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Actually, why does Chrome/ium has such a high market share even amongst tech savvy people? I don't see the appeal.

newoldhead 3y ago
for most, i would assume it's largely just that during the time of the naïve web, there was a period where google kind of was the company, so people started using it for everything (think shortly before and then during the early google+ era). 10 years later almost every normie who didn't start using apple products uses gmail and chrome simply because they legacied into it from when they were younger and less aware of the negative aspects of the practice.
- cinntaile 3y ago
  A decade or so back Firefox was just so fucking slow and Chrome wasn't. So I switched. It's fixed now so I switched back.
- seti0Cha 3y ago
  I think you're overplaying the social aspect. For quite a while, Chrome had a serious speed advantage over Firefox and the developer tools were (are?) considered much better. I'm not sure if either is still the case. They both seem fine for my purposes, but I use Chrome because it subjectively feels a bit quicker and I've gotten disillusioned with the practice of choosing software based on political considerations.
  - blahyawnblah 3y ago
    Firefox's dev tools are much better than Chrome's
    - 0x073 3y ago
      Firefox devtools where long time not comparable to chrome, now they are almost the same. There are now some features I prefer on Firefox and some I prefer on chrome.
      - WorldMaker 3y ago
        The biggest difference was Firefox's best Dev Tools in those years were extensions and maintained via a wider community and updated on a different (sometimes faster) cadence than the browser itself. Good old Firebug was more capable than Chrome's Dev Tools at most points in time in that "long time not comparable" people believe existed, but Firefox didn't get "credit" for it until Firefox was finally pressured to move extensions like Firebug in-box and into the browser's normal deployment cycle. (I'm not sure that's necessarily the improvement people think it was.)
65 3y ago
Chrome Dev Tools is better than Firefox Dev Tools in my opinion. Chrome has more extensions too.
Beached 3y ago
I use chromium for one reason. work requires Google meets as our meeting software. I require the ability to blur my background. I hate installing third party plugins. therefore brave is my browser
jedberg 3y ago
I use both. I use Chrome for any Google website, I use Firefox for everything else (except sites that break in Firefox, and then I use Chrome for those too).
bendhoefs 3y ago
A lot of people don't remember how slow Firefox used to be before ~2018. Maintaining compatibility with XUL extensions really held them back for a while.
- mrAssHat 3y ago
  A lot of people remember how uncircumcised was Firefox before Mozilla decided to drop XUL.
mrAssHat 3y ago
Because there are no better alternatives. I don't like Google (and never did), but I HATE Mozilla for betraying all the good it once stood for. I hope they go broke, but they already aren't relevant anymore.

for most, i would assume it's largely just that during the time of the naïve web, there was a period where google kind of was the company, so people started using it for everything (think shortly before and then during the early google+ era). 10 years later almost every normie who didn't start using apple products uses gmail and chrome simply because they legacied into it from when they were younger and less aware of the negative aspects of the practice.

cinntaile 3y ago
A decade or so back Firefox was just so fucking slow and Chrome wasn't. So I switched. It's fixed now so I switched back.
seti0Cha 3y ago
I think you're overplaying the social aspect. For quite a while, Chrome had a serious speed advantage over Firefox and the developer tools were (are?) considered much better. I'm not sure if either is still the case. They both seem fine for my purposes, but I use Chrome because it subjectively feels a bit quicker and I've gotten disillusioned with the practice of choosing software based on political considerations.
- blahyawnblah 3y ago
  Firefox's dev tools are much better than Chrome's
  - 0x073 3y ago
    Firefox devtools where long time not comparable to chrome, now they are almost the same. There are now some features I prefer on Firefox and some I prefer on chrome.
    - WorldMaker 3y ago
      The biggest difference was Firefox's best Dev Tools in those years were extensions and maintained via a wider community and updated on a different (sometimes faster) cadence than the browser itself. Good old Firebug was more capable than Chrome's Dev Tools at most points in time in that "long time not comparable" people believe existed, but Firefox didn't get "credit" for it until Firefox was finally pressured to move extensions like Firebug in-box and into the browser's normal deployment cycle. (I'm not sure that's necessarily the improvement people think it was.)

65 3y ago

Chrome Dev Tools is better than Firefox Dev Tools in my opinion. Chrome has more extensions too.

Beached 3y ago

I use chromium for one reason. work requires Google meets as our meeting software. I require the ability to blur my background. I hate installing third party plugins. therefore brave is my browser

jedberg 3y ago

I use both. I use Chrome for any Google website, I use Firefox for everything else (except sites that break in Firefox, and then I use Chrome for those too).

bendhoefs 3y ago

A lot of people don't remember how slow Firefox used to be before ~2018. Maintaining compatibility with XUL extensions really held them back for a while.

mrAssHat 3y ago
A lot of people remember how uncircumcised was Firefox before Mozilla decided to drop XUL.

mrAssHat 3y ago

Because there are no better alternatives. I don't like Google (and never did), but I HATE Mozilla for betraying all the good it once stood for. I hope they go broke, but they already aren't relevant anymore.