• eeeeyayyyy@lemm.ee
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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.

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      1 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.

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        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.

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      1 year ago

      Also being synonymous with “using Google”, where people thought they had to get chrome to use Google.com.