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I don't really get what you're on about. I switched from Chrome to Firefox a couple months ago and... it's great. I don't notice any differences in performance
by cmrdporcupine 3y ago
I don't really get what you're on about. I switched from Chrome to Firefox a couple months ago and... it's great. I don't notice any differences in performance (if anything, snappier) and the only thing that's "missing" that I had in Chrome is that Chrome had all my credit-card and password data associated with my Google account, which, well, that's not something I want Firefox to have.
TLDR: Firefox is a good web browser. It's not failing in the market because it's not a good browser. It's failing because consumers don't seem to actually care one way or the other.
- sleepybrett 3y agoThe pig doesn't have any problem with the farmer until he shows up with the axe. Thus it is with chrome users.
- deepspace 3y agoThat axe may just be Chrome's war on ad blockers.
- kelnos 3y agoI'd like to believe this, but what percentage of Chrome users actually use an ad blocker? My general feeling is that we on HN think ad blocking is a lot more common than it actually is.
- digging 3y agoIt can't be that niche, or else why would they spend so much effort fighting ad blockers? They've surely done some research that uncovers a decent userbase of people who do use an ad blocker but will turn it off at a prompt.
- nottorp 3y agoNo the question is how can you trust an ad blocker will be allowed to do its job in Chrome? Even without Manifest v33333 or whatever.
- cmrdporcupine 3y agoYep, in my case it was disgust about the (apparently now abandoned) attestation efforts. I worked at Google for 10 years, so my tolerance of them is higher than some, I guess. But also, now, my distrust. Anyways, Firefox is fine. Nice, in fact.