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		gjsman-1000 on Sept 6, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Deviations from Chromium (features we disable or r... Ah... no? Firefox, before Quantum, was slower than Chrome, had worse battery life than Chrome, and (on a Mac) was way louder than Chrome. And by the time they mostly fixed these problems, there was basically no reason to use Firefox other than it wasn't Chrome - which, other than to a developer, is not a selling point to the masses.

ipaddr on Sept 6, 2022 | [–]

Many mobile users have a phone with an internet icon that opens in chrome. As mobile rises firefox share declines.

literalAardvark on Sept 6, 2022 | [–]

... and crashed all the time, which is how they lost me. I care, I tried.

They shot themselves in the foot every 6 months for 10 years.

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