With the number of people concerned about privacy, it is a wonder why chrome is even popular.

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The best time to switch to Firefox was 5 years ago. The second best is today.

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Oops, I switched 15 years ago,

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I switch when it was Phoenix, then switch again when it was Firebird, and finally switch when it become Firefox

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19 points

you win Firefox!

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I went straight from Mozilla Navigator to Firefox 1.0.

Tabs were such a crazy new thing back then. You would show tabbed browsing to someone (rather than opening new windows) and they thought you were a wizard. IE5 didn’t have tabs, so nerds moved to Mozilla/Firefox. Then IE6 came out but still didn’t have tabs. By the time IE7 came out, I’d had tabbed browsing for 5+ years.

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Hat trick!

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Noob. I switched in 2006 - 17 years ago.

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What took you so long?!?

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I cannot be 100% certain but I’m confident I was using it not long after the 1.0 release. That’d put me at 2004. 19 years!

Although I did briefly switch over to Chrome when it was new and fast. Then switched back when Firefox had a major optimization pass.

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Google has a web-browser?

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10 to 15 years ago, myself. Don’t remember exactly.

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Sorry, that’s 3rd best at most, according to the data above. Sorry, I don’t make the rules!

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Funnily enough - this article is 3 years old

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I use Firefox since it’s release. It was never bad. I don’t get all the Chrome users.

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I had the crappiest of PCs in 2006 or 2007 with 768MBs of RAM running Windows XP. Funnily enough the reason I switched to Chrome back then was the immense RAM usage of Firefox compared to Chrome back then. With the big rebranding an rerelease of Firefox in 2017? 2018? I came back and haven’t looked back since.

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It has a pretty severe memory leak issue during the period where Chrome siphoned off most of its users.

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I used it since netscape navigator XD

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Does it have native dark pages. Why I use brave. Would use Firefox but it’s glaring white

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Firefox has dark mode.

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