That makes a lot of sense when you are looking at the two today, but Firefox is older than Chrome. So they managed to become more advanced and take all the browser marketshare in some way.
Chromium stays the best by developing new internet standards. Then big websites adopt them and Mozilla has no choice but to play catch-up if they want these sites to work well in their browser.
Chromium is the more advanced of the two, and it has the biggest user base, there is no real upside to picking Gecko apart from Google = bad.
Everyone knows how to use Chome, if you base your browser on Chromium it’s easier to get people to use it because they already know how to use Chrome.
Bro it’s a browser. They’re fairly identical to the end users it matters for.
AdBlock works better on Firefox. Firefox takes fewer resources. Firefox is open source. And that’s just off the top of my head.
Sadly, none of this matters for most of the users.
That makes a lot of sense when you are looking at the two today, but Firefox is older than Chrome. So they managed to become more advanced and take all the browser marketshare in some way.
Chrome was really fast back then. And Google has money to burn on ad campaigns.
Chome has privacy issues, but Chromium has always been a very good browser.
When Chrome came out Microsoft were the bad guys, it wasn’t hard for Google to market themselves as the better alternative to Internet Explorer.
Chromium stays the best by developing new internet standards. Then big websites adopt them and Mozilla has no choice but to play catch-up if they want these sites to work well in their browser.
Isn’t Google trying to embed DRM into webpages to avoid track blocking as we speak?
Yeah but I save 0.000097 seconds per page load. I did the math and it will give me approximately 2.3568 additional seconds to the length of my life.
I did more math and that means I’ll have time for one more fap before I leave the world behind.
May that fap satisfy your needs, my brother in Christ.
s/math/meth/g FTFY