• diffusive@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    There is a net effect in browsers and in rendering engines especially.

    The more people use chrome engine (that is pretty much everyone except Firefox) the more web developers support only Chrome because… Cost/layoffs.

    For this reason i make a point in using only FF (except for websites that already don’t work with Geko).

    Monopolies are not good for anyone (especially with current Google attitude)

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      9 months ago

      Google chrome ads have been getting really obnoxious lately even though I only see them when visiting friends who don’t have an adblocker. Needless to say I use Firefox exclusively and only fire up chromium for work once in a while to see how stuff behaves in different browsers.

      Edit: makes me wonder why chrome is marketing so aggressively even while their userbase is by far the biggest.

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      9 months ago

      Saying “everyone except Firefox” is not accurate. Iceweasel, Pale Moon, Librewolf, etc, they all use the Gecko rendering engine. Are they a fraction of a blip in the ecosystem? Unfortunately, yes.

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          9 months ago

          I think I did once many years ago, and it looked like pretty much Firefox with a different theme. I’m assuming today it looks more like its own thing.