1y ago

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

www.fastcompany.com /90560574/ditch-chrome-for-firefoxs-better-privacy

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
  
  you win 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.
  
  Hat trick!
  
  Noob. I switched in 2006 - 17 years ago.
  
  What took you so long?!?
  
  I had to pee!
  
  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.
  
  The early Chrome was crazy fast when it had none of the bloat.
  
  Here is an alternative Piped link(s): https://piped.video/nCgQDjiotG0
  Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
  I'm open-source, check me out at GitHub.
  
  Google has a web-browser?
  
  10 to 15 years ago, myself. Don't remember exactly.
  
  Sorry, that's 3rd best at most, according to the data above. Sorry, I don't make the rules!
- Funnily enough - this article is 3 years old
- 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.
  
  It has a pretty severe memory leak issue during the period where Chrome siphoned off most of its users.
  
  I used it since netscape navigator XD
- Does it have native dark pages. Why I use brave. Would use Firefox but it's glaring white
  
  Firefox has dark mode.

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