• eeeeyayyyy
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    1 year ago

    Chrome took over FF because of Chrome being a default Android web browser after replacing its vanilla/AOSP browser.

    • @smeg@feddit.uk
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      191 year ago

      It was better than Firefox at the time. Firefox only needed to be better than IE so it has become a bit of a ram-hungry bloaty mess, then Chrome came along and was actually really quick. How the tables have turned.

      • @crunchpaste@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        111 year ago

        Yep. I was very young at the time but what I remember is firefox being spoken of as kind of a “hack” to make everything web-based faster compared to IE.

        Then chrome came out and firefox was completely replaced. It felt like an instant change. Anyone that knew anything about computers was using chrome.

        I think that chrome is still living off its glorious past.

      • NaN
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        1 year ago

        Multi-process was huge. Firefox was pretty stagnant for a long time, and it took a long time to catch up.

      • eeeeyayyyy
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        21 year ago

        This also applies to Microsoft, but they’re too late, I guess.