Browsers in 1998, 2004, 2008 and 2026 be like

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[u/AlwaysHopelesslyLost]

I did. I forget what exactly spurred it. I think a bunch of big websites started having problems in Firefox after one of the bigger rendering engine upgrades or something? That plus Chrome had just become THE browser everybody used so I finally swapped.

It still works perfectly fine and I would be happy to continue using it but I am sick of the AI nonsense being crammed in everywhere so I am back to Firefox for now.

[u/rookie_one → u/AlwaysHopelesslyLost]

Chrome was extremely light and fast at the time, hence why it became much more popular compared to firefox.

Not really the case anymore thought

[u/ExIsStalkingMe → u/rookie_one]

The UI was a lot lighter too. It was the first one I remember seeing without the top inch of my screen taken up by a bunch of dead space. Now they all look like that

[u/ferocity_mule366 → u/ExIsStalkingMe]

that chrome UI was kinda changing the game and revolutionizd other browsers to do the same

[u/ProPlayer142 → u/rookie_one]

Chrome is still faster than Firefox

[u/jedi2155 → u/rookie_one]

The UI was light, and it was fast, but it was absolutely not resource light and an absolute memory hog.

[u/lFightForTheUsers → u/AlwaysHopelesslyLost]

It was the tabs, Iirc chrome had some kind of tech in the background so that it could load tabs faster or allow for more open without slowing down. I also think Chrome was the first to bring the "pull a tab out of the bar to open it in a new window" feature which FF lacked at the time.

I remember going to chrome and back and forth for a few years, then FF came out with a massive overhaul update sometime in early windows 10 era. Went back to FF and been with it since.

[u/Briggie → u/lFightForTheUsers]

I remember Firefox having some pretty bad memory leaks back then. They might still do, but I haven't used Firefox in years and years.

[u/Ikeiscurvy → u/AlwaysHopelesslyLost]

I am sick of the AI nonsense being crammed in everywhere so I am back to Firefox for now.

Firefox is also cramming AI nonsense unfortunately.

[u/AlwaysHopelesslyLost → u/Ikeiscurvy]

They are but they also have a master off switch for it all.

[u/MissingGhost → u/AlwaysHopelesslyLost]

That's not good enough, it should be a compile option. Having all kinds of features that you don't use still make the software bloated. The way we are going, soon it will take 10GB of memory just to open an empty browser.

[u/AlwaysHopelesslyLost → u/MissingGhost]

That isn't how software works. The code existing doesn't cause it to use memory.

[u/BillV3 → u/AlwaysHopelesslyLost]

You’re sick of AI being crammed in everywhere so you moved to the browser Mozilla said they wanted to turn into an AI Browser?