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by 0points 684 days ago
While I never left Firefox behind, I absolutely can relate to the "its fast", because I remember when it was true.

15 years ago, the laptops never fast enough and I watched most of my friends started to abandon Firefox for Chrome after trying it out.

> I expect that as malware blocking becomes less effective in Chromium

Why do you expect malware blocking to become less effective... ? Adblock is not antivirus.

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Chrome may have been faster, but I don't really remember Firefox ever being particularly slow.

Adware, spyware, and crypto miners are all types of malware, and ublock origin can block all of them. Antivirus is probably the least useful type of anti-malware program as viruses aren't particularly common unless you're on the shady parts of the web.

Firefox was a huge memory hog. People called it bloated. Chrome was the lightweight alternative.