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LOL "start" using Firefox. I've been using Firefox for half a decade. There's zero I miss about Chrome.

Rather than being smug, I’ll say awesome! The best time to start using Firefox is yesterday. The second best time is now.

IOW:

Don’t threaten to stop using Google Chrome if they do one more evil thing. Start now.

LOL half a decade.

I've been using it for more than 20 years.

I don't know why either of use loled though

LOL, I've been using it since Netscape Navigator 3.0 Gold, via Mozilla M3 (SeaMonkey tech preview), Phoenix, Firebird, and then finally Firefox :D

Me too. Too bad I had to abandon it because Mozilla seem more focused on making AI-nonsense than a browser nowadays. No, Firefox, you don’t need AI features. You do need a better UI. You do need smoother scrolling. You do need privacy focus (which automatically means you do not need AI features). You do need to feel like you belong on the platform you’re installed on and not wish everything were Linux. You do need better designers that understand UX is not just “add controls everywhere”.

I'm assuming you use Lynx now then? Because I don't think you would be using Chrome or its clone if that's where you draw the line?

I remember using lynx at school, since they only let A+ level students use the X11 GUI. And then later on using elinks which was a bit more featureful on my own servers...

Huh? What ai features? Firefox seems largely the same as it did a few years ago.

I’m not doubting they added some ai junk somewhere. But whatever they did seems very easy to ignore.

Its just an excuse people use to keep using thier beloved shiny brand.

Oh, those great days when the competition was NCSA Mosaic.

A simpler, better time. I miss it :(

Mosaic :P

I've been using it since the time it was called Netscape Navigator. Just sayin'

Loved netscape navigator! That entire suite with mail, website builder (composer?)

Shit, remember Mosaic? Gopher?

Any fellow CompuServe users around???

Some of us have been using it for two decades more or less.

Reminder that by now the Android version is also quite usable (typing this from FF). Just install Ublock origin.

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