Chrome took over FF because of Chrome being a default Android web browser after replacing its vanilla/AOSP browser.
Also being synonymous with “using Google”, where people thought they had to get chrome to use Google.com.
It was better than Firefox at the time. Firefox only needed to be better than IE so it has become a bit of a ram-hungry bloaty mess, then Chrome came along and was actually really quick. How the tables have turned.
Multi-process was huge. Firefox was pretty stagnant for a long time, and it took a long time to catch up.
Yep. I was very young at the time but what I remember is firefox being spoken of as kind of a “hack” to make everything web-based faster compared to IE.
Then chrome came out and firefox was completely replaced. It felt like an instant change. Anyone that knew anything about computers was using chrome.
I think that chrome is still living off its glorious past.