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   touch fluffy tail (fluffy@social.handholding.io)'s status on Wednesday, 21-Dec-2022 11:16:37 JST touch fluffy tail
   ? well done mozilla!
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     arcanicanis (arcanicanis@were.social)'s status on Wednesday, 21-Dec-2022 11:16:33 JST arcanicanis

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     • Taylan
     We also went from:
     Internet Explorer, because it was preinstalled on Windows, and Windows was the most abundant platform to access the internet,
     to:
     Google Chrome, because it's preinstalled on Android, with Android being the most abundant platform to access the internet now
     
     Chrome also rode on the wave of being "the hip new thing", being a new browser alternative to the previous options of IE, Firefox, Safari, Opera, etc.
     
     But invariably I'd chalk up part of the bulk of it being purely just a shift to mobile devices.
     
     Also, using Firefox or Chrome was reactionary to IE being poorly maintained, whereas you had so much more development capabilities in other browsers, as well as them being far more performant and customizable. There's not as much of a shove that'll push the average person to into install Firefox to replace Chrome on an Android phone, for example, as compared to using ANYTHING to replace IE.
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     Taylan (taylan@fedi.feministwiki.org)'s status on Wednesday, 21-Dec-2022 11:16:34 JST Taylan

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     @fluffy I never realized that this happened until I heard about it very recently, and don't understand why it happened either.
     
     The way it was back in the time:
     
     - If you're tech illiterate, you use IE because it's what Windows offers by default.
     - If you're moderately nerdy, you use FF or Chrome, and there's never been a really big advantage of either over the other so they were always toe to toe.
     - If you're a hipster you use Safari (Apple hipster) or Opera (non-Apple hipster).
     
     What changed? Why's everyone preferring Chrome over FF all of a sudden, and who taught all the boomers to avoid IE?
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     ink (ink8@the9thcircle.club)'s status on Wednesday, 21-Dec-2022 11:30:11 JST ink

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     • arcanicanis

     @arcanicanis@were.social web developers kinda went rogue as well 'cause maintaining their websites on IE was, as people expressed, a nightmare.
     
     so they started making websites using the full capabilities of a standard web browser, which of course worked terribly on IE and forced users to switch to literally anything else.
     
     but since Firefox was the cool new kid on the block with extensions and stuff it quickly became a new standard to keep up with.
     
     Mozilla failed to fix a few baaad issues on Firefox, however, which saw it crash before the competition.
     
     if i had to guess it was probably the performance on too many tabs opened and memory leaks when running it for too long, both of which forced you to kill the process

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