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I've been saying this for damn near 15 years. It's odd that people migrated from Firefox to Chrome in the first place. Obviously not everyone who uses Chrome did that but I know quite a few people who did and are now talking about switching back. These are people who generally believe independent and open source is the best way to go too.
I migrated from Firefox to Chrome years and years ago when Chrome was lightning fast with a bazillion tabs open and Firefox had some memory leak that forced me to reload a couple times a day. I have since moved back and realized all my old problems are no longer a thing, but I can definitely see why some would have made the switch and never tried moving back.
Sadly, this is because FF wasnโt a good browser for many for a hot minute. Many websites, particularly ones with media, didnโt work well with it. I was one of the ones who switched during this time. I didnโt use Chrome, personally, but I can see why some chose it as an option when facing the same problems I had. FF has since fixed these issues and I switched back to FF quite awhile ago.
From what I saw. It was more Internet Explorer to Chrome.
Back in the day Firefox wasn't as polished as it was now. Think more Open Office than Libre Office.
All machines had IE and it sucked, crashed but was default. Then I tried Chrome and it was good. Then moved everyone to it since the alternatives weren't as good.
Years later, chrome is still good compared to IE, but now Firefox is slightly better. For all intent and purpose it's the same but some qol features here and there made me move.
But for everyone else they don't want or need to move. So until it gets worse than IE they'll stay.