3212

If you value privacy, ditch Chrome and switch to Firefox now (www.fastcompany.com)

submitted 1 year ago by Frostwolf@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

998 comments fedilink hide all child comments

With the number of people concerned about privacy, it is a wonder why chrome is even popular.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[-] SamsonSeinfelder@feddit.de 374 points 1 year ago

The best time to switch to Firefox was 5 years ago. The second best is today.

[-] sycamore@lemmy.world 134 points 1 year ago

Oops, I switched 15 years ago,

[-] jflorez@sh.itjust.works 53 points 1 year ago

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

[-] sycamore@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago

you win Firefox!

[-] Yendor@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] gornar@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Hat trick!

[-] Mongostein@lemmy.ca 17 points 1 year ago

Noob. I switched in 2006 - 17 years ago.

[-] eeltech@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

What took you so long?!?

[-] Mongostein@lemmy.ca 17 points 1 year ago

I had to pee!

[-] LetMeEatCake@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year 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.

[-] Gork@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago

The early Chrome was crazy fast when it had none of the bloat.

[-] PipedLinkBot@feddit.rocks 6 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] Sho@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Google has a web-browser?

[-] orphiebaby@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

10 to 15 years ago, myself. Don't remember exactly.

[-] gornar@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

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

load more comments (16 replies)

this post was submitted on 17 Jul 2023

3212 points (97.3% liked)

Technology

59440 readers

3426 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.

Our Rules

Follow the lemmy.world rules.
Only tech related content.
Be excellent to each another!
Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
Politics threads may be removed.
No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed

Approved Bots

founded 1 year ago

MODERATORS