Re:EU opens Microsoft antitrust investigation into Teams bun...
by mschuster91 on Thursday July 27, 2023 @01:51PM
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> I’ll agree with you that Chrome really changed the web development experience with incredible tooling compared to what you could get back then but this had no impact on most users experience.
Yes, but guess what the developers started pushing onto their friends who asked for a browser? The one they were personally using.
Word-of-mouth is insanely powerful and FF alienated way too many of the key people.
While there was for sure a long period of time where Chrome was significantly faster than Firefox, there was never a time where Firefox was particularly bad. Firefox always oscillated between "really good" and "totally ok".
I’ll agree with you that Chrome really changed the web development experience with incredible tooling compared to what you could get back then but this had no impact on most users experience.
I totally remember Chrome being the fastest/snappiest browser, especially the first versions but Firefox has never been slow.