Comment by numbers_guy

3 years ago

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

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newoldhead  3 years 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.

  • seti0Cha  3 years 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.

  • cinntaile  3 years 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.

65  3 years ago

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

bendhoefs  3 years 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  3 years ago

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

jedberg  3 years 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).

Beached  3 years 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

mrAssHat  3 years 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.