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With the number of people concerned about privacy, it is a wonder why chrome is even popular.

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[–] SamsonSeinfelder@feddit.de 348 points 1 year ago (4 children)

The best time to switch to Firefox was 5 years ago. The second best is today.

[–] sycamore@lemmy.world 128 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Oops, I switched 15 years ago,

[–] jflorez@sh.itjust.works 47 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I switch when it was Phoenix, then switch again when it was Firebird, and finally switch when it become Firefox

[–] sycamore@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago

you win Firefox!

[–] Yendor@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago

I went straight from Mozilla Navigator to Firefox 1.0.

Tabs were such a crazy new thing back then. You would show tabbed browsing to someone (rather than opening new windows) and they thought you were a wizard. IE5 didn’t have tabs, so nerds moved to Mozilla/Firefox. Then IE6 came out but still didn’t have tabs. By the time IE7 came out, I’d had tabbed browsing for 5+ years.

[–] gornar@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago
[–] Mongostein@lemmy.ca 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Noob. I switched in 2006 - 17 years ago.

[–] eeltech@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Mongostein@lemmy.ca 13 points 1 year ago
[–] LetMeEatCake@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I cannot be 100% certain but I'm confident I was using it not long after the 1.0 release. That'd put me at 2004. 19 years!

Although I did briefly switch over to Chrome when it was new and fast. Then switched back when Firefox had a major optimization pass.

[–] Gork@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The early Chrome was crazy fast when it had none of the bloat.

[–] PipedLinkBot@feddit.rocks 5 points 1 year ago

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[–] Sho@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Google has a web-browser?

[–] orphiebaby@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

10 to 15 years ago, myself. Don't remember exactly.

[–] gornar@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

Sorry, that's 3rd best at most, according to the data above. Sorry, I don't make the rules!

[–] DeadNinja@lemmy.world 25 points 1 year ago

Funnily enough - this article is 3 years old

[–] Noxvento@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I use Firefox since it's release. It was never bad. I don't get all the Chrome users.

[–] shinjiikarus@mylem.eu 12 points 1 year ago

I had the crappiest of PCs in 2006 or 2007 with 768MBs of RAM running Windows XP. Funnily enough the reason I switched to Chrome back then was the immense RAM usage of Firefox compared to Chrome back then. With the big rebranding an rerelease of Firefox in 2017? 2018? I came back and haven’t looked back since.

[–] Action_Bastid@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

It has a pretty severe memory leak issue during the period where Chrome siphoned off most of its users.

I used it since netscape navigator XD

[–] Mojojojo1993@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Does it have native dark pages. Why I use brave. Would use Firefox but it's glaring white

[–] quickpen@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

Firefox has dark mode.