EU browser choice rules send millions more users Firefox's way(theregister.com) |
EU browser choice rules send millions more users Firefox's way(theregister.com) |
Google has immense power and monopoly over Android phones and the search. Google can also spend practically infinite resources to develop features and force their way into standards. Those features get adopted by developers who are oblivious or ignorant or malicious or simply doing their jobs. Then lack of features reduces Firefox's adoption.
When things get a bit bigger in JIRA, Firefox's JS engine struggles with horrifying amount of JS JIRA throws at it. Same for Google Meet and Zoom.
I tried and realized Firefox has a huge power consumption penalty on my Android phones and a considerable one on my laptop. I still keep it as a secondary but it is still not there yet.
IT people in my both current and previous company prefer deploying Google Chrome. Previous one was a complete Microsoft shop, they didn't use the built-in Edge but removed it and deployed Chrome. There is quite a bit Microsoft sysadmin know-how about Chrome, less for Edge and even less so for Firefox.
If you're privacy-conscious you'd have searched or visited blogs like this[1] or privacyguides.org or privacytools.io. They all point out issues.
They are all a factor. Many people still install Chrome because the apps / websites they visit tell them so. If you used web-based engineering software, they will always recommend Chrome.
Google Docs of course works better on Chrome, intentionally or unintentionally Google will roll out more optimizations for it.
[1] https://madaidans-insecurities.github.io/firefox-chromium.ht...
Chrome is not perfect but it’s significantly lighter on the battery. Safari is the lightest on Mac but the addons suck.
Memory-wise I found both to be just as bad.