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It is about the browser's underlying tech. Chromium (and by extension all browsers built on it) uses the V8 JavaScript engine while Firefox uses Gecko(?), and it is important for the health of the web to not let one company control such a major market share of browser space, because then they get to dictate what features are added into the web and everyone just takes it as a standard because of its prevalence.
A common example is what happened with IE in the early 2000s, where it controlled such a massive amount of market that it was essentially a monopoly and whatever Microsoft decided was what happened with the web. That was ended after legislation IIRC and the emergece of Firefox from the ashes of Netscape, followed by chrome.
Is there more to this post? Not seeing any points outside of an opening statement. Using Memmy right now, so I may be missing a big chunk of this post!
The article should link to https://pauloroger.dev/post/take-back-the-web/ -- if it doesn't, it might be an issue with the client.
Awesome, thanks for taking the time to link again!
Reading it in my browser and nope that seems to be all there is.
I see that the "Take Back the Web" text is linked to the link I mentioned on the UI at https://lemmy.world/post/1116208.
I used to use Firefox until several years ago when it became super slow and full of memory leaks that caused me to close it and restart all the time.
Chrome is so much faster.
Is Firefox a viable alternative now? I used to love it but it became unusable.
Is Firefox a viable alternative now?
Why not try it and see?
It would take literal minutes. Who got that time?
It's pretty much the opposite nowadays. Chrome has become increasingly bloated as Firefox made important changes to their rendering engine a few years ago.
Give it a try!
I use Firefox for 99% of my work and 100% of my private browsing. It is amazing to me that people I work with blindly go for Chrome because that is "the internet" in the saw way IE was "the internet" 20 years ago. I find it hard to get people to switch but I've had a couple of successes
The only thing that I do not use Firefox for is when I download stuffs from mega.nz, as somehow using Firefox to do this always resulted in huge amount of RAM being consumed, so I have to use Vivaldi for this exact kind of task. Everything else, Firefox all the way.