Reasons to ditch Chrome and use Firefox

Re:Reasons to ditch Chrome and use Firefox by piaste on Saturday May 28, 2022 @08:48AM (#31539914)

> People would see experts (us) using it, we'd promote it and install it for people, we'd speak positively about it, we'd develop with it, etc. (I won't write the whole list.)

I wasn't super paying attention at the time, but wasn't that basically how Firefox initially established itself at the expense of Internet Explorer?

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Re:Reasons to ditch Chrome and use Firefox by ByteJockey on Saturday May 28, 2022 @09:11AM (#31540071)

Pretty much. People say that tech people switching doesn't do anything, but when tech people switch, semi-technical people get it via osmosis (forum posts for FF the first time, presumably reddit posts today). Suddenly when someone asks their friend that's slightly more technical than them for a recommendation, they get recommended the new thing instead of the old one.

Whole process takes a couple years or so.

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Re:Reasons to ditch Chrome and use Firefox by ChuckNorris89 on Saturday May 28, 2022 @10:54AM (#31540808)

Then why is FF marketshare still tanking despite all the techies hyping it?

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Re:Reasons to ditch Chrome and use Firefox by jordemort on Saturday May 28, 2022 @11:19AM (#31540965)

All the techies aren't hyping it. Most people that I know just use Chrome. My running joke whenever I see someone else using it in a Zoom share or something is "found the other Firefox user!"

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Re:Reasons to ditch Chrome and use Firefox by mixmastamyk on Saturday May 28, 2022 @02:27PM (#31542543)

Android and to some extent iOS, are the reason.

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Re:Reasons to ditch Chrome and use Firefox by stuartd on Saturday May 28, 2022 @10:06AM (#31540436)

I remember installing Firefox (I think v0.7) for my mother in law and giving it the IE icon.

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