 years it started to feel like they didn't care about us anymore. It felt li

Because it used to feel like Firefox was on our side. At some point over the last 20 years it started to feel like they didn't care about us anymore. It felt like they cared more about attracting others than keeping us around because they know we're stuck without any viable alternatives. Everybody has always known Chrome was evil, so no one bothered getting an emotional attachment, at best the only argument anybody had in favor of chrome was that it was fast.

pessimizer 4y ago
> It felt like they cared more about attracting others than keeping us around And worse, they weren't (and aren't) even attracting others, so their antagonism towards their long-term users was even less justified.
- mixmastamyk 4y ago
  Colorways anyone?
kelipso 4y ago
> at best the only argument anybody had in favor of chrome was that it was fast Literally the only thing I and probably most people care about. 99.9% of the time I spend using a browser is browsing, so speed is pretty much the only thing I care about..
- zdragnar 4y ago
  I switched to FF because it was faster than IE. Then it became slow, and I found chrome. Then I switched to chrome because it was faster, and that's the end of the story. I tried FF once on a work MacBook. It installed, but wouldn't launch. Uninstalled and haven't looked back since. I could probably make it work for me again, and it might be alright. Chrome just works, though, and my workflows all just work. I literally have no reason to switch... Until January. Once manifest v3 rolls out, i will be very interested to see just how badly hampered ublock becomes.
causality0 4y ago
Exactly. They're so focused on this delusion that can be the dominant browser that they threw away us, the ten percent. Be the tech browser again.
adrianmonk 4y ago
> at best the only argument anybody had in favor of chrome was that it was fast When Chrome came out, the other big argument in its favor[1] was stability and security due to how it isolated tabs (and plugins) into separate OS processes. Firefox supports something similar now, but it definitely didn't at the time. --- [1] see the Chrome comic: https://www.google.com/googlebooks/chrome/ https://www.google.com/googlebooks/chrome/
- chlorion 4y ago
  Its only within the last year or so that Firefox supports OS level process based site isolation! Chromium supported it from the start afaik! Even to this day Chromium is superior wrt security, but I am sure the gap has narrowed quite a bit.

pessimizer 4y ago

> It felt like they cared more about attracting others than keeping us around And worse, they weren't (and aren't) even attracting others, so their antagonism towards their long-term users was even less justified.

mixmastamyk 4y ago
Colorways anyone?

kelipso 4y ago

> at best the only argument anybody had in favor of chrome was that it was fast Literally the only thing I and probably most people care about. 99.9% of the time I spend using a browser is browsing, so speed is pretty much the only thing I care about..

zdragnar 4y ago
I switched to FF because it was faster than IE. Then it became slow, and I found chrome. Then I switched to chrome because it was faster, and that's the end of the story. I tried FF once on a work MacBook. It installed, but wouldn't launch. Uninstalled and haven't looked back since. I could probably make it work for me again, and it might be alright. Chrome just works, though, and my workflows all just work. I literally have no reason to switch... Until January. Once manifest v3 rolls out, i will be very interested to see just how badly hampered ublock becomes.

causality0 4y ago

Exactly. They're so focused on this delusion that can be the dominant browser that they threw away us, the ten percent. Be the tech browser again.

adrianmonk 4y ago

> at best the only argument anybody had in favor of chrome was that it was fast When Chrome came out, the other big argument in its favor[1] was stability and security due to how it isolated tabs (and plugins) into separate OS processes. Firefox supports something similar now, but it definitely didn't at the time. --- [1] see the Chrome comic: https://www.google.com/googlebooks/chrome/ https://www.google.com/googlebooks/chrome/

chlorion 4y ago
Its only within the last year or so that Firefox supports OS level process based site isolation! Chromium supported it from the start afaik! Even to this day Chromium is superior wrt security, but I am sure the gap has narrowed quite a bit.