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If you value privacy, ditch Chrome and switch to Firefox now(www.fastcompany.com)

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With the number of people concerned about privacy, it is a wonder why chrome is even popular.

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sycamore@lemmy.world
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Oops, I switched 15 years ago,

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jflorez@sh.itjust.works
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I switch when it was Phoenix, then switch again when it was Firebird, and finally switch when it become Firefox

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sycamore@lemmy.world
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you win Firefox!

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Yendor@sh.itjust.works
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I went straight from Mozilla Navigator to Firefox 1.0.

Tabs were such a crazy new thing back then. You would show tabbed browsing to someone (rather than opening new windows) and they thought you were a wizard. IE5 didn’t have tabs, so nerds moved to Mozilla/Firefox. Then IE6 came out but still didn’t have tabs. By the time IE7 came out, I’d had tabbed browsing for 5+ years.

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gornar@lemmy.world
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Hat trick!

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sycamore@lemmy.world
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Mongostein@lemmy.ca
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Noob. I switched in 2006 - 17 years ago.

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eeltech@lemmy.world
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What took you so long?!?

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Mongostein@lemmy.ca
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I had to pee!

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LetMeEatCake@lemmy.world
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I cannot be 100% certain but I’m confident I was using it not long after the 1.0 release. That’d put me at 2004. 19 years!

Although I did briefly switch over to Chrome when it was new and fast. Then switched back when Firefox had a major optimization pass.

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Gork@lemmy.ml
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The early Chrome was crazy fast when it had none of the bloat.

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Sho@lemmy.world
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Google has a web-browser?

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Orphie Baby@lemmy.world
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10 to 15 years ago, myself. Don’t remember exactly.

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gornar@lemmy.world
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Sorry, that’s 3rd best at most, according to the data above. Sorry, I don’t make the rules!

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