I remember when Chrome was released, all marketing was on how much faster it rendered webpages, I never saw that as an issue, Firefox was fast enough, I tried Chrome for a bit, and hated the UI, I remember being confused as to why everyone loved Chrome suddenly, and frankly, I still am a bit confused by both the sudden shift, and the absolute market dominance by Chrome...

[–] eezeebee@lemmy.ca 25 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I remember being confused as to why everyone loved Chrome suddenly

Because they were still using Explorer before that

[–] stoy@lemmy.zip 5 points 5 months ago

Fair, I can see that, I guess my question was more for the people who already had switched to Firefox

[–] vic_rattlehead@lemmy.world 17 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I switched from FFX to Chrome back in the day because Chrome tabs were all independent processes in task manager, and one crappy website wouldn't kill my whole browser.

When Google started their war on addons, I switched back to Firefox.

[–] barsquid@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Pretty much my same progression except I've come back to LibreWolf instead.

[–] MewtwoLikesMemes@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Greetings, fellow LibreWolf user! Hurrah!

[–] stoy@lemmy.zip 1 points 5 months ago

That is a good point, I had not thought about that.

[–] Safipok@lemmy.ml 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Over the years my customized Firefox looks like chrome ¯_(ツ)_/¯

[–] stoy@lemmy.zip 4 points 5 months ago

I hated Chrome's UI so much that I switched from Firefox to Pale Moon when Firefox started the whole Australis design language, and only switched back when the current design was launched

[–] PahassaPaikassa@sopuli.xyz 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I grew up with a 56k modem. Anything after adsl is warp speed for me. I never understood or observed the speed differences between browsers.

Maybe I'm just so slow myself that I dont notice the difference but come on.. how much can it be? A few seconds? Who is so busy that a few seconds is a worthy amount of time to try and save (not talking about F1 drivers here)?

[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

With browsers it added up to a few seconds of difference per day. It was completely preposterous.

[–] psud@aussie.zone 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Chrome is very good at running Google's pages. Even before Google owned YouTube chrome was better at YouTube.

[–] stoy@lemmy.zip 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Google bought YouTube in 2006, Chrome was publicly released in 2008, so I believe you are misremembering the events...

[–] psud@aussie.zone 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Entirely possible, I was pretty busy in my early career back then

[–] stoy@lemmy.zip 1 points 5 months ago

The interesting thing is that I was quite certain that I tested it in 2006, but there is zero evidence that that could have happened.