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Google has been pushing chrome on their sites for years. Firefox's drop in desktop is recent. So just marketing can't be the explanation.

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It's way more aggressive now. I have also dismissed the convert to 'youtube red' popup like 20 times now and the damn thing keeps coming up on the phone. I never expected my phone to be infested with marketing and ad popups like this :/

Some Google services don't work properly on Firefox or show annoying banners. It is just a pain. I just moved to chromium.

I've been a loyal Firefox user since the earliest couple versions. Something like 12-13 years or whatever. I like the interface more than Chrome, among a few other things about how it operates.

I can't leave Firefox open on even simple pages, without it consuming ~5% or more of the processor with one tab doing nothing. If I open numerous tabs, forget about it, Firefox will eat the processor (brand new machine, i5-7400, new Firefox install). I can leave Chrome running almost perpetually without problems with tons of tabs open. Right now I've got seven tabs open in Firefox, and it's consuming 706mb of ram, for a few stackoverflow pages and HN. I've had that resource abuse problem with Firefox essentially since the beginning, across a lot of varied PC systems.

Over the last year I've gradually stopped using Firefox because I can't stand its horrible performance any longer.

This is exactly the opposite of what I experience; Chrome eats up 6GB of memory with a couple dozen tabs open, but I can have as many and more active in Firefox on 2GB (and over 1000 tabs open but inactive – leftovers from when tab groups were removed… that was a shame). Firefox just also feels faster in general.

I am using the developer edition instead of stable, though, and there have been a lot of somewhat recent improvements; maybe that accounts for the difference.

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