I remember when Chrome was released, all marketing was on how much faster it rendered webpages, I never saw that as an issue, Firefox was fast enough, I tried Chrome for a bit, and hated the UI, I remember being confused as to why everyone loved Chrome suddenly, and frankly, I still am a bit confused by both the sudden shift, and the absolute market dominance by Chrome...

[–] eezeebee@lemmy.ca 15 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I remember being confused as to why everyone loved Chrome suddenly

Because they were still using Explorer before that

[–] stoy@lemmy.zip 5 points 10 months ago

Fair, I can see that, I guess my question was more for the people who already had switched to Firefox

[–] psud@aussie.zone 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Chrome is very good at running Google's pages. Even before Google owned YouTube chrome was better at YouTube.

[–] stoy@lemmy.zip 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Google bought YouTube in 2006, Chrome was publicly released in 2008, so I believe you are misremembering the events...

[–] psud@aussie.zone 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Entirely possible, I was pretty busy in my early career back then

[–] stoy@lemmy.zip 1 points 10 months ago

The interesting thing is that I was quite certain that I tested it in 2006, but there is zero evidence that that could have happened.

[–] Safipok@lemmy.ml 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Over the years my customized Firefox looks like chrome ¯_(ツ)_/¯

[–] stoy@lemmy.zip 1 points 10 months ago

I hated Chrome's UI so much that I switched from Firefox to Pale Moon when Firefox started the whole Australis design language, and only switched back when the current design was launched