If you value privacy, ditch Chrome and switch to Firefox now

Frost Wolf@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.world – 3176 points –
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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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The best time to switch to Firefox was 5 years ago. The second best is today.

Oops, I switched 15 years ago,

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

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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Noob. I switched in 2006 - 17 years ago.

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.

Sorry, that's 3rd best at most, according to the data above. Sorry, I don't make the rules!

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I use Firefox since it's release. It was never bad. I don't get all the Chrome users.

I had the crappiest of PCs in 2006 or 2007 with 768MBs of RAM running Windows XP. Funnily enough the reason I switched to Chrome back then was the immense RAM usage of Firefox compared to Chrome back then. With the big rebranding an rerelease of Firefox in 2017? 2018? I came back and haven’t looked back since.

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