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I feel like this article is going to age poorly. I used Chrome because the devtools were better and they supported the same sorts of extensions. I've switched

I feel like this article is going to age poorly. I used Chrome because the devtools were better and they supported the same sorts of extensions. I've switched back to Firefox 2 years ago and haven't looked back. I've heard from friends that they've also switched back all largely due to the looming manifest v3 ad blocker limitations. There are no other mainstream browsers that I trust at this point.

8organicbits 3y ago
Agreed, it seems inevitable that Google will enshitify Chrome by making ad-block tools unreliable. They've already started. That makes FF the "ad-block browser", and anyone who hates ads, scams, and malvertising will flee Chrome. Maybe we will see Chromium forks dominate, but I'm less sure about that.
- jmathai 3y ago
  I hope you're right and that Firefox gets enough investment to be a viable alternative at the right moment.
  - JohnBooty 3y ago
    I've been using Firefox daily for over twenty years. It's viable.
pi-e-sigma 3y ago
Why would you think that people burned by Firefox would go back to it instead of switching to different Chromium-based browsers? Firefox market shared declined to a single digit for a reason...
zamadatix 3y ago
If people were really switching back more than leaving the trends in the article would be positive instead of negative. That's not to say nobody is switching back, obviously people are, but they are also continually either not staying or grossly outnumbered by those choosing to leave for the first time. It's a shame, I really like Firefox and having the browser decoupled from a big tech company, but it's also what the data is saying and has been for over a decade as people continue to deny it.