[exceptione]

Chrome was faster and optimized for google services indeed.

However, Google was smart enough to know that being superior doesn't count. Firefox was not horribly slow, the leap from firefox over IE was massive. Chrome over firefox wasn't quite the same leap.

The average user has been pushed aggressively, they weren't going to do research on web browsers when they even didn't know what a web browser is. Google knew that.

[misnome]

When a tab crashed or got heavy usage on Firefox, the whole browser locked up.

Chrome didn’t. It was noticeably faster and more reliable.

Switching browsers isn’t something that people generally do lightly. You lose them, you lose them for a decade+.

That and Mozilla behaviour hasn’t been great over the past several years; like, forced advertising extensions, crypto, more advertising to turn off on a fresh install than _google_…

Manifest v3 will probably be the straw that forces me to switch back again, but reluctantly.

[actualwitch]

Your pink glasses are showing. For the longest time before quantum firefox was generally very slow and straight up locking ui thread when it feels like it.