Can someone remind me why we stopped using Firefox a while back? There was some piece of news that broke everyone’s trust, but I can’t remember what Mozilla did. Was it a change in their user agreement?
It was too noisy. My wife and I used to live in a small apartment. I’d leave my Linux box on all the time. Running Firefox, it’d periodically spin up the fan, which was loud enough to annoy my wife at night, and me during the day. Chrome didn’t spin up the fan. I switched and we stopped hearing my noisy computer.
This was a while ago. I can’t remember if it was Firefox or Mozilla at that point.
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No, chrome came out and was that much better than every other browser at first.
It was. It was crazy fast and lightweight at the time.
It gained massive market share.
It became the default development target for websites.
Other browsers started getting left behind.
Each step syphons users from other browsers, compounding issues.
Because Librewolf exists and Mozilla became an adware vendor.
Back in the early days Mozilla redesigned Firefox interface. It was so incomprehensively moronic that I moved to Chrome.
Firefox was late to use multiple threads for the UI so it was horribly slow and hanging every time a page was loading. I think It took them around 2 years to get this done while Chrome was running great.
Even I being a hardcore Firefox user, I went to Chrome for 1 year or so as it was intolerable.
