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Can someone remind me why we stopped using Firefox a while back? There was some piece of news that broke everyone's trust, but I can't remember what Mozilla did. Was it a change in their user agreement?

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[–] Sanctus@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

No, chrome came out and was that much better than every other browser at first.

[–] nokturne213@sopuli.xyz 2 points 3 months ago (5 children)
[–] sbv@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 months ago

I think OP is mostly focusing on why people switched off of FF. Present behaviour isn't super relevant to the conversation.

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[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Don't you mean Netscape Navigator?

[–] bluegreenwookie@bookwormstory.social 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I stopped using it and went to chrome bc my adblock stopped working and i waited for a fix but it didn't come. It worked fine on chrome.

I went back to firefox bc my adblock stopped working but it worked fine on firefox.

these two events are several years apart if that wasn't clear

[–] yournamehere@lemm.ee 2 points 3 months ago

i think when they killed weave. such a dick move. one of many. may the CEO get most out of the bribe they get from google for selling out its users. i muria even the free and open things are shit.

[–] sbv@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 months ago

It was too noisy. My wife and I used to live in a small apartment. I'd leave my Linux box on all the time. Running Firefox, it'd periodically spin up the fan, which was loud enough to annoy my wife at night, and me during the day. Chrome didn't spin up the fan. I switched and we stopped hearing my noisy computer.

This was a while ago. I can't remember if it was Firefox or Mozilla at that point.

[–] arararagi@ani.social 1 points 3 months ago

I still recommend floorp, I love the sidebar.

[–] riffy@lemm.ee 1 points 3 months ago

Because I use only android or Samsung dex. It doesn't work on dex & android seems forgotten. I use per site zoom to much.

[–] BlackLaZoR@fedia.io 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Back in the early days Mozilla redesigned Firefox interface. It was so incomprehensively moronic that I moved to Chrome.

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[–] gigachad@sh.itjust.works -3 points 3 months ago

Um Sir, this is a Lemmy

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