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If you value privacy, ditch Chrome and switch to Firefox now (www.fastcompany.com)
submitted 3 years ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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With the number of people concerned about privacy, it is a wonder why chrome is even popular.

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[–] 143 points 3 years ago (14 children)

Oops, I switched 15 years ago,

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  • [–] 57 points 3 years ago (4 children)

    I switch when it was Phoenix, then switch again when it was Firebird, and finally switch when it become Firefox

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  • [–] 10 points 3 years ago

    I went straight from Mozilla Navigator to Firefox 1.0.

    Tabs were such a crazy new thing back then. You would show tabbed browsing to someone (rather than opening new windows) and they thought you were a wizard. IE5 didn’t have tabs, so nerds moved to Mozilla/Firefox. Then IE6 came out but still didn’t have tabs. By the time IE7 came out, I’d had tabbed browsing for 5+ years.

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  • [–] 17 points 3 years ago (5 children)

    Noob. I switched in 2006 - 17 years ago.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    I cannot be 100% certain but I'm confident I was using it not long after the 1.0 release. That'd put me at 2004. 19 years!

    Although I did briefly switch over to Chrome when it was new and fast. Then switched back when Firefox had a major optimization pass.

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