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It's depressing watching the same thing play out a generation later: one browser vendor captures the entire market and no one fights back. We all know variations of this phrase:
Those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it.
There's another phrase that further illustrates the conundrum:
Those who know history are doomed to know that it's repeating.
I use Firefox, but the #1 complaint that's made me stop evangelizing it to random people is the endless, endless complaints that it's slow.
And, frankly, it is: Chromium-based browsers perform better a good amount of the time on sites that use too much JS, which is, well, basically everything.
It's better than it used to be, but boy do people care less about free software than they do fast software.
I will admit I dumped Firefox on my android phone and went back to Chrome because, good grief, it was taking nearly twice as long to open and load pages and yeah, my patience doesn't stretch THAT far.
I dumped Firefox on my android phone and went back to Chrome because, good grief, it was taking nearly twice as long to open and load pages
Really?
I use both Firefox and Chrome on Android, and both seem similar and ok to me. Firefox appears to be a bit faster, with uBlock, as my network is not always fast.
Which websites do you mainly use?
I keep chrome mainly for the google websites and services.
I will admit I dumped Firefox on my android phone and went back to Chrome because, good grief, it was taking nearly twice as long ...
I'm not doubting you, but I am surprised. My android is 10 years old now. I switched to FF on it recently and haven't noticed a difference other than the URL bar is on the bottom now 🙃