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Did you ever changed your mind about a browser?

Vanessa28

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Yeah a Browser. Not a pc or phone but a Browser. Did you ever liked a browser and swore you would never change it but later did? Or did you ever swore to not use a Browser but later did?
 

Princess Niki

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I used to use Firefox because I had macbooks to begin with now I use Chrome and I am thankful for them cuz they saved my bookmarks and I lost a computer.
 

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Chrome. It's by far the most useful, functional and stable browser. Too bad it's Google, and Google sucks farts. I don't do business with corrupt manipulative hacks. So I switched to Firefox and started using DuckDuckGo to browse.
 

~Kilza~

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I haven't. Ever since I started using Firefox that has always been my go-to browser. I've always kept Chrome as a secondary/back-up since it became available as well.
 

Ninja

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Chrome has always been good to me, 95% of the time it isn't a resource hog, but the other 5% I have to close it down completely for my laptop to function.

I used Opera or Firefox as a backup.
 

Emma

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I've drifted around. Back in the day when your choices were Internet Explorer or Firefox, the choice was obvious. Then I went with Chrome for about eight years as soon as it launched. Google better understood how to make a functional UI and efficient browser. I got tired though of their constant spying and performance issue I had (like how Chrome's stop loading button is just for show and doesn't actually stop a page from loading). And I didn't like how they were cracking down on the browser plugins making them less useful. Like, I bet you weren't aware of this, Google blocks ad-blockers now. They're mostly just a placebo on chrome, stopping them from displaying but still allowing them to load and run commands so you'll still get popups, prompts to download files, be exposed to malware infected advertising, and of course use up way more of your bandwidth.

I tried briefly to use Brave (a Chrome variant with strict ad-blocking built in). But it was buggy and didn't have plugins. So I'm back in Firefox with a fully functioning ad-block, safe from ransomware. Besides being stupid with downloading something, infected advertising is a major source of ransomware and is where most older computers get infected with it from like the hospitals you may have heard about.
 

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