This. Firefox has always been just good. It wasn't great or anything, it was just a good browser. Then chrome came around and it had more, better features. It was a bit more memory usage, but those were for the additional features Firefox didn't have.

Firefox didn't really change a whole lot, it added synching features across accounts, and didn't get worse. It just stayed the same.

The people made Firefox better, because now they're creating add-ons for Firefox, where chrome had more.

I feel like once chrome got the majority of browser users, it immediately started going to shit. I have no proof of this, just a memory of it being better until it was announced that chrome was the most used browser, and the near immediate heavier memory usage.

[–] SplashJackson@lemmy.ca 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

It's all telemetry so the advertising company that made Chrome can harvest your data for resale at bargain bin prices

[–] Zerush@lemmy.ml 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Yes, but not neccesary other Chromium do it, that depends only on the corresponding devs. Chrome is a RAM and Data Hog, because use for every tab a own process, but Vivaldi Hibernate the background tabs and because of this use less RAM than other Chromium and even FF. But generally all US browsers send data to Alphabet, googleanalytics and googletagmanager, except Edge (also Chromium), but in change it sends data to other MS partners which are even worst (Towerdata). I use Vivaldi for this, because it's the only existing EU browser (after the French UR browser died some years ago) maybe apart Konqueror from KDE (Linux only, KHTML or KDE WEBKit engine), no data for third parties, nor Google, despite the Chromium base. The Browser companies are the problem, not the engine which they use.

[–] orphiebaby@lemm.ee 0 points 3 months ago

I don't know what rock you've been living under where you think base Firefox wasn't ever improved

[–] GTG3000@programming.dev 18 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I mean, I clearly remember firefox being terrible back when Chrome was just beginning to take off.

It was a lumbering monolith that ate all your ram and loaded pages at a glacial pace. Chrome was a multi-process revolution from that.

Then, firefox got it's shit together and chrome got overloaded with corpo bullshit.

[–] KrankyKong@lemmy.world 10 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

It used to take firefox ages to open. I switched back after the big update in the mid 2010s that made it good again.

[–] potentiallynotfelix@lemmy.ml 1 points 6 months ago

firefox is going on a steady decline more recently with ads on the homepage by default, plus new telemetry being introduced. hopefully it can change direction