▲ 1496 ▼ Firefox has surpassed Chrome on Speedometer (treeherder.mozilla.org) submitted 3 years ago by fattyfoods@feddit.nl to c/technology@lemmy.ml 287 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] MarioBarisa@lemmy.ml 47 points 3 years ago (1 child) Great job Mozilla. I hope that Firefox will one day be as popular as Chrome or even more! ❤️ permalink fedilink source hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] ProfezzorDarke@feddit.de 21 points 3 years ago (1 child) Oh it was already- Before Chrome became popular. When Chrome came out, only weird people used it. All my friends were FF kids. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] MixedRaceHumanAI@lemm.ee 5 points 3 years ago* (2 children) Chrome took over FF because of Chrome being a default Android web browser after replacing its vanilla/AOSP browser. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [+] smeg@feddit.uk 19 points 3 years ago (2 children) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] crunchpaste@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 3 years ago 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. permalink fedilink source parent [–] nan@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 3 years ago* Multi-process was huge. Firefox was pretty stagnant for a long time, and it took a long time to catch up. permalink fedilink source parent [–] andruid@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 years ago (1 child) Also being synonymous with "using Google", where people thought they had to get chrome to use Google.com. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] MixedRaceHumanAI@lemm.ee 2 points 3 years ago This also applies to Microsoft, but they're too late, I guess. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] ProfezzorDarke@feddit.de 21 points 3 years ago (1 child) Oh it was already- Before Chrome became popular. When Chrome came out, only weird people used it. All my friends were FF kids. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] MixedRaceHumanAI@lemm.ee 5 points 3 years ago* (2 children) Chrome took over FF because of Chrome being a default Android web browser after replacing its vanilla/AOSP browser. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [+] smeg@feddit.uk 19 points 3 years ago (2 children) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] crunchpaste@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 3 years ago 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. permalink fedilink source parent [–] nan@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 3 years ago* Multi-process was huge. Firefox was pretty stagnant for a long time, and it took a long time to catch up. permalink fedilink source parent [–] andruid@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 years ago (1 child) Also being synonymous with "using Google", where people thought they had to get chrome to use Google.com. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] MixedRaceHumanAI@lemm.ee 2 points 3 years ago This also applies to Microsoft, but they're too late, I guess. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] MixedRaceHumanAI@lemm.ee 5 points 3 years ago* (2 children) Chrome took over FF because of Chrome being a default Android web browser after replacing its vanilla/AOSP browser. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [+] smeg@feddit.uk 19 points 3 years ago (2 children) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] crunchpaste@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 3 years ago 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. permalink fedilink source parent [–] nan@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 3 years ago* Multi-process was huge. Firefox was pretty stagnant for a long time, and it took a long time to catch up. permalink fedilink source parent [–] andruid@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 years ago (1 child) Also being synonymous with "using Google", where people thought they had to get chrome to use Google.com. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] MixedRaceHumanAI@lemm.ee 2 points 3 years ago This also applies to Microsoft, but they're too late, I guess. permalink fedilink source parent
[+] smeg@feddit.uk 19 points 3 years ago (2 children) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] crunchpaste@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 3 years ago 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. permalink fedilink source parent [–] nan@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 3 years ago* Multi-process was huge. Firefox was pretty stagnant for a long time, and it took a long time to catch up. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] crunchpaste@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 3 years ago 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. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] nan@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 3 years ago* Multi-process was huge. Firefox was pretty stagnant for a long time, and it took a long time to catch up. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] andruid@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 years ago (1 child) Also being synonymous with "using Google", where people thought they had to get chrome to use Google.com. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] MixedRaceHumanAI@lemm.ee 2 points 3 years ago This also applies to Microsoft, but they're too late, I guess. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] MixedRaceHumanAI@lemm.ee 2 points 3 years ago This also applies to Microsoft, but they're too late, I guess. permalink fedilink source parent